Amazon Rainforest

 

         Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. It is situated in South America and its larger part (60%) is in Brazil. It covers 6.7 million sq. Meter area. Because the rainy situation of this place the forest is called rainforest. The nickname of this place is Lungs of Earth. Twenty percent of the entire oxygen on earth is being supplied from this forest. It has been providing oxygen for approximately 40 million years.

This rainforest consists of 40000 known species of plants, among them 75% may endemic. These are only existing in this forest. Epiphytes, palms, bromeliads, ferns, orchids and many more species of plants can be seen here. Most of the medicinal plants are existing here. According to the scientists many of the plant species are not discovered yet. Some common trees like rubber, kapok, banana, cecropia, ceiba, cathedral fig and more others are being inhabited for a long period of time.

More than 3 million species of animals are living in the Amazon rainforest. Some common animals of this rainforest are jaguar, giant river otter, red howler monkey, capybara, black-capped squirrel monkey, sloth, puma, Amazonian tapir and many more. Numerous common and rare bird species are found in this forest such as macaw, harpy eagle, toucan, potoo bird, paradise tanager etc. Apart from these there are several reptiles can be seen like poison dirt frog, side necked turtle, black caiman bicolored tree frog, green anaconda and many others. A lots if insects are inhabited here like leaf cutter ant, pink toe tarantulas, blue morpho butterfly Brazilian wandering spider scorpions etc.

        So it can be seen easily that this amazon rainforest is affecting the ecosystem of our earth spontaneously. But in the year this forest got into a major threat. A massive fire broke out throughout the jungle. This fire increased 23% in the year 2020. Many tress were damaged due to this fire and several animals died. The environmentalists of the whole world were very much worried that, if the rainforest fire was not stopped then there could be a major oxygen crisis occurred on earth. But due to the rainy nature of this area and with the help of all the government agencies this fire was controlled and the ecosystem of earth was saved.