Amazon Dangers
Under Brazil’s far right leader, the Amazon jungle protections keep being slashed while the forest continues to fall.
The Amazon rainforest covers much of northwestern Brazil and extends into Colombia, Peru and other South American nations. It is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity.
The Amazon is crisscrossed by thousands of rivers, including the powerful Amazon. Area: 2.124 million mi²
Location: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana