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The Amazon rainforest is home to billions of trees, animals and people. It鈥檚 spread across nine countries in South America - Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela - but the majority of it, almost 60%, is in Brazil. As well as being rich in biodiversity, the Amazon is also very important in the world's fight against climate change; as it absorbs carbon dioxide and produces oxygen.

But the Amazon has been declining. In fact, in 2022 Brazil set a new deforestation record for the amount of trees cut down in the rainforest in one month. This impact is being felt directly by the indigenous groups who have been living there for thousands of years, but also the world as a whole. In this episode we鈥檙e joined by Graihagh Jackson, from the 麻豆社鈥檚 The Climate Question podcast, and Dr Erika Berenguer, who鈥檚 a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford and Lancaster. We chat about why the Amazon is so important, and what鈥檚 being done to protect it. This year鈥檚 climate summit Cop30 is being held in Belem, in the Amazon, for the first time. So we also discuss what impact this could have on the world鈥檚 largest rainforest.

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