One in ten known species on Earth lives in the Amazon. Its forests contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, the release of even a portion of which would accelerate global warming significantly. 30 million people living in the Amazon depend on its resources and services – not to mention many millions more living as far away as North America and Europe, but still within the Amazon’s far-reaching climatic influence.
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One in ten known species on Earth lives on the Amazon. 30 million people lives there and they depend on the resources. http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/amazon/
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the Amazon ecosystem is fragile and imperiled.
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economy, higher demand for increasingly limited natural resources
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Brazil forest law again under fire
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Brazil’s most important environmental legislation
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chopping block again
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Problems in the Amazon
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Forests burn, soils dwindle and people suffer
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ressures afflicting the region grow in intensit
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