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The Amazon River and its thousand tributaries make up the largest and most powerful watershed on the planet. Thanks to this enormous expanse of Waters and wetlands, the Amazon rainforest, called the lung of the world, was developed over millions of years. This wonderful system is rich in biodiversity, with tens of thousands of lives of all shapes, sizes, colors and possible locomotions. Hundreds of millions of trees and other plants absorb water and then return it to the atmosphere in immense quantities of water vapor, a mega transpiration that forms the clouds, from which the vital liquid returns by passing drizzles or prolonged downpours, which partly they rush over the forest itself, with which their forests maintain a constant humidity, although they also irrigate distant places such as the Andean mountain range and the Argentine pampas. This gigantic biochemical machinery gives us an idea of ​​its importance and explains why it is called the “lung of the world”, at the same time that it worries that it could disappear in less than half a century, as many scientists affirm.

store CO2, which is fixed to their roots, trunks and leaves in the form of carbon. The plants, although they take oxygen from the air and re-enter CO2, the final balance is positive in favor of the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere. The absorption capacity is proportional to the size, density and quantity of plants and trees present in a forest.

9 countries share the largest forest on the planet

By order of territorial size – Brazil owns 60% of the total of the Amazon

The Amazon River, the key of rainforest and an entire continent

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The Amazon River and its thousand tributaries make up the largest and most powerful watershed on the planet. Thanks to this enormous expanse of waters and wetlands, the Amazon rainforest, called the lung of the world, was it grew for millions of years. This wonderful system is rich in biodiversity, with millions of lives of all shapes, sizes, colors and locomotions. The Amazonas system is an authentic cloud factory that not only irrigate the jungle itself but the entire Andean mountain range, the Argentine Pampas and many distant areas, thanks to the extensive vegetation and the strength and speed of the winds.

The river quantified

For the most part its slope is very low. Between Iquitos and the delta (3646 km) it descends just 10.6 cm. That is why in this stretch the river is very slow and the curvatures abound.

How a vegetable unit works in the rainforest

The progressive destruction of the Amazon

Destruction caused by mining

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How many trunks?

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The 12 threats that are in progress now on the Amazon jungle

1. Cutting down trees to supply the wood industry

Two aerial images, probably taken from a drone

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4. Extensive agriculture

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9. Mining

Mining arch of Venezuela – Photo: Salto del Ángel

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10. Roads that go through the rainforest

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Penetration roads in the largest rainforest on the planet

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once populated only by ancient trees, wildlife, and some 100,000 inhabitants in its most conserved sectors, was now filled with noise: the music of the new towns, the hum of the chainsaws, the bustle of shops of all kinds and the roar of powerful engines pulling the gold that hides its red earth.” From the report of Semana.com in conjunction with Interoceánica.

When the project was raised, the idea was to reconvert jungle areas into agricultural land. But it turned out that the soil of the Amazon basin was not very stable and was flooded in the rainy season, which threw the development projects by land. By the time the Brazilian government realized, the “bad” was done: the environmental consequences, such as deforestation, had not gone back. Today, the Transamazon is one of the least traveled roads on the planet … ” www.marca.com

11. Hydroelectric dams that flood and disrupt ecosystems

The study involved ecologists, engineers, economists and geologists from several universities in the United States.

12. Urbanization of the rainforest

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Consequences of deforestation

The twelve dangers that we have just seen have a common denominator: they are spaces that grow at the expense of the destruction of the forest. This is how we saw the felling of trees to satisfy timber markets, soy oil and oil palm sowing, extensive agriculture, cattle ranching, oil exploitation, pipelines, construction of roads and roads to new exploitation areas, hydroelectric dams and the urbanization. All steal spaces to the Amazon and its ecosystems through deforestation, leaving huge gaps in the world’s greatest biodiversity, with incalculable consequences. The first victims are innumerable species evicted from their habitats. Some have had to flee to other places and the less fortunate have succumbed in their attempt to find new places or adapt to them.

The second consequence is more serious and of greater encouragement: The drought in the Amazon.

Drought and desertification of the tributaries of the Amazon River

Entire rivers have dried

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The global drought, the biggest challenge we will face

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Birds of Amazon

Makaw

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Tucan

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Mammals of Amazon

Brasilia Jaguar 

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Reptiles of Amazon

Long mouth crocodile

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Fish of Amazon

Disco fish

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Insects of Amazon

Amazonian ant

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The orchids of Amazon

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