AMAZON FOREST FIRE

AMAZON RAIN FOREST

The Amazon rainforest , also known as Amazonia or
the Amazon Jungle, the largest and most biodiverse tract
of tropical rainforest in the world, that covers most of
the Amazon basin of South America.
Stretches 7,000,000 km2 of which 5,500,000 km2 are
covered by the rainforest.
This region includes territory belonging to 9 nations:
 Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, Peru with
13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts
in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname
and French Guiana.
'Lungs of the earth’
Produces 20% of the earths
oxygen
The Amazon contains 1/3 of the
world's primary forests and, via the
Amazon River and its tributaries,
provides 20 %of the Earth's unfrozen
fresh water.
 Acts as a carbon sink, absorbing more CO2 than it emits while
releasing oxygen.

Vital ecosystem for climate stability.

which helps regulate worldwide global warming.

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The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s richest and most-varied biological

reservoir, containing several million species of insects, plants, birds, and
other forms of life, many still unrecorded by science.
A new plant or animal species is discovered there every two days.
And also…
There are…
a lot…
Of other…
Amazing
animals…
 WHAT IS
HAPPENING ?
 Reported 72,843 fires in Brazil
 An 80% increase in deforestation compared to last year.

 Smoke from the fires spreading all along Brazil to the

east Atlantic coast.
 9,000 fires is recorded Last week.
 Smoke has covered nearly half of the country and
neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay.
 The Amazon shrunk by 1345 square km in july
 What are the causes?
Most fires in the Amazon are caused by humans , set
either accidentally or intentionally.

Deforestation
Cattle grazers and Soybean growers
Infrastructure development
 Mining, timber and development firms
Loggers and Cattle ranchers who use a “slash and burn”
method to clear land.

99% HUMAN
MADE DISASTER
Sao Paulo –Brazil’s biggest city went blackout.
2700km away from Amazon on August 19th
THANK YOU…

-SUMI SARA JACOB