Amazon Rainforest Research Paper

The Amazon rainforest is a moist and broadleaf forest. It’s located in South America. It covers 2.1 million square miles of land. It is on the borders of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. There are over 205 different birds species in the Aamazon rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest contains 10% of the known species in the world and over 40,000 different plant species. Humans that live in the forest are known as the native Amazonians.

Native Amazonians came into the Amazon rainforest about 12,000 years ago. They were driven away from their homes and into the Amazon rainforest because they wanted to continue their traditional way of life.

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Indigenous people have a right to live in their traditional customs and we should talk about our differences to know the history of each others culture/history. In addition Indigenous people possess an enormous body of irreplaceable information and skills when it comes to living in the amazon rainforest without destroying it. Miners used to carry canaries into the mines, so if the birds died of toxic gas the miners knew they would have to get out of there. Birds are highly sensitive to toxic gases. There is approximately 400-500 different Indigenous Amazonian tribes. About 50 of these tribes have no outside communication with the rest of the world. These people do not have their children go to a formal school, the elders teach them what they will need to know on their history and survival techniques.

Some of the scariest threats come to these tribes by people from the outside world. The Yanomami tribe is the largest tribe in the Amazon. They have over 20,000 members. Most of the tribes live off of the land and grow many different types of fruits and vegetables (bananas, passion fruit, papayas, corn, manioc and beans, last but not least the acai berry). Some of the reasons for declining populations in the Indigenous Amazon tribes are due to war, disease, oil, and

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