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How large is the Amazon Rainforest?

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• World Wide Fund for Nature - Amazon rainforest
• Pennsylvania State University - College of Earth and Mineral Sciences - The Amazon Rainforest
• Nature - Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s
• Amazon Rainforest - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)

The Amazon Rainforest stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the tree line of the Andes in the west. The forest widens from a 200-mile (320-km) front along the Atlantic to a belt 1,200 miles (1,900 km) wide at the Andean foothills. Brazil holds approximately 60 percent of the Amazon within its borders.

The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several million species of insects , plants , birds , and other forms of life , many still unrecorded by science . The luxuriant vegetation encompasses a wide variety of trees. Major wildlife includes jaguars , manatees , tapirs , capybaras and other rodents , and several types of monkeys .

Brazilians have settled large portions of the Amazon, clearing the land for lumbering , grazing, and agriculture . Between 1970 and 2016, Brazilian Amazon forest cover declined from some 1,583,000 square miles to about 1,283,000 square miles. However, conservation slowed forest loss to roughly 0.1–0.2 percent per year between 2008 and 2016.

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Amazon Rainforest , large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). Comprising about 40 percent of Brazil ’s total area, it is bounded by the Guiana Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, the Brazilian central plateau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

A brief treatment of the Amazon Rainforest follows. For full treatment, see South America: Amazon River basin .

Amazonia is the largest river basin in the world, and its forest stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the tree line of the Andes in the west. The forest widens from a 200-mile (320-km) front along the Atlantic to a belt 1,200 miles (1,900 km) wide where the lowlands meet the Andean foothills. The immense extent and great continuity of this rainforest is a reflection of the high rainfall , high humidity , and monotonously high temperatures that prevail in the region.

The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several million species of insects , plants , birds , and other forms of life , many still unrecorded by science . The luxuriant vegetation encompasses a wide variety of trees , including many species of myrtle , laurel , palm , and acacia , as well as rosewood , Brazil nut , and rubber tree. Excellent timber is furnished by the mahogany and the Amazonian cedar. Major wildlife includes jaguar , manatee , tapir , red deer , capybara and many other types of rodents , and several types of monkeys .

In the 20th century, Brazil’s rapidly growing population settled major areas of the Amazon Rainforest. The size of the Amazon forest shrank dramatically as a result of settlers’ clearance of the land to obtain lumber and to create grazing pastures and farmland. Brazil holds approximately 60 percent of the Amazon basin within its borders, and some 1,583,000 square miles (4,100,000 square km) of this was covered by forests in 1970. The amount of forest cover declined to some 1,283,000 square miles (3,323,000 square km) by 2016, about 81 percent of the area that had been covered by forests in 1970. In the 1990s the Brazilian government and various international bodies began efforts to protect parts of the forest from human encroachment, exploitation, deforestation , and other forms of destruction. Although Brazil’s Amazon continues to lose forest cover, the pace of this loss declined from roughly 0.4 percent per year during the 1980s and ’90s to roughly 0.1–0.2 percent per year between 2008 and 2016. However, some 75,000 fires occurred in the Brazilian Amazon during the first half of 2019 (an increase of 85 percent over 2018), largely due to encouragement from Brazilian Pres. Jair Bolsonaro , a strong proponent of tree clearing.

In 2007 Ecuador initiated a unique plan to preserve a portion of the forest within its borders, which lies in Yasuní National Park (established 1979), one of the world’s most biodiverse regions: the Ecuadoran government agreed to forgo development of heavy oil deposits (worth an estimated $7.2 billion) beneath the Yasuní rainforest if other countries and private donors contributed half of the deposits’ value to a UN-administered trust fund for Ecuador. In 2013, however, Ecuador abandoned the plan, after only $6.5 million had been raised by the end of 2012. By 2016 the state oil company Petroecuador had begun to drill and extract petroleum from the park.

Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change

Join Gisele Bundchen when she meets with one of Brazil’s top climate scientists to discuss the complexity of the Amazon rainforest and its connection to Earth’s atmosphere.

Anthropology, Geography

High on a tower overlooking the lush Amazon canopy, Gisele Bundchen and Brazilian climate scientist Antonio Nobre talk about the importance of the rainforest and the impact of cutting down its trees.

