AMAZON FOREST/JUNGLE!
Commonly known as the Amazon jungle in English, it is a vast and extensive forest covering an area of about 6 million square kilometers in Brazil. It is a wonderful place as an oxygen producer with a distinct value around the world. It reduces carbon dioxide and is a wonderful sanctuary for the fauna. It is even home to a variety of tribes.
✦✦✦ People started settling around this forest 11,000 years ago today.
***Located in South America, this forest is owned by nine countries. The most places are in Brazil (70 percent), followed by Peru (13 percent)! There are also Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guinea, Suriname, French Guiana.
***TheAmazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. It is called the 'Lung of the Earth' because of its abundance of plants.
***About 25 percent of the world's pharmaceutical plants come from the Amazon rainforest.
***In this forest, only 1% of the total amount of medicine that scientists have tested for medicine, the remaining 99% of the trees have not been tested yet. Who knows, the remaining 99% of the trees may have some new disease Treatment
***Where people around the world enjoy only 200 varieties of fruit, the inhabitants of the Amazon enjoy 2,000 different varieties of fruit.
✦✦✦ Experts estimate that there are more than a thousand different species of living things per square km.
***The average number of plants per square km weighs 91,000 tons.
Incredible but true, this forest is home to two thousand species of birds and almost the same number of animals in this forest. Ok
✦✦✦ 3,000 species of fish live in the Amazon wetlands.
There are 1.3 lakh species of animals that have no vertebrates. শুধু Only 2.5 million species of insects live. ত Home to 40,000 species of exotic plants.
✦✦✦ Amazon water lily is considered to be the largest water lily in the world. They can grow up to 6 feet. However, its weight is very low compared to the length.
✦✦✦ Occasionally there are so many water lilies growing in a reservoir or stagnant water in the Amazon that the shuffler is shaped like a brown floor. On which a small child can walk without hesitation.
The Amazon is called the ‘Lung of the Earth’. This is because it alone supplies 20% of the total oxygen produced on Earth.
***The current area of the Amazon is 2.6 million square kilometers. What was 6 million square kilometers before. Deforestation and deforestation have reduced its size so much today. 1/3 (one third) of the world's plants are found in the Amazon forest. Places equal to the size of a football field are being destroyed every second in the Amazon for deforestation and mining.
✦✦✦ One class of bamboo can grow up to 9 inches a day here.
✦✦✦ Plants are planted so densely that it takes about 10 minutes for a drop of rainwater to reach the ground from the top of the largest tree (let's be clear, it falls smaller than the tallest tree, thus slowly coming to the ground). So much so that maybe a drop of water has to reach the ground by crossing the leaves of about 60 trees.)
***The 4 sq km area of Amazon can have 1500 different species of flowering plants, 650 species of trees, 400 species of birds, and 150 species of butterflies!
10 Amazon Rainforest Plants
G10 Amazon Rainforest Plantsiant Water Lily, Victoria Amazonica.
Heliconia, Heliconia latispatha.
Cacao, Theobroma cacao.
Passion flower, Passiflora edulis.
Coffee Plant, Coffea arabica.
Monkey Brush Vines, Combretum rotundifolium.
Orchid, Orchidaceae.
Types of animals
Some of the animals that live in the Amazon Rainforest include jaguars, sloths, river dolphins, macaws, anacondas, glass frogs, and poison dart frogs. One in ten known species in the world lives in the Amazon Rainforest as do one in five known bird species.
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