But it's such a god damn shame that we are Destroying this world all day everyday by doing this.

• More than 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced in this area, thus the name "Lungs of the Planet"
  
  
• With 2,5 million square miles, the Amazon rainforest represents 54% of the total rainforests left of the planet
  
  
• Amazon rainforest birds account for for at least one third of the world's bird species, being toucan the most popular icon
  
  
• More than half of the world's estimated ten million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical forest.
  
  
• 70% of plants found to have anticancer properites are found only in the rainforest
  
  
• The number of edible fruits found in the rainforest is estimated in 3,000. Amazon natives consume more than 1,500, but only 200 are cultivated for use today
  
  
• An estimated 90% of Amazon rainforest plants used by Amazon natives have not been studied by modern science
  
  
• In 1500 there were an estimated 6 to 9 million Amazon natives. By 1900 the number has gone down to one million lelf in Brazil.
  
  
• Today, the number is believed to be of around 250,000 Amazon natives, comprising 215 ethnic groups with 170 different languages
  
  
• There may also be fifty or so Amazon tribes living in the depths of the Amazon rainforest that have never had contact with the outside world
  
  
• An estimated number of 2,700 million acres of the rainforest are burned each year