9 Our Rain Forest Adventure

Our Rain Forest Adventure After taking us to Hawaii, Wind Rider brought us to the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. The Amazon rain forest is a huge area of warm, wet forest that stretches across eight countries in South America, and the Amazon River, which runs through it, is the largest in the world. The rain forest is full of animals. Sadly, many of them are endangered by deforestation. This is caused by people setting fires that spread through the forest, and by people cutting down trees to sell as timber or to build or create farmland. For example, Brazil is the world's largest exporter of beef, and ranchers need grazing land for their cattle, so they cut down acres of trees. As well as destroying animals' habitats, deforestation is also damaging to the environment in

在带我们去了夏威夷之后，风骑士带我们去了巴西的亚马逊雨林。 亚马逊雨林是一大片温暖潮湿的森林，横跨南美洲的八个国家，而流经其中的亚马逊河是世界上最大的。 雨林里到处都是动物。 可悲的是，它们中的许多都因森林砍伐而濒临灭绝。 这是由于人们在森林中放火，人们砍伐树木作为木材出售或建造或开辟农田造成的。 例如，巴西是世界上最大的牛肉出口国，牧场主需要放牧的土地来养牛，所以他们砍伐了数英亩的树木。 除了破坏动物的栖息地，森林砍伐也破坏了环境

all kinds of ways.

各种各样的方法。

Sofia's Macaw Facts The scarlet macaws were the most amazing to see! Here are my favorite macaw facts. Macaws are the world's largest parrots and there are at least seventeen different species. They can live for fifty years in the wild and even longer in captivity.

猩红色的金刚鹦鹉是最令人惊奇的！以下是我最喜欢的金刚鹦鹉知识。 金刚鹦鹉是世界上最大的鹦鹉，至少有17种不同的种类。 它们在野外可以活50年，圈养的寿命甚至更长。

Hyacinth macaws are the length of a full-size guitar. They are a rich blue color, with yellow around their eyes and beaks. Military macaws are mostly bright green, as though they are wearing a soldier's uniform.

风信子金刚鹦鹉有一把全尺寸的吉他那么长。 他们是一个丰富的蓝色，与黄色周围他们的眼睛和喙。 军用金刚鹦鹉大多是亮绿色的，好像它们穿着士兵的制服。

Blue-and-yellow macaws have golden feathers on their bellies and the underside of their wings. They are good at copying human voices!

蓝黄金刚鹦鹉的腹部和翅膀下方有金色的羽毛。 他们擅长模仿人类的声音！