Annual Toy Drive Kicks Off Throughout County The Boone County Toy Drive is now accepting donations of new toys. Donations can be dropped of at Lebanon Fire Department Station 11 or the...
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.
The Amazon jungle is the world's largest tropical rainforest. The forest covers the basin of the Amazon, the world's second longest river. The Amazon is home to the greatest variety of plants and animals on Earth. A 1/5 of all the world's plants and birds and about 1/10 of all mammal species are found there.