Brazil
Nearly 40% of all the tropical rainforest left in the world are in the Brazilian Amazon. Brazil, the largest country in South America, has perhaps the best opportunity remaining to save large tracks of tropical rainforest. Brazil still has over 772,200 square miles of frontier forest.

Chile
Chile’s forests may seem to be located at the end of the Earth. They form a connected island in the far reaches of the southern hemisphere, with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Antarctic Ocean to the south, and the Andes Mountains to the east.

Ecuador
Approximately 37% of Ecuador’s old growth forests remain, equaling nearly twenty million acres. The majority is tropical rainforest located east of the Andean Mountains. There are more than twelve thousand plant species, in this rainforest.

To learn more about the rainforests of South America visit the following sites:
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm
http://www.rainforesteducation.com/