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What happened to the Amazon rainforest?

5 September 2019
Gianluca RiccioGianluca Riccio
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The Italian "cognitive pause" that has occupied all the media talking about the formation of the new government does not change the reality of the facts: the Amazon forest is fighting for its survival. And for ours.

Because the Amazon rainforest is the home of an incredible number of living species: animals, plants, insects and human beings who have their own world, their own history different from what we call "modern".

Here are 8 reasons why we must keep writing, talking, shouting to the world that the future depends on the Amazon Rainforest.

Terrifying grandeur

That Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world. It's so big that you can take the whole of the UK (including Ireland) and get them all in. 17 times. It is so large that it crosses several states in South America including Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil. In particular, it covers 40% of its surface.

Source of food

80% of the food we eat comes from rainforests: fruits, vegetables, nuts and beans. There they are located approx 3000 different fruits. In the "advanced West" we only use 200 of them.

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House of men

The Amazon Rainforest is home to between 400 and 500 different indigenous groups. 50 of these tribes have never had contact with the outside world.

A name with historical roots

Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana gave the Amazon its name after surviving an attack by a tribe of warrior women known as 'Icamiabas.' In Orellana they remembered the proud Amazons of Greek mythology, hence the name.

One of the largest rivers

The famous Amazon River runs through the Amazon Forest for a length of 6400km. After the Nile it is the longest in the world.

Green, which cannot be greener

The Amazon rainforest is so thick with vegetation that it takes more than 10 minutes for rain to reach the ground. Its vegetation is so dense that in many places in the forest there is always total darkness at ground level. Sunlight does not penetrate.

The most varied place there is

National Geographic notes that the Amazon is home to the largest biodiversity in the world. An ecosystem with more than 40.000 plant species, 1.300 birds, 3.000 fish, 430 mammals and 2.5 million insects.

Global regulator

The Amazon is able to stabilize the world climate. WWF reports that the rate of deforestation is closely connected with the deterioration of the climate. And here we return to the starting point: fires release billions of tons of carbon contained with difficulty (and fortunately gradually released) from vegetation into the atmosphere.



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