Amazon Rain Forest - AJ

• The Amazon rainforest is a moist, broadleaf forest.
• It covers most of the Amazon Basin in South America. The basin is 2.7 million square miles while the Amazon covers 2.1 million square miles of it. If the Amazon rainforest was a country, it would rank 9th in size.
• The nine nations that have the Amazon rainforest in their borders are: Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
• The Amazon rainforest accounts for more than half of the entire world's remaining rainforests.
• The Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of the known species in the world.
• The Amazon rainforest is home to 205 of the bird species in the world.
• There are over 40,000 different plant species and approximately 2.5 million insect species in the Amazon rainforest.
• There are approximately 10 million species of animals, plants and insects known to man and more than half of them call the rainforest home.