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Important facts about the area of tropical rainforests include but are not limited to the following;

• Over 750 species of trees live in these forests.
• There are over 1500 different kinds of flowering plants in the tropical rainforest.
• 125 species of mammals exists in the tropical rainforest.
• There are more than 100 kinds of reptiles.
• There are 60 amphibians.
• Countless species of insects exists.
• There are about 150 species of butterflies.

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How does the rain forest affect the earths water?
A flow of about twenty eight billions of gallon of water are known to flow out of the Amazon into the Atlantic ocean every minute.
Over nine feet of rain a year and fifty percent of the rain absorbed into the atmosphere, the affect on the worlds water supply is huge.
Deforestation affects all the positive benefits of the Amazon rainforest industries such as mining, cattle ranches and logging.