As Nobre explains, the rainforest is not only home to an incredible diversity of species, it also has a critical cooling effect on the planet because its trees channel heat high into the atmosphere. In addition, forests absorb and store carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere—CO 2 that is released back into the atmosphere when trees are cut and burned.

Nobre warns that if deforestation continues at current levels, we are headed for disaster. The Amazon region could become drier and drier, unable to support healthy habitats or croplands.

Find more of this story in the “Fueling the Fire” episode of the National Geographic Channel’s Years of Living Dangerously series.

Transcript (English)

- Growing up in Southern Brazil, my five sisters and I ate meat pretty much every day. It's just part of the culture here. Per capita, Brazilians are one of the top consumers of beef on the planet. Now, with the world's growing appetite for beef, Brazil has also become a major exporter and is aiming to increase its market share, partly by selling to the US, the world's biggest consumer of beef, and to China, where demand for beef has grown 25% in just 10 years. I understand the need to develop and grow, but does that have to come at the expense of the rainforest and the climate? The Amazon Rainforest is about the same size as the continental United States. One-fifth of the world's fresh water runs through it, and it is home to more species of animals and plants than anywhere on Earth. The Amazon represents more than half of the remaining rainforests on the planet. This forest is so vast, but it is not indestructible. To find out what's at stake, I'm going to talk to one of Brazil's top climate scientist, Dr. Antonio Nobre. So Antonio, tell us a little bit about this amazing green carpet of heaven over here.

- Well, most people don't have the opportunity to come from the top of the forest. If you see all this many shades of green as you see here, it's because biodiversity is the essence of this type of forest. Every species of trees has thousands of species of bugs, and also if you get a leaf of one of the species, and you look to the microbes that is sitting on the top of leaf, you find millions of species, millions, and this is all below our radar screen, so to speak, because we don't realize, it's invisible. And the trees are shooting water from the ground, groundwater up high in the sky, and this goes up into the atmosphere and releases the heat out there, and this radiates to space. And this is very important as a mechanism to cool the planet. They're like air conditioners. Open air conditioning, that's what the forest is.

- So in other words, if we lose all these trees, we are losing the air conditioning that cools off the whole planet.

- Not only that.

- Not only that?

- No. The trees are soaking up carbon, you know the pollution that we produce, like carbon dioxide? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Burning gasoline in our cars, you release carbon dioxide in the air, or burning coal, and the trees use carbon dioxide as a raw material.

- So the trees are storing all this carbon, so if you come and cut it down and burn it out, does that mean that all that carbon goes up in the air?

- Absolutely. Yeah.

- What would happen if this forest was gone?

- When the forest is destroyed, climate changes, and then forest that's left is damaged as well. And then the forest grows drier and drier and eventually catch fire. So in the extreme, the whole area becomes a desert. And that's what is in store if we deforest. So we have to quit deforestation yesterday, not 2020 or '30. And there is no plan C. You know, you have plan A. Plan A is business as usual. Keep plundering with all the resources and using as if it were infinite. Plan B is what many people are attempting, changing the matrix of energy and using clean sources, stop eating too much meat, and replanting forests If that doesn't work, then we go to plan C. What's plan C? I have no idea.

- Going to another planet.

- But we can't do that.

- We don't have another planet, so either we work with plan B or we're-

- Basically, yeah. We're done, and so plan B has to work. It has to work.

- People have to take accountability, 'cause it can't just be like, I'm leaving over here and whatever happens over there, who cares?

- It's not my problem.

- It's not my problem, because it is everyone's problem.

- Yes. People should wake up. It's like when you're in the midst of an unfolding disaster, what do you do? You panic? No. You move it. Move, move, move, move. That's what we need to do.

Transcripción (Español)

- El año en que vivimos en peligro.

