Amazon rain forest

Occupying much of Brazil and Peru, and also parts of Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana, and Venezuela, the Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest drainage system. The Amazon Basin supports the world’s largest rainforest, which accounts for more than half the total volume of rainforests in the world.

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Bright colour of the bird against the strong green give a great, clear contrast.

Rain Forest, MIlford Track, New Zealand

Blue Morpho butterflies in Amazon rainforest

Although they can be found in a wide range of environments, one of the places in which boa constrictors live is the Amazon rain forest. Separated into four layers -- from the forest floor right up to the emergent layer -- the Amazon provides many types of habitat, which is why it has a lot of ...

Each year, the world loses around 5.5 million hectares of tropical forest—an area approximately the size of Costa Rica—and deforestation accounts for nearly 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, comparable to the emissions from all of the cars and trucks on Earth combined. Protecting forests is critical to achieving global climate commitment of keeping global warming under 2 degrees Celsius. That’s why we're proud to support business & community leaders to develop more…

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