A living Amazon is vital for global stability, not least because of its role in storing carbon and regulating global climate. It is also an ecosystem in grave peril. Visit Amazon Shopping Site
Around 17% of the Amazon’s forests have already been lost, while an additional 17% are highly degraded. And its rivers and water bodies are in sharp decline. Now, accelerating environmental deterioration threatens to push the Amazon beyond an ecological tipping point, making it a net carbon source, and permanently degrading the forest ecosystem.