- Cuando era niña en el sur de Brasil, mis cinco hermanas y yo comíamos carne casi todos los días. Es parte de la cultura aquí. Per cápita, los brasileños son uno de los mayores consumidores de carne de res en el planeta. Ahora, con el creciente apetito mundial por la carne de res, Brasil también se ha convertido en un importante exportador y está buscando aumentar su participación en el mercado, en parte vendiendo a los Estados Unidos, el mayor consumidor de carne de res del mundo, y a China, donde la demanda de carne de res ha crecido un 25 % en tan solo 10 años. Entiendo la necesidad de desarrollarse y crecer, pero ¿tiene que ser a expensas de la selva tropical y el clima? La selva amazónica tiene casi el mismo tamaño que los Estados Unidos continentales. Una quinta parte del agua dulce del mundo fluye a través de ella. Y es hogar de más especies de animales y plantas que cualquier otro lugar en la Tierra. El Amazonas representa más de la mitad de las selvas tropicales restantes en el planeta. Estado Mato Grosso, Brasil Esta selva es tan vasta, pero no es indestructible. Para descubrir lo que está en juego, voy a hablar con uno de los principales científicos climáticos de Brasil, el Dr. Antonio Nobre. Antonio, cuéntanos un poco acerca de esta increíble alfombra verde de cielo que tenemos aquí.

- Bueno, la mayoría de las personas no tienen la oportunidad de venir hasta la cima de la selva. Si ves todos los diferentes tonos de verde como estos aquí, es porque la biodiversidad es la esencia de este tipo de selva. Cada especie de árboles tiene miles de especies de insectos, y también si tomas una hoja de una de las especies, y miras a los microbios en la parte superior de la hoja, encuentras millones de especies, millones, y todo esto queda por debajo de nuestro radar, porque no nos damos cuenta, es invisible. Y los árboles están extrayendo agua del subsuelo, hasta lo alto en el cielo, y esto sube a la atmósfera y libera el calor allí, y esto se irradia al espacio. Este es un mecanismo muy importante para enfriar el planeta. Son como aires acondicionados. Aire acondicionado al aire libre, eso es el bosque.

- En otras palabras, si perdemos todos estos árboles, estamos perdiendo el aire acondicionado que enfría todo el planeta.

- No solo eso.

- ¿No solo eso?

- No. Los árboles están absorbiendo carbono, ¿la contaminación que producimos, como el dióxido de carbono?

- Al quemar gasolina en los autos, se libera dióxido de carbono al aire, o quemando carbón, y los árboles usan el dióxido de carbono como materia prima.

- Entonces los árboles están almacenando todo este carbono, así que si lo cortas y lo quemas, ¿eso significa que todo ese carbono sube al aire?

- Absolutamente. Sí.

- ¿Qué pasaría si este bosque desapareciera?

- Cuando el bosque es destruido, el clima cambia, y luego el bosque que queda también se daña. Luego el bosque se vuelve cada vez más seco y eventualmente se incendia. En caso extremo, toda el área se convierte en un desierto. Eso es lo que nos espera si deforestamos. Así que tenemos que dejar de deforestar desde ayer, no en 2020 o 2030. No hay un plan C. Tienes un plan A. El plan A es seguir como siempre. Continuar saqueando todos los recursos y usarlos como si fueran infinitos. El plan B es lo que muchos están intentando, cambiar la matriz de energía y usar fuentes limpias, dejar de comer demasiada carne y reforestar bosques. Si eso no funciona, entonces pasamos al plan C. ¿Cuál es el plan C?

- No tengo idea.

- Ir a otro planeta.

- Pero no podemos hacer eso.

- No tenemos otro planeta, así que o trabajamos con el plan B o estamos-

- Acabados.

- Básicamente, sí. Estamos acabados, así que el plan B tiene que funcionar. Tiene que funcionar.

- Las personas deben asumir responsabilidad, porque no puedes nada más pensar, yo vivo aquí y lo que suceda por allá, ¿a quién le importa?

- A mí qué.

- No es mi problema, porque es un problema de todos.

- Sí. La gente debería despertar. Es como cuando estás en medio de un desastre en desarrollo, ¿qué haces? ¿Entrar en pánico? No. Lo mueves. Que se mueva. Eso es lo que necesitamos hacer.

The Amazon rain forest absorbs one-fourth of the CO2 absorbed by all the land on Earth. The amount absorbed today, however, is 30% less than it was in the 1990s because of deforestation. A major motive for deforestation is cattle ranching. China, the United States, and other countries have created a consumer demand for beef, so clearing land for cattle ranching can be profitable—even if it’s illegal. The demand for pastureland, as well as cropland for food such as soybeans, makes it difficult to protect forest resources.

Many countries are making progress in the effort to stop deforestation. Countries in South America and Southeast Asia, as well as China, have taken steps that have helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the destruction of forests by one-fourth over the past 15 years.

