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 rainforest is also referred to as the âLungs of the Planet' because it produces more than 20% of the world's oxygen. There are approximately 10 million species of animals, plants and insects known to man and more than half of them call the rainforest home.f the Amazon rainforest was a country, it would rank 9th in size. The nine nations that have the Amazon rainforest in their borders are: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.