![]() We can only prosper here if we foster a deep understanding of how to live alongside nature. ![]() Life for humans in the Amazon is intensely complex and competitive. ![]() ![]() They have also given birth to some of the most sophisticated tribal people in the world, yet where they live is no Eden.Ĭonstant incursions for logging, mining and agriculture are slowly stripping the Amazon of its natural treasures and the precious cultures that call these rainforests home. Our rainforests have absorbed so much heat and light from their equatorial surrounds and, in turn, have given us a greater abundance and diversity of life than all of our other territorial habitats combined. Plunging into the world of rainforests is like entering an arena where every available source of light is competed for by animals and plants. The world’s tropical rainforests feature nature at its most forceful and diverse. Spanning nine South American countries, this gigantic stretch of rainforest, the ‘lungs of our planet, is one of the most threatened regions of biodiversity left on our planet. It is the only place on earth where the humidity of the air has no dependence on the evaporation of seawater.
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