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    The Amazon – a threatened paradise

    May 07, 2021 4 minutes
    EDITED BY SANDRA VISSER

    WITH an area of more than 5,5 million km², the Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth. It covers about 40% of the South

    American continent and stretches across nine countries – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Guyana,

    Suriname and French Guiana. There are

    35 million people living in this rainforest, of which 9% are indigenous groups.

    UNIQUE WILDLIFE

    About 10% of all the known plant and animal species on is found in this region, as well as . The Amazon Rainforest is home to about 427 mammal species, 1 300 bird species, 378 reptile species and more than 400 amphibian species. The and contains the .

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