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The vast area of A mazonas is the habitat of thousands of species of insects, fish, birds, reptiles and mammals , which are suffering the ravages of fires that have spread, especially in Brazil, during the last weeks.
Without an exact figure, monkeys, snakes, sloths and other animals have died suffocated by the flames and smoke of the fires that have devoured thousands of green hectares, according to firefighters statements to the local press.
The Amazon extends over 7.4 million square kilometers, equivalent to 5.0 percent of the Earth’s surface and almost 25 percent of the American continent. 60 percent of the jungle is in Brazil.
Shared by nine nations of South America , the world’s largest rainforest contains in addition to animals, some 30,000 species of vascular plants, many with nutritional and medicinal qualities.
The llamas in Brazil have been consuming the flora and fauna of several areas of the Amazon for three weeks: jaguars, Amazonian piranhas, vipers, banana spiders, lizards, glass and gold frogs, crocodiles, alligators, anacondas, ants, eels and monkeys live under threat .
Researchers point out that this emergency is the worst of its kind in the last seven years and could end wildlife , even with species declared endangered.
Photographs of affected animals have traveled around the world through social networks, one of them, that of a man holding a thirsty armadillo in the midst of devastation.
The environmental crisis in the Amazon crossed borders and became the subject of international interest this week, when the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) reported more than 72 thousand sources of fire, a record so far this year.
Courtesy of aristeguinoticias.com
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