the amazon rain forest is a moist grassy land where many wild animals live and contains the amazon river which is the 2nd longest river in the world and has the largest volume of water. the world's longest river is the nile in africa. the forest is known as a rain forest as it rains very often but due to the dense surroundings not every droplet reaches the bottom. the amazon is shared by eight countries (brazil, bolivia, peru, ecuador, colombia, venezuela, guyana and suriname) and stretches for 6.7 million kilometers2. in the amazon rain forest, hundreds of thousands of trees have been cut down for wood and paper, meaning that the forest is endangered. unlike the boreial forest in canada the trees are not getting replanted.