The Amazon Rainforest

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Due to the rain forest's massive size and its various feature, it holds such a lot of differing resources that people are dependent on landform. The Amazon rain forest has a wide variety different trees that are best for taking wood. The timber is used in a lot of ways, for example, like building boats or just making stuff with timber. The Amazon forest is so vast; it is a big destination for anyone, in particular, to extract timber and use it in many ways that could benefit a person's life. Medicine is another resource that can be obtained from the Amazon rain forest. Many researchers are starting to notice how diverse plants are in the rain forest so they are looking at plants that could be used to produce disease-curing medicines. Oil is

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