Amazon Rainforest - The Largest Forest in the World

Amazon Rainforest - The Largest Forest in the World
By: C.M.Shorter
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The Amazon Rainforest is not only the largest forest in the world - it is often called the Lungs of the World. This evergreen woodland Rainforest infrastructure, distinguished by a continuous leaf canopy interwoven into to tropical forest layers, covers over 3.7 million square miles. Rainforests are one of Earth's oldest continuous ecosystems and play a significant part in the health of our global environment by digesting and converting carbon dioxide into oxygen. Rainforests have a very small cumulative percentage of overall topography worldwide, yet they hold the highest number of plant and animal species in the world by far. Tropical Rainforests are home to an estimated 50 to 70 million different unique life organisms.

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