Wednesday 14 December 2016

AMAZON RAINFOREST

STUDENT´S WRITING


I´m going to talk about the Amazon rainforest because I like it, I love nature and I´m worried about it. 



The Amazon rainforest is the biggest jungle in the world, it´s 5.5 million square kilometres. It is in South America, in the Amazon river valley. 
There are nine countries with part of the Amazon: the biggest part is in Brazil 60%, in Peru 13%, then Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. 


In the middle of the Amazon valley there is a river, the Amazon, the largest and widest river in the planet Earth with 6,992 km. and it is navigable.



The Amazon rainforest is the largest and the most biodiverse in the world with 2.5 million insect species and thousands of animals: 2,200 fishes, 1,294 birds, 427 mammals, 428 amphibians, 278 reptiles, all these species are classified but many more aren´t known. There are 438,000 species of plants discovered or catalogued: the total number of tree species is 16,000. 



We can see the most poisonous animal, the Poison Dart Frog, in the Amazon. The Pygmy Marmoset is the smallest monkey and lives in the Amazon too. 



The Amazon is the 50% of the rainforest  in the planet.



SAVE THE AMAZON!



By David Marco Navarro