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The Amazon rainforest is
unparalleled in its biodiversity when compared to Africa and Asia. One in ten known species in the world live in the Amazon
Rainforest. This constitutes the largest collection of living plants and animal species in the world.
Global rainforests now cover around 2.5 million square miles (6 million square kilometers), an area about the size of the contiguous 48 United States or Australia. Rainforests continue to be destroyed at a pace exceeding 80,000 acres (32,000 hectares) per day. It is estimated that nearly 20 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions is generated by deforestation activity.
The amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by the clearing and burning of tropical forests accounts for the world's second largest source of human-driven greenhouse gas emissions. The importance of preventing the destruction of tropical rainforest's like the Amazon has therefore acquired a new level of importance.
The Amazon Rainforest represents the largest terrestrial basin of flora that coverts CO2 (Major Greenhouse Gas) into O2. If we continue to allow the Amazon Rainforest to be depleted we will further stimulate the potential impacts of Global Climate Change.
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