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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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It is just as 'rational' for you and I to care about the Amazon Rain Forests as a new BMW.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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They are realizing that rain forests such as the Amazon are essential to our lives.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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To the eastern foothills of the Andes mountain range lies the Amazon deep tropical rain forests who's rivers are fed and previously formed through the melting snow from the volcanoes populating the area.
The Indian tribes of the Amazon basin have long been known for carving animals from the lightweight balsa wood that is plentiful in their area of the rain forest.
It is made up of the highly forested Cordillera Oriental of the Andes and low-lying tropical plains, covered by rain forests and by the Amazon River and its tributaries.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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When most people think of extinction, they seem to think of the Amazon rain forests and the plight of animals in places like Africa.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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The last two days of our Inca Moto Adventure were to take us down to the other side of the Andes into the rain forests of the Amazon basin.
The Amazon Tropical Rain Forest Jungle Peru's rain forest zone is large than the seven countries of Central America combined nearly sixty percent of the countries landmass.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Conservation of the Amazon Rain Forests The rainforests are essential for life on earth, and destroying them could result in an ecological imbalance and the loss of many va.
Cutting down large forests such as the Amazon rain forest lets the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise.
The Amazon basin is a huge area containing 70% of the world’s remaining rain forests in an area about one-third the size of the United States.
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