Do you think the Amazon is important to us why?

Not just for food, water, wood and medicines, but to help stabilise the climate—150-200 billion tons of carbon is stored in the Amazon rainforest. The trees in the Amazon also release 20 billion tonnes of water into the atmosphere per day, playing a critical role in global and regional carbon and water cycles.



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The Amazon River is used to help transport people. Indigenous peoples make use of canoes and rafts and can travel along the river to different locations for various purposes, one of which would be to trade. The Amazon River is also important for scientific research.

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This huge river system is very important to animals, plants, and people. The Amazon River is a major source of fresh water for South America. The water is used by the animals to live in, and many of the plants of the rainforest depend on the river water to survive.

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