Very few people I know are unafraid of spiders, multi-legged bugs, tarantulas, and hairy, non-human life. The Amazon has been home to many unusual bits of living things to those of us who do not make it home. Amazon’s forests, which store vast amounts of carbon and have provided many new species used in pharmaceuticals. In the past five decades, settlers, farmers, and loggers have destroyed at least 17 percent of the Amazon rain forest — an area twice the size of Spain.
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There is a very pretty...if you don't mind scary, furry things, tarantula that is bluish-purple with pink toes. They shed their hairy skin as they grow out of it...a rather interesting sight!
It is claimed by the World Wildlife Fund that a new species is found in the last decade, every three days, in the Amazon. In the lush rainforests of the Amazon, scientists have discovered a blue-fanged bird-eating spider, a black and blue-colored poison dart frog, a pink river dolphin and a camouflaged anaconda. These and thousands of other species were discovered in the Amazon between 1999 and 2009. To see the WWF report,
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Mankind seems to be giving away too much of our planet out of greed to the already fat cats. I'd like to think our planet is self-renewal life our self-cleaning ovens but, somehow, logic hasn't gotten me there.
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