Amazon The largest forests in the world
The Amazon rainforest, covering much of northwestern Brazil and extending into Colombia, Peru, and other South American countries, is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity. It’s crisscrossed by thousands of rivers, including the powerful Amazon. River towns, with 19th-century architecture from rubber-boom days, include Brazil’s Manaus and Belém and Peru’s Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado.
Area: 5.5 million km²
Location: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana (France), Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
The undisputed number 1 is probably the most famous forest on earth, the South American Amazon. The forest of all forests, with its fabulous 5,500,000 km2, not only has the largest area but is also home to one in ten species existing on earth. It is the most diverse forest and has the widest range of plants and animals in the world. In total, an estimated 290 trillion trees grow in the Amazon. Animals such as jaguars, spider monkeys, toucans, sloths, and thousands of other species are among its inhabitants. Its age is a proud 55 million years, but with human influence, the Amazon has already lost 20% of its original size. That's about 800,000 km2, the equivalent of the Primorye Forest, the Burmese Rainforest, and the Valdivian Rainforest (numbers 10, 9, and 8) combined! An unbelievable 90% of it has been cleared for the livestock industry.
Life without forests is impossible and therefore it is up to us to do something about global deforestation. Even small steps can make a big difference. Donate a tree via OneTreePlanted, or lend a hand yourself and make the earth a greener and therefore more beautiful place.
OneTreePlanted is a long-standing partner of NIKIN with whom we enjoy a great collaboration. For every product sold, we work with OneTreePlanted to plant a tree in a place in the world that desperately needs it. So, for example, if you buy a Treeanie for example, the planting of a tree is automatically initiated. We also send a personal tree certificate with your order, confirming that a tree is being planted in your name.
