Amazon Rainforest Facts – 100 Facts About the Amazon Rainforest

Interesting Facts About the Amazon Rainforest

One and a half acres of rainforest land is lost every second.

Norway donated 1 billion US$ to help save the Amazon rainforest in 2008.

More than 120 drugs come from plant derived sources of the Amazon rainforest.

Amazon rainforest has over 390 billion trees with 16,000 different species.

The Yanomani tribe is the largest tribe in the Amazon rainforest with 20,000 people.

Amazon rainforest is bigger than all the other rainforests combined.

Iquitos, Peru is the largest city in the world that is not accessible by road but only by river and air. It is located in the Amazon.

One acre of the Amazon rainforest can have 750 species of trees and 1,500 species of higher plants.

Less than 1% of the Amazon rainforest plants have been studied properly for their medicinal values.

More than 80% of the world’s diet comes from tropical rainforest.