Brazil continues to make impressive strides in reducing its impact on climate change. In the past two decades, its CO2 emissions have dropped more than any other country. Destruction of the rain forest in Brazil has decreased from about 19,943 square kilometers (7,700 square miles) per year in the late 1990s to about 5,180 square kilometers (2,000 square miles) per year now. Moving forward, the major challenge will be fighting illegal deforestation.

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AMAZON TOUR: Amazon Rainforest Slideshow

40+ pictures and maps from the Amazon rainforest

START HERE The Amazon The Amazon rainforest is located in South America. It is named after the Amazon River, which is the largest river in the world. The Amazon rainforest includes parts of 8 countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as French Guiana, which is a department of France. The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest. More than half the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil. The Amazon rainforest is believed to contain more species than any other ecosystem in the world. As much as a third of the planet's land-based species are thought to live in the Amazon region. While some of the most famous animals in the Amazon rainforest are large: Jaguar - the largest cat in the Americas Tapir Harpy eagle - the largest raptor in the world Macaws Poison dart frogs Anaconda Most are very tiny. The Amazon rainforest is also home to indigenous people, some of whom live in tribes. Traditional indigenous people have great knowledge of the forest, including plants and animals. Shaman, or traditional medicine-men, use plants to heal people. But shaman are disappearing as the Amazon rainforest is cut down. There are other reasons the Amazon is important. Trees and other plants in the Amazon absorb carbon dioxide as they grow, helping fight climate change. The Amazon creates large amounts of rainfall, which provides water for agriculture and electrity generation. The Amazon influences global weather patterns. But as the Amazon rainforest is cut down, these benefits are lost. About 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has been destroyed since 1970. The main reason for deforestation is agriculture. People cut down the Amazon rainforest to raise cattle and plant crops like soybeans. The Amazon rainforest is also logged for timber. Fire is a big problem in the Amazon, too. Usually fires are set by people who want to clear rainforest for farms and ranches. Warmer ocean temperatures in the Atlantic can cause bad droughts in the Amazon, which make fires much worse. In 2005 and 2010, the Amazon rainforest had the worst drought ever recorded. Giant rivers dried up and millions of acres of forest burned. But recently there has also been some good news for the Amazon. Since 2004, the deforestation rate has fallen by a lot in Brazil. There are several reasons. The government has set up more parks to protect rainforests. The government is also using satellites to monitor the Amazon. This has improved enforcement of environmental laws and people who deforest have been punished. Environmentalists have put pressure on companies not to cut down rainforests. Indigenous people have protected rainforest in their territories. Now other countries like Peru and Ecuador are starting to follow Brazil. At the same time countries like Norway, Germany, Britain, France, and the United States are trying to help by providing money and technology to reduce deforestation. Still a lot must still be done to ensure the Amazon rainforest is around for kids in the future. There are things you can do to help. Tell your friends and parents about why the Amazon is important and what is happening to it. Be sure to recycle and reduce energy use. Try to produce as little garbage as possible. Ask questions about the products you and your family buys. Do these products harm the environment? Join an organization that is working to protect the Amazon. If we all work together, the Amazon can be saved. This tour was created by Rhett A. Butler, the founder of mongabay.com

LEARNING TOOL

Local and global effects of deforestation in the amazon rainforest.

Students analyze a map to identify and describe multiple landscapes in the Amazon rainforest, the organisms that inhabit those landscapes, and the role of the forest in the water cycle and nutrient cycle. Then they construct a scientific argument for the effects of deforestation on the local ecosystem and the water and nutrient cycles.

Geography, Human Geography

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Preparation

• Materials You Provide: Pencils
• Physical Space: Classroom
• Setup: Students will need to be in participant structures that allow for whole class discussion as well as small group work. A space that allows students to move freely between these structures is needed.
• Grouping : Large-group instruction
• Other Notes: This activity is intended to be conducted in three, 50-minute class periods: Day 1—students explore the map and construct knowledge about the water and nutrient cycles and the organisms that live in different landscapes of the forest; Day 2—students construct arguments; Day 3—students present arguments.
• map reading skills
• ability to select evidence from maps and text that supports a claim
• ability to obtain, evaluate, and communicate information from media and text resources

Rainforests are disappearing at an alarmingly fast pace, largely due to human development over the past few centuries. Once covering 14% of land on Earth, rainforests now make up only 6%. Since 1947, the total area of tropical rainforests has likely been reduced by more than half, to about 6.2 to 7.8 million square kilometers (3 million square miles). Many biologists expect rainforests will lose 5-10% of their species each decade. Rampant  deforestation  could cause many important rainforest habitats to disappear completely within the next hundred years. Throughout the Amazon, mining and logging operations clear cut to build roads and dig mines. The Amazon is also threatened by massive hydroelectric power projects, where dams flood acres of land. Development is encroaching on rainforest habitats from all sides.

