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A. The Amazon rainforest represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. About 60 percent of the forest is in Brazil, followed by Peru with 13 percent.
B. Peru is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
D. The main sources of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest are human settlement and development of the land. More than 90 percent of land deforested since 1970 is used for livestock pasture.
D. The forests are home to up to 75 percent of the world's species and produce 28 percent of the world's oxygen. More than one quarter of the world's medicines have been discovered in the forests.