Amazon Rainforest

• How much of South America is covered by the Amazon

  40%
• How many species of insects in the Amazon

  10 million species of insects
• What percent of species of earth does the Amazon hold

  home to 20% of all species on Earth
• What is subsistence farming?


  farmers occupy plots of the forest to grow food to survive, they clear the forest and burn it
• How much of the Amazon has been destroyed in the last 50 years

  close to 20%
• What percentage of tropical deforestation occurs in the Amazon

  over 40%
• How many new dams are planned for the Amazon

  150
• How much deforestation happened because of mining


  Nearly ten percent of all the deforestation occurring in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 and 2015 came from mining activities