Heyyyy Everyone!
Well i've just finished with my trip at the Amazon Rainforest. As soon as i arrived, i was straight off to explore the forest with my tour group. Our leader was a great guy, he taught us all so much on rainforests, not just the AMAZON RAINFORESTS but rainforests in general. i learnt many different things that i will share later on in this post. After the tour i went back to my room and relaxed, i was tired and needed to lay back. I fell asleep :). When i woke up, it was time for dinnner, i was STARVING. mannn. i chucked together a quick meal and back to bed i was, the next morning was an early start, i didnt have any plans so i just relaxed around the resort thing and yer, i met some friends and had a great time. When it was time to leave, i really didn't want to, i had really enjoyed this part of my trip.
Anyway, this is what i learnt i the tour i went on:
- One and a half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.
- Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners.
- Nearly half of the world's species of plants and animals will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.
- There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.
- The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru. If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world.
- The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen.
Visiting the Amazon Rainforest, taught me a huge lesson about the environment =] 
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