Amazon Rainforest Facts – 100 Facts About the Amazon Rainforest

Facts About the Amazon Rainforest

There is no bridge built on the Amazon river to cross it.

Amazonian butterflies drink turtle tears for essential mineral sodium that is scant in the western Amazon.

Amazon rainforest is a tropical rainforest with an average temperature of 79 degree F. It is very humid and there is large difference in temperature between day and night.

Amazon rainforest canopy is very thick, so thick that the floor is in permanent darkness, and when it rains it takes about 10 minutes for the water to reach the ground.

Amazon rainforest holds 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, it is three or four times the amount released into the atmosphere each year.

Bioprospecting the term given to the act of going into the forest to find plants for medicine, food and cosmetics.

Euterpe precatoria is the most common tree in the Amazon rainforest. It is pine tree that have edible fruits..

More types of ants can be found in just one tree in the Amazon than you can in some whole countries.

The leaves of the giant lily pads in the Amazon river can grow up to 6 feet in diameter and can support up to 100 pounds without breaking.

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued majorly for the worth of its timber, oil resources, and mining by governments and corporations.