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  2. Pernambuco coastal forests - Wikipedia

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    The Pernambuco coastal forests occupy an 80 km-wide strip along the Atlantic coast of northeastern Brazil in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas.The forests extend from near sea level to 600–800 metres (2,000–2,600 ft) in elevation, on the windward slopes of the Borborema Plateau.

  3. 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 ]

  4. Wildlife of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil has 55,000 recorded plant species, the highest number of any country. [3] About 30% of these species are endemic to Brazil. [8] The Atlantic Forest region is home to tropical and subtropical moist forests, tropical dry forests, tropical savannas, and mangrove forests. The Pantanal region is a wetland, and home to a known 3,500 species of ...

  5. Tropical rainforest - Wikipedia

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    The moisture from the forests is important to the rainfall in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina [45] Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest region was one of the main reason that cause the severe Drought of 2014–2015 in Brazil [46] [47] For the last three decades, the amount of carbon absorbed by the world's intact tropical forests has fallen ...

  6. Maranhão Babaçu forests - Wikipedia

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    The Maranhão Babaçu forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of north-central Brazil. The forests form a transition between the equatorial forests of the Amazon biome to the west and the drier savannas and xeric shrublands to the south and east.

  7. Bahia coastal forests - Wikipedia

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    The Bahia coastal forests occupy a belt approximately 150 km (93 mi) wide along the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil, in the states of Bahia and Espírito Santo.The Itapicuru River forms the northern boundary of the ecoregion, which extends south to near the Itapemirim River.

  8. Sweet Baby Marmoset Saved From Forest Fire in Brazil ... - AOL

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    In the video, one rescuer can be seen cradling a tiny baby marmoset, a type of tree monkey native to the region. ... They live in the tree canopies of tropical forests like the ones in Brazil ...

  9. Fauna of the Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    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.