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=The Amazon Rainforest =

Questions:
1. **Where is the Amazon Rainforest located? The Amazon Rainforest is located in the upper section of Brazil south of the equator. of Brazil south of the equator. 2. Is it threatened? The Amazon Rainforest is being destroyed. Human have been cutting down the Amazon Rainforest for over one decade.  3. What species of animals live in the Amazon Rainforest? There are many amazing Species of animals in the Amazon Rainforest such as the Sloth, Barred leaf frog, Jaguar and the Anaconda snake. ****4. Are there any human tribes in there?** **There are alot of human tribes in the Amazon such as the Witoto tribe and the Yanomami been the biggest tribe in the Amazon.** **5. How big is the Amazon rainforest?** **6. How long is the Amazon River?** **7. ****Is the Amazon Rainforest important? The Amazon Rainforest is important. It is the biggest Forest in the whole world and it is been destroyed.  8. Why have we not discovered most of the Amazon Rainforest? Because the Yanomami tribe does not let many people in. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">. **
 * The Amazon Rainforest is over 6,000 miles long and runs down to Argentina.**
 * The Amazon River is 6,400 Kilometers long.**

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 * The Amazon Rainforest is very important. It is the largest rainforest in the world and it is being destroyed. The Amazon Rainforest is located in the upper section of Brazil south of the equator. Most of the Amazon Rainforest is undiscovered because the Yanomami tribe will not let many people in. The Amazon Rainforest is so amazing amazing due to it wonderful wildlife. **
 * There are many different amazing species of animals in the Amazon for example the Barred leaf frog, the Sloth, the Jaguar and the Anaconda snake. There are also many different Human Tribes in the Amazon Rainforest such as the Witoto Tribe and the Yanomami Tribe, been the larger Tribe in the whole of the Amazon. **

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 * The Amazon Rainforest is over 6,000 miles long and runs down to Argentina from the top of upper section of Brazil. The Amazon river is the biggest river in the world it is 6,400 Kilometers long. **

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Sceint Amazon Rainforest might have formed in the Eocene era, following the evolutionary appearance of the Angiosperm plants. ****<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Rainforest has been existence for at least 55 million years, and most of the region remained free savanna-type biomes during that time period.

The Scientists say that the Amazon Rainforest might have formed in the Eocene era, Following the evolutionary apperance of the Angiosperm plants. The Amazon has existed for at least 55 million years. **

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest is getting worse if people don't stop, by 2025 there will be no Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is being destroyed. Humans have been cutting down the habitats of the animals that live in there for more than one decade. Between 1991 and 2000, the total area forest lost in the Amazon rose from 415,000 to 587,000 km2 nobody knows how much is gone now. Most of the deforestation is becoming pasture for cattle. **

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This is an amazing rainforest due to its unusual creatures and its humungus size. Although this wonderful Rainforest would make such great places for your cattle we have to stop cutting it down if we want it to be around for the people in the future to see. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Enviromentalists are concerned about the loss of habitat and deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. Trees are going by the lot every week over 200 habitats are lost. All this means most of the animals are endangered. The enviromentalists are trying to persuade farmers to stop cutting down the Amazon and find other places to put their cattle. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">



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