What is the Amazon?
The Amazon is a very big forest.
It rains a lot there.
The forest is very wet.
The rain is good for the plants and trees in the forest.
Many plants and trees
grow in the Amazon forest.
Many animals live in the Amazon forest
- Monkeys
- Parrots
- Snakes
People also live in the
Amazon forest.
They live in different groups.
Many of the people
have always lived there.
And their parents lived there.
And their grandparents.
And their great-grandparents.
The people in the Amazon forest are special.
They live together with nature.
They protect the forest.
But some other people do things that damage the forest.
Why the Amazon is important
The Amazon forest is very big.
It is one of the biggest forests in the world.
It is very important for the world.
We need air to breathe.
The trees in the Amazon forest give us that air.
The trees also make our air clean.
That is why the Amazon forest is important for
- Nature
- Animals and plants
- People
We protect the Amazon forest.
Then the forest can stay healthy.
That is good for all of us.
The Amazon is in danger
The Amazon forest is in big danger.
There is gold in the Amazon forest.
And there is oil in the Amazon forest.
Many people want the gold and oil.
They can get lots of money
from the gold and oil.
Big companies want the gold and oil, too.
They want to get money from the gold and oil.
They go into the Amazon forest.
They take the gold and oil.
They cut down trees to get the gold and oil.
That makes the forest dry out.
That harms the forest.
That is very bad.
The Amazon forest needs to be healthy.
It needs to stay wet, not dry.
We want to help the Amazon forest.
We want to save the forest.
We protect the Amazon
We work with Greenpeace.
Green – like nature.
And peace – no harm.
Greenpeace is an organisation.
It cares about nature.
It protects nature.
It protects nature all over the world.
Greenpeace protects the Amazon forest.
Greenpeace works with the people who live in the forest.
They want to find ways to protect the forest.
They want to do that together.
They want to save the Amazon forest.
They want the forest to stay.
We want that, too.
