During the past twenty years, both his parents had been consumed by the Amazon forest.

"You looked in there, it was like the Amazon forest," one investigator said.

Here on the edge of the Amazon forest, his father had bought a 13,433 acre spread.

Many species of plants in the Amazon forest provide medicines which are very helpful to man.

In 2005 the government reported that one fifth of the Amazon forests had been cleared by deforestation.

It is awesome indeed when half a million army ants are swarming in an Amazon forest.

Curare is known by many tribes across the Amazon forest, where it has served as a poison.

Helena, a Christian white girl aged 12 or 13, was in a river near to the Amazon forest with her father.

"I drew the latex for these bad boys at 3am one morning from wild rubber trees growing in the virgin Amazon forest."

Typically the Amazon forest is viewed as having a monotonous growing season, where vegetation growth has no particular pattern.