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Many American elementary teachers use the book in their classes. [9] Students have put on thousands of plays and musicals based on the book to educate their parents and communities about the importance of saving the rainforest. The Great Kapok Tree received a Charlotte Award from the New York State Reading Association. [10]
The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is at least 40,000 different kinds of plants, 427 kinds of mammals, 1,300 kinds of birds, 378 kinds of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, and around 3,000 freshwater fish are living in Amazon.
G. Galbalcyrhynchus; Galbula; Giant cowbird; Gilded barbet; Glittering-throated emerald; Golden-crowned spadebill; Golden-green woodpecker; Golden-winged parakeet
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 ]
Birds migrate to the Amazon rainforest from the North or South. Amazon birds are threatened by deforestation since they primarily reside in the treetops. [2] At its current rate of destruction, the rainforest will be gone in forty years. [3] Human encroachment also negatively affects the habitat of many Amazonian birds.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... List of plants of the Amazon rainforest of Brazil; N. Negro–Branco moist forests; P. Peruvian Amazonia;
The black-capped squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) is a species of New-World monkey native to the upper Amazon basin in Bolivia, western Brazil and eastern Peru. [3] [4] They weigh between 365 and 1,135 g (13 and 40 oz) and measure, from the head to the base of the tail, between 225 and 370 mm (9 and 15 in). [5]