Amazon+Rainforest

=Amazon Rain Forest=

The Amazon Rainforest is home to several unique and familiar species, whether its plants, animal or humans — this self sustaining environment still has a lot to be learned. The Amazon Rainforest is considered one of the most bio-diverse locations in the world. There are millions of scientifically identified specials which include but no limited to: insects, birds, tree, and mammals.

The forest is divided across seven different countries, one of which is Peru. The Amazon covers 13% of Peru. The forest lies within a basin of South America which allows it to have a consistent supply of run-off water. In addition to the benefits of its location in the South American basin, it receives nutrients from the Sahara desert from the winds that travel across the Atlantic Ocean.

The forest has been observed to exist for at least 55 million years and with human activity within the last 11,000 years. It's also been recently discovered that human activity has attributed to a vast majority of the vegetation loss in the Amazon Rainforest. The largest threat to the forest its self is human activity; we are deforesting it to cultivate the land for crops. The marks of deforestation are large enough that they are even visible from space.