ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Amazon is a vast biome that spans eight rapidly developing countries-Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname-and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Amazon rainforest is located in South America. How big is the Amazon rainforest? The Amazon basin is roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States. The forest itself covered roughly 634 million hectares in 2020, of which about 529 million hectares was classified as primary forest.
Detailed explanation-3: -Amazon basin: 6.74 million km2 Amazon biome: 6.70 million km2; spans the borders of eight countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, plus the French Overseas Territory of Guiana.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest intact forest. It is home to more than 24 million people in Brazil alone, including hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples belonging to 180 different groups.