More than 20% of the world’s oxygen is produced in the rainforest. The rainforest is also a carbon sink, which means it helps to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. With rapid deforestation, it has been estimated that 20% of the Amazon rainforest has disappeared in the last 50 years, which has already led to detrimental effects to biodiversity and climate change.

There are many species of plants and animals that live in the Amazon rainforest and are endangered or threatened, including primates such as the spider monkey and red-handed howler monkey. When large trees are removed, the large canopy that provided shelter, food, or nesting for some of these species disappears, resulting in relocation and possible fragmentation of some populations. Changes made to the ecosystem affect all life that lives there, but for the endangered or threatened populations, these changes could challenge their survival.

Students will:

• use a map to identify the areas of habitat loss in the Amazon rainforest due to deforestation
• use a map to identify landscapes about the role of the rainforest in maintaining the water and nutrient cycles
• use a map to construct knowledge about the role of the rainforest in maintaining the water and nutrient cycles
• construct a scientific argument that includes a claim, multiple pieces of evidence from a map, and scientific reasoning for the effects of deforestation on the water and nutrient cycles and the plants and animals within the local ecosystem

Teaching Approach: Learning-for-use

Teaching Method: Cooperative learning

Skills Summary

This activity targets the following skills:

• Information Literacy
• Communication and Collaboration
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Environmental Literacy
• Global Awareness
• Understanding
• Acquiring Geographic Information
• Analyzing Geographic Information
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

1.   Activate students’ prior knowledge about the local and global environmental effects of deforestation.

Introduce the activity with a discussion about students’ local area and the organisms that live there. Ask students to brainstorm what roles trees might play in the forest. Then have students brainstorm consequences to the plants and animals that inhabit the local ecosystem if all the trees were removed. Introduce the term deforestation and share that deforestation is of major concern in the Amazon rainforest. Ask the guiding question: How does deforestation in the Amazon rainforest affect the water cycle , nutrient cycle, and plant and animal life? Facilitate a whole-class discussion around the Habitat Loss inset map with a focus on Deforestation on the Amazonia: The Human Impact side of the map. Explain to students that they will explore the layers of forest and different organisms that live there along with the role trees play in the nutrient and water cycles to understand the effects of deforestation.

2. Construct knowledge about the role of trees in the Amazon ecosystem.

Distribute the map Amazonia: Vital and Fragile and the worksheet Role of Trees in the Amazon. Have students use the map to explore different types of vegetation, the landscapes of the forest and how they provide different habitats for the organisms that live there, and the role trees play in the water and nutrient cycles. Ask students to complete Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the worksheet.

3. Construct an evidence-based argument for limiting deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Divide students into small groups and distribute a copy of the worksheet Constructing an Evidence-Based Argument, to each small group. Direct groups to construct an evidence-based argument for the need to limit deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Distribute the Evidence-Based Argument about Protecting the Trees in the Amazon Rainforest Rubric and discuss the rubric criteria as a class. Explain to students that they should use their work from the completed worksheet, Role of Trees in the Amazon, to help identify the evidence they need to support their claim(s).

4. Have students present their arguments.

Have small groups share their arguments about the importance of limiting deforestation in the Amazon rainforest with the class. Conclude with a whole-class discussion reflecting on the potential loss of plants and animals in the Amazon rainforest and the potential changes to the water and nutrient cycles due to deforestation. To wrap up the activity, ask: What is deforestation? What are the effects of deforestation to the plants and animals in the Amazon rainforest? How would the water and nutrient cycle be affected by deforestation? 

Alternative Assessment

Collect evidence-based arguments from small groups and use the provided rubric to assess groups’ final arguments.

Use the provided answer key to check students’ completed Role of Trees in the Amazon worksheets.

Extending the Learning

• Have students discuss how the different type of water (black, clear, white), described in the Birth of a River section of Amazonia: Vital and Fragile, influences the types of organisms that live there.
• Have students think about the following question: What does the rainforest do for us—even if we don’t live there? Remind students that the Amazon rainforest is a carbon sink. The Amazon rainforest plays a crucial role in keeping carbon out of our atmosphere, as it naturally sequesters about 28% of the atmospheric carbon emitted by the burning of fossil fuels elsewhere. But, it can only remain a carbon sink as long as it absorbs more carbon dioxide than it releases. Ask students to think about and discuss what would happen if there were not enough trees to absorb carbon. Ask: Where would the carbon go? (If a large number of trees are removed, we will experience more global warming.)

Tips & Modifications

• Tip: The Amazonia: The Human Impact map contains many layers of information. It may be helpful to read through some of the heads and summaries as a class and discuss what information is likely to be contained in that component of the map.
• Modification: This activity works best in small groups. Cooperative learning benefits advanced learners and struggling readers. Assign groups so that advanced students are grouped with struggling readers.
• Modification: To ensure that everyone participates in group work, assign or allow students to choose roles according to their strengths (e.g., recorder, facilitator, speaker, computer driver).

Connections to National Standards, Principles, and Practices

IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts

• Standard 7: Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and nonprint texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.

National Geography Standards

• Standard 1 : How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information
• Standard 14 : How human actions modify the physical environment
• Standard 15 : How physical systems affect human systems
• Standard 4 : The physical and human characteristics of places

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.2: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
• Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, RH.6-8.7
• Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6-12: Craft and Structure, RST.6-8.4
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration, SL.6.1
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration, SL.7.3
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration, SL.8.2
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration, SL.8.3
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration, SL.6.3
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas, SL.7.4
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration, SL.7.1
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration, SL.7.2
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas, SL.6.4
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration, SL.8.1.
• Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas, SL.8.4
• Writing Standards 6-8: Text Types and Purposes, WHST.6-8.1C
• Writing Standards 6-8: Text Types and Purposes, WHST.6-8.1B.

Next Generation Science Standards

• MS. Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics: MS-LS2-4. Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

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What is a rainforest?

Rainforests are very dense

(crowded), warm , wet

forests. They are a living

place for millions of plants

and animals. ��

Where is it?

• The Amazon rainforest is located in South America in parts of Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

How big is it?

• Over 2,123,562 square miles!
• Equal to the size of the continental United States!

The Amazon River

• The Amazon River runs through the heart of the rainforest.
• At 4,007 miles it is the 2nd longest river in the world.
• BUT, by amount of water… it is the world’s #1.

The Amazon River is an important part of Brazil’s economy… allowing for easy trade and transportation around the country.

Biodiversity

Even though the Amazon rainforest only takes up 3.5% of the Earth’s land it is home to one in ten (10%) of all the known species in the world! 

2.5 million insects 40,000 plants

2,200 fish 1,294 birds

427 mammals 378 reptiles

428 amphibians

The largest collection of species in the world! That’s…

Rainforest Ecosystem

At different layers of the Amazon rainforest different species live and interact.

Indigenous People

Over 500,000 people in about 200 different ORIGINAL tribes live traditional lives in the Amazon rainforest

Benefits of the Amazon Rainforest

• 20% of the world’s oxygen is produced by the trees of the Amazon
• Currently, 121 prescription drugs (medicine) currently sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources
• 70% of the plants identified as having anti-cancer characteristics by the US National Cancer Institute are found only in the tropical rainforest

The periwinkle plant helps make one of the most powerful cancer fighting medicines.

Foods of the Amazon Rainforest

• At least 80% of the developed world's food diet originated in the tropical rainforest.
• Fruits like avocados, coconuts, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, bananas, guavas, pineapples, mangos and tomatoes;
• Vegetables including corn, potatoes, rice, winter squash and yams;
• Spices like black pepper, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, sugar cane, turmeric, coffee and vanilla
• Nuts including Brazil nuts and cashews.

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The Amazon is our planet’s greatest life reserve and our world’s largest tropical rainforest.

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Probably no other place on Earth is more critical for human survival than the Amazon. Nearly the size of the continental United States, the Amazon spans nine countries (Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname), but 60% of it lies in Brazil.

