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Amazon Rainforest Research Paper

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The Amazon Rainforest is largest rainforest in the world that is developed in the tropical area of the Amazon River. Due to its enormous size, this moist broadleaf forest covers seven million square kilometers of forest that is present mostly in Brazil, and Peru, also running through minor land coverage in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. It is magnificent to think that it present over the remaining rainforest on earth and support more than 2.7 millions of different plants animals and insects. With an existent of more than 55 million years, the forest had offered us human almost everything form shelter food water and even resource that are still crucial to our present day lives. But, unlike us human,

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