Brazil Pictures
Amazon

...and the occasional monkey if you're lucky. The rest are sleeping.

Brazil Photos: a highly poisonous Eyelash Viper; a wooly monkey; baby caiman.

The Amazon Basin covers 2.3 million square miles, fed by the Amazon river which contains 25% of all the water carried by all the rivers of the world.
4 square miles of this rain forest can contain up to 1,500 species of plant, 750 species of trees, 125 different mammals, 400 different birds and countless species of invertebrates. Many species are still unrecorded and the full medical potential of Amazon plant life is little explored.
About 2 square miles of this unique natural treasure is being destroyed for farming or logging every hour.

Indian tribes live in harmony with the forest, clearing small areas for vegetable plots which are returned to nature every couple of years. This kind of sustainable lifestyle has been recognised by the Colombian authorities who have dedicated a 4,000 squre mile park to Indian management, banning other developement.

A sensible and forward thinking approach to rainforest use needs to be encouraged among all eight countries that share the Amazon Basin, especially the largest one, Brazil.

The best season in the Amazon is the dry, from July-Oct.

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Pictures by Julian Loader except the snake photo by Jim Jurica