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The Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of the known species in the world. The Amazon rainforest is home to 205 of the bird species in the world. There are over 40,000 different plant species and approximately 2.5 million insect species in the Amazon rainforest. Due to efforts to fight deforestation in the Amazon, rates have been reducing slightly, but it is still an issue today.
The Amazon basin (the watershed of the Amazon River) is 7,050,000 km2 in area (or about 2,500,000 miles2), and covers about 40% of South America. Of this area, approximately 5,000,000 km2 is (or was) covered by high tropical rainforest, with the remainder covered by savannah (campo) or scrubby woodland (cerrado).he Amazon basin covers significant portions of the countries of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia, though the major part of the watershed lies within Brazil. The next largest tropical watershed, that of the Congo River, at 3,690,000 km2, is only half the size of the Amazon basin.