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marisa bauer

Rainforest Brazil - 0 views

  • Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
  • Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
  • Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
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  • Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
  • BrazilRainforest Biomes         Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest. Biodiversity of the Atlantic Rainforest is particularly high because it comprises 7 ecosystems with up to 5 altitudinal zones (see biomap). It is considered one of the top 5 hotspots in the world and comprises the second largest biosphere reserve on Earth. About 600 of Brazil's 900 conservation units are to be found in the Atlantic Rainforest. It comprises four World Heritage Sites. #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;} #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;} #flickr_badge_wrapper {} #flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;}
  • Brazil Eco Adventure ToursRainforest - Hiking & Biking - Wildlife BrazilRainforest Biomes         Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
  • Brazil Eco Adventure ToursRainforest - Hiking & Biking - Wildlife BrazilRainforest Biomes         Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
  • Brazil Eco Adventure ToursRainforest - Hiking & Biking - Wildlife BrazilRainforest Biomes         Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
  • Brazil Eco Adventure ToursRainforest - Hiking & Biking - Wildlife BrazilRainforest Biomes         Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
  • Brazil Eco Adventure ToursRainforest - Hiking & Biking - Wildlife BrazilRainforest Biomes         Brazil has two different rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). While the Amazon is a flat tropical inland rainforest with large river systems, the Atlantic Rainforest is a moutainous tropical and subtropical coastal rainforest.
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    this gives some information about the rainforest.
Fei Zhang

AMAZON RAINFOREST ANIMALS - 0 views

    • Fei Zhang
       
      This animals are only mostly found in the amazon rainforest, most of them they cannot be found any other place around the world.
  • Capybara:
  • Toucan:
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  • Macaw:
  • Amazon Pink River Dolphin:
  • Electric Eel:
  • Piranha:
  • Black Caiman:
  • Anaconda:
  • Jaguar:
  • Poison Arrow Frog:
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    Here is a website of rare animals in the rainforest
Fei Zhang

Rainforests of Brazil-An Environmental Status Report - 1 views

  • Brazil holds about one-third of the world's remaining rainforests
    • Andrew Kelly
       
      Brazil holds about 1/3 of the world's rainforests
    • carlos ortiz
       
      Brazil rain forest has the longitude of a total surface area of 4,005,082
    • Fei Zhang
       
      They had cut down about 34660square kilometers of the Amazon Rainforest in 5 years of time
  • 56,000 described species of plants, 1,700 species of birds, 695 amphibians, 578 mammals, and 651 reptiles.
    • Andrew Kelly
       
      Brazil's rainforests have more then 56,000 plants, 1,700 birds, 695 amphibians, 578 mammals, and 651 reptiles
    • Liliana Villalobos
       
      It seems that many animals live there! Huge amount of birds!
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  • Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
    • Andrew Kelly
       
      Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
    • marisa bauer
       
      about by 2050 the rainforest will be completely lost.
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    Brazil holds about one-third of the world's remaining rainforests, including a majority of the Amazon rainfores
Fei Zhang

Rainforest facts - Amazon Village Jungle Lodge - 0 views

  • The Amazon is simply the world's greatest bio-system
  • It is one of the longest rivers in the world
  • 6,259km/3,903mi and 6,712km/4,195mi long
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  • 2,500 tree species and 30,000 plant species
paola lopez

The Amazon Rainforest - 0 views

  • google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth. The basin -- roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States -- covers some 40% of the South American continent and includes parts of eight South American countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as French Guiana, a department of France.
  • the world's largest river
  • largest rainforest on Earth.
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  • second longest river in the world after the Nile.
oscar galvez

Amazon Rainforest - 0 views

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    "About 20% of earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest. "
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    20% of the worlds oxygen is produces in the amzon rainforest
Ye Eun Kim

Amazon Conservation - 0 views

    • Ye Eun Kim
       
      What can be done to save the Amazon rainforest in Brazil?? Well, this site tells you all abou it!!! A few points on how to save the rainforest are: -Expand protection areas. -Law Enforcements -Create land policy
Jason Quijada

Amazon basin - 0 views

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    Over 30% of the flowing river in the amazon is over floodplains.
mario gordillo

Brazil Rainforest - 0 views

  • The Brazil rainforest represents over half of the worlds remaining rainforests.
    • Jennifer Garcia
       
      What will happen when this is gone?
  • The area better known as Amazonia covers an area of seven million square kilometers, with 5.5 million square kilometers under forest cover.
    • mario gordillo
       
      the area is better known as Amazonia and covers 7000,000 square kilometrers.
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    The Brazil Rainforest is a part of the Amazon rain forest
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    the Brazil rainforest represents over a half of the wolrd remaining rainforest
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    "Amazon Rainforest is a habitat to about 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, and almost 2000 birds and mammals."
Jennifer Garcia

Amazon Rainforest - 1 views

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    Jason Andrew and ma jose's group
mario gordillo

Where are the Rainforests? - 0 views

    • mario gordillo
       
      did you know that 1/5 of all the world plants and 1/10 of all mamal species are found there In the Amazon
sigi ochoa

Amazon Rainforest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

    • sigi ochoa
       
      this webpage has very good info about the amozon rainforest.
mario gordillo

Rainforest Facts - 2 views

    • marisa bauer
       
      this is a very interesting fact website.
  • once covered 14%
  • now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
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  • one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second
  • Nearly half of
  • 50,000 species a year.
  • 37 plant,
  • losing 137 plant,
  • animal and insect species
  • plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed
    • Ye Eun Kim
       
      Intresting facts about rainforests in brazil
    • sigi ochoa
       
      this page will give you present facts and predictions made by some scientists.
  • One hectare (2.47 acres) may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants.
    • mario gordillo
       
      one hectare of Amazon,s (2.47 acres)may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants
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    this is a website wich give lots of bulletpoints and facts, if you need good information read it.
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    A very interesting web site about the uses of the rainforest.
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    The environmental group Greenpeace said it was the first time Brazil had accepted a link between global warming and preserving the rainforest.
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    Rainforest Facts-Very interesting!
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    Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation.
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    this page has excellent facts
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    Experts also estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
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    The real solution to saving the rainforest is to make its inhabitants see the forest and the trees by creating a consumer demand and consumer markets for these sustainable rainforest products . . .
Diego Hidalgo

Atlantic Forest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

    • Diego Hidalgo
       
      The coastal restingas are low forests which grow on stabilized coastal dunes.
    • Jason Quijada
       
      The amazon river is almost half the country of Brazil
Andrea Nieto

Brazil: Rainforest Under Seige - 0 views

  • 4 million SqKm,
  • home to hundreds of thousands of animal and plant species
  • 3.5% of the overall Earth's surface
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  • 50% of the world's living species
  • 2 to 30 million species
  • 120 species of trees
  • 250,000 indigenous people
  • home to some
  • In the last decade as much as 12% of the original forest cover of the Amazon has been destroyed.
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    how many species of animals, plants and trees there are in the rainforest.
Ye Eun Kim

Rainforests - Video clips and movies of the Rainforest - 0 views

    • Ye Eun Kim
       
      Check out these videos about the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and other rainforests in other countries too!
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