Some Unbelievable Facts About Amazon Forest

The Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia, is one of the world's greatest natural resources. Because its vegetation continuously recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen, it has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet". About 20% of earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.

Some Facts:

-Time is running out for the Amazon rainforest. And the fate of the 'lungs of the world' will take your breath away!

-About 20% of earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest. Today, more than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed and is gone Forever.

-While the Amazon Rainforest does cover over 2.2 million square miles of the basin, time is running out as over 80 acres are being lost every day (That's 80 football fields!) and is nearly 30000 acres a year!

-Unbelievably, over 200,000 acres of all rainforests are burned every day in the world. That is over 150 acres lost every minute of every day. Experts estimate that at the current rate of destruction, the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.

-Its going to affect Your life and without doubt, your younger relations.

-When the rain forests are gone, many species will be extinct. Since the human race is connected to other species, whatever happens to the trees and animals of the rain forests will happen to the human race.

-Does this not open your eyes to the destruction of our earth, mainly for the growth of ONE ingrediant, 'soya'?

-From when you started reading this to Now, around '1MILLION' square metres of rainforest has been cut down... Is Soya THAT important to YOU?

-You can help by spreading this Important message.