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FLORA AND FAUNA OF AMAZON BASIN
- The biodiversity of the Amazon basin is absolutely simply staggering. and it is a 9th largest country in the world.
- Amazon basin is the largest of the rainforests, supporting number of plants and animals and hugely important to our own survival. It plays a critical part in stabilizing the world’s climate and regulating global and regional carbon and water cycles.
- The Amazon itself is said to be the largest in the world and at around 3,000 species of fish, 4,000 varieties of butterflies and 1,300 species of birds exist in this abundant eco-system.
- The Amazon Rainforest is also called as "The Lungs of the World" because, according to the researchers have proved that more than 20 percent of the world's oxygen supply.
- According to the researches study Amazon took sediments out to sea and found that the oldest sediments they had found were upstream of their source.
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