Deforestation In The Amazon Rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is the world's largest tropical rainforest, most of it located in Brazil About 10% of the world's species are found in the Amazon The Amazon is home to 40,000 species of plants and some of these plants are used for making new medication and vaccines, such as for cancer The Amazon Rainforest is often considered "The Lungs Of The Earth" However, around 17%% of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost due to deforestation in the past 50 years It is estimated that 80% of amazon rainforest deforestation is Despite the Brazilian government's efforts at curbing deforestation rates, huge tracts of the famous Amazon rainforest are getting lost due to illegal logging and farming Recently, ESA compared a Landsat5 image from 1985 with a Copernicus Sentinel2 image from 16 to show how vegetation has been cleared away for logging, farming and other
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