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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 rainforest â which defined biogeographically includes the rainforest in the Guianas, which technically are outside the Amazon Basin â covers 7.8-8.2 million sq km (3-3.2 million sq mi), of which just over 80 percent is forested. The Amazon River is by far the world's largest river by volume.