Brazilian Beauty: The Threatened Atlantic Forest

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Brazilian Beauty: The Threatened Atlantic Forest,
April 25, 2011,
By Tim Hirsch, OurAmazinePlanet Contributor,
Live Science,

"It's the most threatened rainforest in Brazil, a global biodiversity hotspot, and contains around one in 12 of all species on the planet. We must be talking about the Amazon, right? Wrong. It's the Atlantic Forest, which used to run in a continuous strip along the 2,000 miles of Brazil's eastern seaboard, up the steep coastal mountain slopes and, in places, far into the interior, reaching parts of Paraguay and northern Argentina."