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Amazon Rainforest
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
The Amazon Rainforest is located on the cotenant of South America and is within nine of the countries in South America, and is seven million KM squared in size (1.2 billion acres). The nations that exist around and in this massive rainforest are Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, French Guyana, and Suriname. Deforestation threatens the massive Amazon Rainforest with destruction of the ecology and ecosystems.
The rate of deforestation continues to increase at an ever faster pace with Brazil and other countries clearing the land for cattle raising and soybeans – which is devastating to the rare and many endangered species of the rainforest. In 1970 there was 4.1 million square kilometers in forest, and by 1990 there were only 3.6, and in 2000 it dropped to 3.5. Today it is down to 3.4, only 82% of what it used to be in 1970. At the current rate twenty years from now only 40% of the forest will be left, and a further twenty years at the current rate dooms it.
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