Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The extinction

List of Amazon rainforest animals that suffered extinction and some who still suffer from the extinction of their species:

Amphibians
Flamenguinho
Perereca

Mammals
Wildcat
Red wolf
Ocelot
Puma
Gray bat
Jaguar
Manatee
Pampas deer
Manatee-of-Amazon (mammal)

Birds
Cardinal
Small macaw
Large macaw
Piranga macaw
Spix's Macaw
Red macaw
Seven-coloured tanager
Yellow bellied macaw
Channel-billed Toucan
Black stork
Harpy Eagle
Black-tailed Gull

Terrestrial Invertebrates
Spider-whip
Gongolo
Snail
Beetle
Beetle-of-horn
Bee
Dragonfly
Worm-white

Fish
Pirarucu

Reptiles
Camaleãozinho
Blind worm

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

How to help the Amazon rainforest?

There are some of the items for help the Amazon Rainforest:
Reduce your paper and wood consumption.
Reduce your oil consumption.
Reduce your beef consumption.
Hold businesses accountable.
Invest in rainforest communities.
Support the grassroots.

Know more about the Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon is a vast and majestic rainforest teeming with an estimated quarter of all known land species. The jaguar, the pink river dolphin, the sloth, the world's largest flower, a monkey the size of a toothbrush and a spider the size of a baseball are just a few of the species that we know about - there are many more yet to be discovered.It is also home to over 20 million people including hundreds of indigenous peoples, some of which have never been contacted by the ‘outside world’. And finally, the Amazon stores 80 to 120 billion tonnes of carbon, helping to stabilise the planet's climate.