Amazon deforestation
The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It’s critical for biodiversity and climate regulation, because it ‘pumps’ water into the air (like a heart) to produce rain and cool the earth. The Amazon is the world’s largest carbon sink, storing an estimated 150-200 billion tons of carbon. It also houses at least 10% of the planet’s known biodiversity, and is home to over 400 distinct groups of Indigenous peoples, who have protected this crucial ecosystem for centuries.