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In 1988 the US-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) funded the musical Yanomamo, by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, to convey what is happening to the people and their natural environment in the Amazon rainforest. [65] It tells of Yanomami tribesmen/tribeswomen living in the Amazon and has been performed by many drama groups around the world. [66]
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 ]
Animism [ 1] The Pirahã (pronounced [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) [ a] are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. [ 2]
Peruvian Amazonia ( Spanish: Amazonía del Perú ), informally known locally as the Peruvian jungle ( Spanish: selva peruana) or just the jungle ( Spanish: la selva ), is the area of the Amazon rainforest included within the country of Peru, from east of the Andes to the borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.
The Amazon biome ( Portuguese: Bioma Amazônia) contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of the Amazon basin and some adjacent areas to the north and east. The biome contains blackwater and whitewater flooded forest, lowland and montane terra firma forest, bamboo and palm forest ...
The world reacted in shock and horror after seeing photos of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in smoke and flames. The Amazon is the largest rainforest on the planet, and is often referred to as the ...
In their Aug. 11 statement, USA Gymnastics said they have submitted "time-stamped, video evidence" to the CAS that "shows Landi first stated her request to file an inquiry at the inquiry table 47 ...
Yasuní National Park ( Spanish: Parque Nacional Yasuní) is a protected area comprising roughly 10,000 km 2 (3,900 sq mi) between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Pastaza and Orellana Provinces within Amazonian Ecuador. [ 1] The national park lies within the Napo moist forests ecoregion and is primarily rain forest.