The Amazon rainforest is the largest remaining tropical forest on our planet. It is home to:

• 1/3 of the world’s species;
• 1/4 of the world’s freshwater;
• 1/5 of the world’s forests;
• 48 billion tons of carbon dioxide in its trees;
• 200 indigenous and traditional communities.

The Brazilian Amazon is also home to 21 million people (the population of London, New York and Los Angeles combined), including 200 indigenous communities.

While the Amazon rainforest is one of the most important places on Earth, it is also one of the most threatened.

Brazil has already lost 20% of its rainforest to deforestation, making the country one of world’s biggest contributors to greenhouse gases and global climate change.

The Nature Conservancy is working with a diverse array of partners to ensure a sustainable future for people and nature in the Amazon

What the Conservancy Is Doing

The Conservancy works on four main focus areas in the Amazon:

• Smart infrastructure: Roads, farms, dams—development is happening throughout Brazil, including the Amazon rainforest. The Nature Conservancy is working with partners to guide sustainable development in places like the Tapajos River, one of the Amazon’s largest and most diverse tributaries.
• Sustainable farming: Brazil is the world’s second largest beef producer and grows 1/3 of the world’s soy. How will they meet growing demands for food and also protect the world’s largest rainforest? The Conservancy is working with farmers, ranchers, companies, local communities and others to improve agricultural and ranching practices and transform food production systems.
• Indigenous communities: For centuries, tribes have been an integral part of the Amazon rainforest. Indigenous territories occupy 22%—more than 300 million acres—of the Amazon, including many of its best-preserved areas. The Nature Conservancy believes that one of the most effective ways to achieve lasting positive outcomes for nature and people is to partner with indigenous peoples and local communities on shared conservation goals.
• Climate change and deforestation: The Conservancy is working across Brazil with many partners to reduce—and nearly stop—deforestation. We are working with government to better monitor deforestation and implement laws to reduce it, and we are working with corporations to support these efforts and influence market demand.

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The Nature Conservancy is working with farmers to restore deforested land in the Amazon rainforest by planting cocoa trees. This is good for the forest and good for the farmer, who can still make a living.

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• A tour through one of the most beautiful and exciting places in the world!
• A tropical rainforest is a forest that has many trees, a very warm climate and plenty of different wild life!
• Rainforests can be found in many places on the globe, most located near the equator. The largest rainforest of them all is the Amazon Rainforest!
• The Amazon Rainforest is almost always raining and can receive up to 80 inches of rainfall a year!
• The weather is very humid with temperatures resting between 75 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. (Summer weather)
• Those that live in the rainforest depend on the environment to survive. They use nature to help with food, shelter and medicines.
• Kids in the rainforest have different hobbies than you. The kids play outside in the forest and the rivers and streams. They dont watch TV or play video games, but do many of the same things you do. The kids help their families with chores and go to school.
• At an early age, kids learn how to fish, hunt and collect materials and food that are found in the forest.
• The rainforest has many trees. Trees help produce oxygen to the rest of the world. Humans and animals need oxygen to survive. Since there are so many trees in the rainforest, this environment is very important to life.
• The trees provide shelter to a majority of the animals living in the rainforest. Some of these animals are endangered and are close to becoming extinct.
• Sections of the rainforest are disappearing everyday. This is called deforestation. Humans are cutting down areas for the use of lumber, clearing land for new farms or for road construction.
• Sadly, a part of the rainforest the size of New Jersey is cut down each day!
• The plants and animals that live in the areas that are cut down eventually die or must move to find a new home.
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THE AMAZON RAINFOREST. THE AMAZON RIVER. INTRODUCTION.

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THE AMAZON RIVER

INTRODUCTION • The Amazon Rainforest represents more than half of the planet's remaining rainforests, it is the world’s largest rainforest and majority of the species can be found in this tropical rainforest.The rainforest covers territory belonging to nine south-American countries. Brazil has the majority with 60% of the forest followed by Peru with 13%, and with smaller areas in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. • Visits to the Amazon normally involve staying in jungle (camping). Activities vary for every one, but mainly involve walks in the jungle to discover the flora and fauna and motorized canoe trips along the rivers. You may also get to visit villages inhabited by local tribes.

