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  2. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]

  3. Amazon biome - Wikipedia

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    In Brazil the biome covers more than 4,100,000 square kilometres (1,600,000 sq mi) and covers all or parts of the states of Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Rondônia, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins and Mato Grosso. [7] The Amazon biome covers 49.29% of Brazil. [8] 16% of the biome is in Peru. As of 2015 about 23.4% of Peru's Amazon biome was ...

  4. Amazon Region Protected Areas Program - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA; Portuguese: Programa Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia) is a joint initiative sponsored by government and non-government agencies to expand protection of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

  5. Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge ...

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    The leaders of Norway and Germany, the largest contributors to Brazil’s Amazon Fund for sustainable development, were invited, as were counterparts from other crucial rainforest regions ...

  6. Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil ...

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    By Bruno Kelly and Jake Spring. MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends ...

  7. Brazil’s Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may ...

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    The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year, authorities said Tuesday. Amazonas state declared an environmental ...