Home to 10% of All Known Species Astonishingly, the Amazon Rainforest is home to about 10% of all the known animal species in the world. Imagine a place bustling with diverse life forms ranging ...

and French Guiana – this 350-million-hectare forest is home to roughly 10% of known species on Earth. Scroll through our interactive rainforest experience and explore 50 species of the Amazon.

And that’s significant: Historically, forests remove more than 30 percent of all the carbon dioxide that we release into the atmosphere; as late as the 1990s, the Amazon rainforest was still ... that ...

Trekking through the Amazon ... to be between 10 and 20m. It’s made up of young trees that are growing quickly as they compete to reach the sunlight. In the South American rainforest you ...

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.