Tips on planning your wildlife vacation. • The safes way to go around your wildlife vacation is to go with a tour, many companies such as the World Wildlife Foundation will be able to plan an exceptional wildlife tours to the Amazon. They will help you to plan an organized tour to the beautiful landsacpe of amazon rainforest. most tours include mainly trips through the rainforest, they also include your sleeping accommodations and food. Most tours are very accommodating and allow you to choose the right amount of activities of your interest. They usually also include some down time, allowing you to see other sights in the city where you're staying. Also a good reason to go on a tour is that you are likely to get a guide who really knows what they're doing, where there going and is capable of putting together a fabulous tour that you'll really enjoy. • You can also Make your own plan and find a guide when you get there. Most major towns bordering with the Amazon rainforest will have knowledgeable guides who can give you a fabulous tour for far cheaper than a tour group can. Also if you hire you own guide when you get there you won't have to accommodate other people’s plans in your plan. • Don't go in to the forest alone. If you're not familiar with the area it's safest to use a tour group or a local guide, Because the rainforest is such a infinite environment and it's easy for someone new to the area to get lost. And it is not easy for someone to find you if that happens. So make sure that you have a guide that is known to the area with you whether it is a local guide or the head of a tour. • If going with a tour tell others what you're doing and where you're going. Always take some one with you if you are going any where in the city and It doesn’t matter where you are going.

Wildlife that you may come across: • Macaws • Jaguar • Piranha • Frogs • Toucan • Anaconda

Be sure to bring the following When you visit the Amazon: • Camera • Journal • Extra clothing • Water (you may not find safe water in the rain forest) • Energy bars • First aid kit (especially band aids, ibuprofen, Neosporin) • Boots (be sure to wear them at all times) • Mosquito repellent • Mosquito net

SEPECIFIC PLACES IN Manaus, Brazil • Amazon River: The Amazon River is the world's largest river if one measure volume of water it hold is as much as all of the next 10 largest rivers in the world collectively. The Amazon flows Peruvian Andean Mountains into the Atlantic (4007 miles). Approximately pouring 8 trillion gallons of water into the ocean every day. It is also the worlds second longest river. The Amazon River holds 20% of all of the fresh water on the planet. At the point where Amazon river and the Atlantic meet is about 120 miles in width, and its has an average depth is of 50 ft. species such as the rare pink dolphin and a range of fishes inhabit the great waters of the Amazon river. • Meeting of the Waters. The meeting of the waters is natural happening caused from the meeting of dark waters of the Rio Negro and the clay waters of Rio Solimoeswhich forms the Amazon River.

Health and safety • Get a complete set of vaccinations before you travel to the Amazon rainforest. • Travel Guide recommends vaccinations for a host of common diseases including malaria, yellow fever, meningitis, hepatitis, rabies and dengue. • Consume only bottled water and clean food. • Avoid drinking tap water or using ice made from tap water. • Wear pants and a long sleeve shirt in the jungle to protect your skin from insects bites. • Wear water-proof boots when hiking in the Amazon. • Travel with a professional guide. • Never approach any wildlife. • The best way to see wildlife from a safe distance is to take a guided tour of a national park or nature reserve. • Use an insect repellent and sleep with a mosquito net to avoid bites and stings.

Warnings • Pay immediate medical attention if you feel ill or suffer any injuries (The warm climate of the jungle may causes infection to the most literal injuries) • Don't swim in rivers or lakes without verifying that water is safe. • When it comes to exotic flora and fauna never touch them (it's best to look because the Amazon is home to countless plants and animals that can be dangerous to humans)

EXPEDITIONS & ACTIVITIES GENERALLY INCLUDE: • Cultural Visits To Local Villages • Swim in the Amazon River • Jungle Survival Skill Training • Canoeing Trips • Canopy Walks • Rainforest Camping • Piranha Fishing • Anaconda Holding

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This is a series of seven short lessons and activities on the Amazon Rainforest including powerpoints and resources. This unit is aimed at students in Primary School (age 7-11) and has been put together for parents who are looking for something educational whilst their children learning from home.

• Lesson 1: An introduction to the Amazon Rainforest
• Lesson 2: Layers of the Tropical Rainforest
• Lesson 3: Animals in the Rainforest
• Lesson 4: People in the Rainforest
• Lesson 5: Making maps of the Rainforest
• Lesson 6: Food in the Amazon Rainforest
• Lesson 7: Fairtrade in the Amazon Rainforest

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