The Extreme Beauty of the Amazon Rainforest in 50 Stunning Photos

The Amazon Rainforest, also known as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. More than half of the forest is contained within Brazil, the rest of it in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, covering five and a half million square kilometers, or 1.4 billion acres. The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. The diversity of plant species is the highest on Earth. One in ten known species in the world lives in the Amazon Rainforest. If we want to save our planet, we have to preserve the rainforest…

Rainforest Dawn

Amazon Flower

People of Amazon

Palm Tanager in the Amazon

The Soul of the Amazon

Man On The Amazon

Amazon Morning

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Rio Amazonas

Amazon River

Light and Darkness

Amazons

The Amazon River

Amazonia

Striated Heron

Sunrise in Amazon

Amazon Lily

The Amazon

Toucan

Dusk over Amazon

Anaconda

Squirrel Monkey

A child from the Sao Felix

Leafcutter Ant

Daily Trip

Through the Fog

Laguna

Child

Masked Crimson Tanager

Butterfly

Field of Victoria Amazonica

Lily of the Amazon

Jaguar

Capped Heron

Children of Rio Amazonas

Piranha

Alligators

Ginger Torch

People of Amazon

Violet-Fronted Brilliant

Sloth

Hummingbird

After the Rain

Pink River Dolphins

Two Little Rowers

Tillandsia cyanea

Tapir

The Amazon

Giant Water Lily

Cuyabeno Amazon Rainforest