Amazon rainforest (water)

• population

  200 million#
• oxygen output

  28 %
• interception percentage

  75 %
• endangered species

  the amazonian manatee

  1 of 500 mammalian species
• brazilian amazon

  released 20 % more carbon than it has absorbed over the last 10 years and deforesting 20 % more could release up to 90 billion tons of co2
• how much water does it release into the atmosphere a day

  20 billion tons
• brazilian forest code


  farmers have to keep 50 to 80 % of their land as forest