The Amazon Basin: Global Connections

Submitted by The Catt-Trax2 Team on Fri, 2007/01/05 - 2:05pm.
Report prepared by Justine Kowalski and Ben McGibbon, students in BCIT's Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program.

The entire world is connected with the Amazon basin. Twenty percent of the world's oxygen is provided by the Amazon rainforest. Also, plants harvested from the Amazon Basin are important sources of medicine used all over the world.