The Amazon Forest in South America is the largest rainforest in the world. It covers five and a half million square kilometres of the Amazon Basin and1 across nine countries.
The Amazon rainforest is very important because it is home to2 of animals，birds and insects. However，people are destroying the area by3 down many of the trees. This is called "deforestation". Many living things lose4 homes because of deforestation. As a result，the number of kinds of animals，birds，insects and trees in the world 5 .
We must do our best to protect the Amazon rainforest.
