位于地球西半部的拉丁美洲是一块妇孺皆知的无比富饶的大陆。它地跨南北半球,绵延万余公里,有大约1,600万平方公里的面积位于南北回归线之间,其中近一半(从墨西哥中部至巴西南部)是莽莽林海。拉美丰富的森林资源不仅造福于拉美人民,对平衡整个地球的生态环境也有不可忽视的作用。在拉美的热带丛林中,以亚马孙河流域的热带林区最为有名。亚马孙热带丛林占地500万平方公里,约占世界热带森林的三分之一。这里雨水丰沛、气候湿热,是各种热带林木繁茂之地,多层次的绿色植被组成一个神秘的绿色王国。据估 Latin America, located in the western half of the Earth, is a very fertile continent known to all. Spanning over the northern and southern hemispheres, it stretches over 10,000 kilometers and has an area of ​​about 16 million square kilometers between the Tropics of the South and the Tropics. Nearly half of the area, from central Mexico to southern Brazil, is inundated with vast stretches of forest. Latin America’s rich forest resources not only benefit the Latin American people but also play an important role in balancing the ecological environment of the entire planet. Among the tropical jungles in Latin America, the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin are best known. Amazon tropical jungle occupies 5 million square kilometers, accounting for about one-third of the world’s tropical forests. Here abundant rainfall, hot and humid climate, is a variety of tropical wooded land, multi-level green vegetation form a mysterious green kingdom. It is estimated