The Amazon Forest - South America
The Amazon The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical forest, covers approximately the size of India, including the world's largest river, the Amazon, and its tributaries. It is also called the world's lungs because it absorbs most of the world's carbon dioxide. The total area of the Amazon Basin is 75 million square kilometers. The forests cover an area of 55 lakh sq km. 16,000 species of trees, 40,000 other plant species, 2,500,000 insects, 2,200 freshwater fish species found elsewhere. 1300 species of birds, 427 mammals, 430 (water + land) species, 380 reptiles. Many more species have been counted, including electric eagles with deadly voltage, human-like fleshy branha fish, venomous arrow frogs, green anaconda mountain snakes, jaguar leopards, killer insect, Harpy Eagle, wandering spider, Giant Leopard, Bullet. Blood-sucking bats, highly venomous snakes are all there. The forest is so dense that even though it is tropical, only 1% of the sunlig