Question

Short note rainforest of amazon basin

Answer 1

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The Amazon rainforest is the largest forest. It grows in the tropical basin of the Amazon River. The forest lies in a basin drained largely by the Amazon River, with 1100 tributaries. It is a moist broadleaf forest which covers seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres).

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Answer 2

The Amazon rainforests is situated around the Amazon river basin in South America.

Explanation:

• The Amazon rainforests are the largest surviving forests in the world, situated around the Amazon river in South America.
• The rainforests covers around 1.4 billion acres of land around the Amazon river basin. It is also called as the "Lungs of the Planet" because it produces nearly more than half of the total oxygen of the earth.
• The Amazon rainforests are one of the most diverse areas on the planet sheltering around one third of the total animal and plant species of the planet.
• It is estimated that these rainforests are the home of about 2.5 million insect species, and several thousand species of plants, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds.
• The rainforests are also considered to be the major carbon reserve of the planet, which significantly controls the carbon level in our atmosphere, and hence regulates the temperature of the earth
• But this mighty rainforests are facing dangerous threats of extinction. First because of cutting of forests to convert into agricultural lands to grow rubber tress.
• It has also been cut down to convert the forests into soybean farms for rearing beef cattle. And in the year 2019, the forests has seen devastating wildfires.
• The current leadership of Brazil ( country with maximum Amazon rainforests) had shown weak responses in handling the issue of destruction of the rainforests.
• Now, it is upto Us, to support the scientific community to help to recreate forests in the damaged areas.