Quick facts

• The Amazon biome is 2 times the size of India
• The Amazon river is over 6600 km long
• It harbors 10% of the world´s known species
• It is home to 350 ethnic groups
• 17% of the forest cover has been lost in the last 50 years

Fonte: http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/amazon/about_the _amazon/

Who Helps the Amazon Rainforest

There are many institutions that help the amazon rainforest, some of them fight for the animals, others fight for the plants.
If you are interested, click on the links below to see the sites of these institutions

• AMPA
• INPA
• Instituto Mamirauá
• Instituto Chico Mendes
• SOS Mata Atlântica
• Greenpeace
• WWF in the Amazon