* The Amazon rainforest, world's largest remaining natural resource, represents 54% of the total rainforests left on Earth. *
* More than 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced from the Amazon, thus the name "Lungs of the Planet" *
* 70% of plants found to have anticancer properties are found only in the rain forest *
* There may also be fifty or so Amazon tribes living in the depths of the Amazon rain forest that have never had contact with the outside world *
* The Western Hemisphere, or the Americas as they are commonly known, is composed by North America and South America, covering an area of 8,3% of the Earth's total surface and an estimated population of around 900 million or 13,5% of the total. *
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