Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Basic Knowledge of the
Amazon Rainforest
- covers 40% of South America
- 60% of the Rainforest in in Brazil, the rest in
Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana
- Estimated 30% of all species on
Earth inhabit the Amazon
- Around 438,000 plant
species
- Indigenous people have dwindled
over 500 years from 10 million to
200,000
- 20% of the Amazon Rainforest has
already been destroyed by
deforestation
- estimated 40 years until the
Rainforest in completely destroyed
at the current rate of deforestation
- Four layers
- forest floor
- undergrowth
- canopy
- emergent layer