Annual Toy Drive Kicks Off Throughout County The Boone County Toy Drive is now accepting donations of new toys. Donations can be dropped of at Lebanon Fire Department Station 11 or the...
The Amazon rainforest â which defined biogeographically includes the rainforest in the Guianas, which technically are outside the Amazon Basin â covers 7.8-8.2 million sq km (3-3.2 million sq mi), of which just over 80 percent is forested. The Amazon River is by far the world's largest river by volume.
The world's largest rainforest is the Amazon rainforest Brazil has the largest extent of rainforest cover Rainforests also exist outside the tropics, including temperate North America, South America, Australia, and Russia. Rainfall: rainforests receive at least 80 inches (200 cm) of rain per year. 2  Canopy: rainforests have a canopy, which is the layer of branches and leaves formed by closely spaced rainforest trees some 30 meters (100 feet) off the ground. 3  A large proportion of the plants and animals in the rainforest live in the canopy.