The Amazon is a vast and majestic rain forest teeming with an estimated quarter of all known land species. The jaguar, the pink river dolphin, the sloth, the world's largest flower, a monkey the size of a toothbrush and a spider the size of a baseball are just a few of the species that we know about - there are many more yet to be discovered. It is also home to over 20 million people including hundreds of indigenous peoples, some of which have never been contacted by the 'outside world'. And finally, the Amazon stores 80 to 120 billion tonnes of carbon, helping to stabilise the planet's climate.
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