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Exploring the Glorious Amazon Rainforest

Fulfilling a childhood dream, I finally made it to the Amazon rainforest, a vast, trackless, virtually unspoiled region in Brazil. Bisected by rivers and streams and speckled with lakes, it’s a gigantic greenhouse of unimaginable richness and diversity, containing one-tenth of the world’s plants and animal species. Comprising 36 percent of Brazil’s territory, the Amazon […]