Deporte Y Salud

1. Read the following questions and find their answers on the links provided
a. What three geographical and biological reasons about the importance of protecting and saving the Amazon are outlinedin the Greenpeace website?
The Amazon is a vast and majestic rainforest teeming with an estimated quarter of all known land species. The jaguar, the pink river dolphin, the sloth, the world's largestflower, a monkey the size of a toothbrush and a spider the size of a baseball are just a few of the species that we know about - there are many more yet to be discovered.
It is also home to over 20million people including hundreds of indigenous peoples, some of which have never been contacted by the ‘outside world’.
And finally, the Amazon stores 80 to 120 billion tones of carbon, helping tostabilize the planet's climate.
b. How much water does the Amazon produce? The Amazon produces 2/3 of the planet's fresh water by vapor-transpiration of the trees and shelters 1/3 ofpluvial forest of the planet.
c. Why is it called the Mother of Rivers?
The Amazon River is the lifeblood of this forest. The 'Mother River', as it is called over there, stretches over 7,000 km and issupplied by over 1,100 principal affluents.
d. Why is the biodiversity of the Amazon unique and the richest of the world?
To maintain our climatic balance

e. Why is protecting trees in theAmazon so important?

f. Mention some causes and consequences of deforestation in the Amazon Man is destroying the last primary forests still existing. By devastating every year enormous regionsof tropical forest, we are depriving the planet of a vital lung, necessary to maintain our climatic balance. We are condemning vast areas to endure loss of fertile soil and grave floods.

We aredepriving thousand of local communities from their original habitat in which they lived since millenniums. We are eradicating every day a piece of the worlds most concentrated flora and fauna and we...