The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world, representing over half of the planet's rainforests. It contains an estimated 390 billion trees across 16,000 species and is home to one in 10 known species globally. More than 30 million indigenous people rely on the Amazon's natural resources for survival. However, the rainforest is threatened by deforestation mainly for cattle pasture and agriculture. Deforestation has negative environmental impacts such as increased temperatures in Brazil and damage to the region's water supply.

1. AMAZON
Rainforest

2. OVERVIEW
• The Amazon Rainforest is the largest
rainforest in the world.
• It represents over half of the planet’s
rainforests.
• Comprises the largest and most
biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in
the world

3. Lungs of the Earth
With an estimated 390 billion individual trees
divided into 16,000 different species.
One in 10 known species in the world lives in
Amazon Rainforests.

4. MEDICINAL
PLANTS
• Scientists believe that less than half of
1%of flowering plant species have been
studied in detail for their medicinal
potential.
• It’s essential that we remember the
potential cures that lie within in the form
of medicinal plants.
• So far, this includes plants that can be
used for AIDS, cancer, diabetes, arthritis,
multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s drugs
and cures and hopefully many more in
the future.

5. PEOPLE AND
COMMUNITIES
More than 30 million people, including 350
indigenous and ethnic groups, live in the
Amazon and depend on nature for
agriculture, clothing and traditional
medicines.
Most live in large urban centres, but all
residents rely on the Amazon’s natural
bounty for food, shelter and livelihoods.

6. THREATS TO AMAZON
• Deforestation
• Forest Fire

7. DEFORESTATION IN
AMAZON
RAINFORESTS
Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforests can
be attributed to many different factors at
local, national, and international levels.
The main sources of deforestation in the
Amazon are human settlement and
development of the land.

8. CAUSES OF
DEFORESTATION
The rainforest is seen as a resource for cattle
pasture, valuable hardwoods, housing space,
farming space(especially for soybeans),
roadworks(such as highways and smaller
roads), medicines and human gain. Trees are
usually cut down illegally.

9. Impact of
deforestation on water
supply
The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
has had a significant negative impact on
Brazil’s freshwater supply, harming, among
others, the agricultural industry that has
contributed to the cleaning of the forests.

10. IMPACT OF
DEFORESTATION ON
LOCAL TEMPERATURE
In 2019, a group of scientists published
research suggested that in a “business as
usual” scenario, the deforestation of the
Amazon rainforest will rise the temperature
in Brazil by 1.45 degrees.

11. IMPACT OF
DEFORESTATION ON
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
More than one-third of the Amazon
rainforest belongs to over 4,466 formally
acknowledged Indigenous Territories. Until
2015, only 8% of Amazonian deforestation
occurred in forests inhabited by indigenous
people, while 88% occurred in less than 50%
of the Amazon area that is neither
indigenous territory nor protected area.