Amazon rainforest

Amazon Rainforest

You’re planning a trip to a dangerous rainforest so here's a question for you what would you bring, what would you do if you were trapped, how and where should you build your camp, what plants and animals can you eat and most importantly the location?

Where is it?

If you are interested in travelling to the amazon it is located northwest of Brazil and in another 8 countries so 9 countries in total.  The 9 countries consist of Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, colombia, Bolivia, Suriname, Venezuela, Peru and French Guiana.

Essentials

The wild is a rough place especially if you don’t have the correct equipment or materials so here a basic list of equipment you’ll need.  If you are planning a trip these are the number 1 things you’ll need

• Knife
• Tarp
• Canned food
• Bottled water
• Can opener
• Tape
• First aid kit
• Personal locator beacon (PLB)
• Radio
• Sleeping bag
• Matches

There are still many more things you should take but these are just the essentials for surviving in the wild.

Deadly Plants

Upon millions of plants in the Amazon today I will only be covering a few like the deadly ones and edible ones.  Starting with the deadly ones that you do not want to set up a camp near is the Nerium Oleander.  Even though it look like your everyday garden flower it’s not, once it’s touched it releases a toxin and can result in death.  It is said that Alexander the Great lost many soldiers because they ate meat skewered on the twigs.  Next is the Aconitum which is highly toxic and will kill.  The Aconitum is bitter and if it’s consumed the eaters mouth will burn and then your mouth will go numb.  The Aconitum is used for many things like take for example the roots are used as medicine but than the plant is used to tip arrows with poison.  Even though there many more deadly plants I’m gonna move onto the edible ones.

Edible Plants

 Now beginning on the first edible plant is Musa Paradisiaca A.K.A the banana.  You’ll find a lot of Musa Paradisiaca in the Amazon along with Piper Nigrum (The black pepper), some Cashews, Cocoa, Cloves (they look disgusting), citrus fruits and many more.

Deadly Animals

Now is the animals which again I can’t cover them all so just a few deadly and some edible ones.  Starting with the deadly ones is the Drumroll please, most deadly one of the bunch, Poisonous Dart Frog.  The poisonous Dart Frog is extremely deadly but scientists have yet to prove how it gains it’s toxin.  Scientists say it is possible that they digest plant or some prey that are either poisoned or poisonous.  It is impossible for the Poisonous  Dart Frogs to develop poisons because are held captive in their native habitat.  Next is the Brazilian Wandering Spider A.K.A the most deadly on the planet.  The spider is 5 centimeters longs so not that big right, well think again, that’s only body size, the leg span reaches upto 15 centimeters which is half a average ruler size.  The Brazilian wandering also has many other names such as the armed spider or banana spider.  The bite from this spider can be extremely deadly an adult nowhere near as close as deadly as it is to a child.  To minimize the chances of death the victim should take antivenom ASAP.

Edible Animals

Now is the Arapaima which is also the first edible animal. The Arapaima is a huge fish that grows to 3m and drumroll please, 200KG.  This fish is very odd as well because it as teeth on it’s tongue and teeth on the roof of its mouth so it can eat.  The Arapaima has a appetite for many things such as fruits, insects, seeds, birds and many mammals found at the water surface.  The Arapaima lives in slow moving rivers so it can easily breath out of the water like us humans.  The Arapaima is extremely fat as well and it usually takes many people to carry one of these beasts.  These fish are also sadly going extinct from the Brazilian waterways because of overfishing.  Now that that is done I’m gonna talk about the Tambaqui which has a few weird and wacky features.  The Tambaqui is weird in many ways but the weirdest is the fact that some of their teeth look like a humans human’s teeth which is disgusting.

This fish also swims in floods to eat fruits and seeds because it is a herbivore but the weird thing is that it belongs in the sub family of the carnivorous paranha piranha.  This fish has a diet of mostly fruit because it’s a herbivour herbivore and another fact is these fish cause some fish to decide on new habitat locations.  The fishes length varies as well ranging from 20 to 100 cm.

Tribes

There are dare I say it, tribes running around the forest shooting things with shotguns or bows and arrows.  These tribes also try to shoot planes that are flying overhead.  These tribes also have no contact to the outside world which you must get bored and lonely with just wood and grass to play with.  It is even said that some tribes are still undescovered undiscovered in the mighty forest.  Yanomami is the name of the largest tribe known in the Amazon leaving the little tribes in their territory to be killed.

Fun Facts

Now for some fun facts.

1. Did you know if the Amazon rainforest was a country it would be ranked 9th in size.
2. Did you know the Amazon is also called the earth's lungs because it supplies 20% of the worlds oxygen.
3. Did you know half of the worlds plantlife and animal species come from rainforests such as the Amazon.
4. Did you know the Amazon has been a thing for 55 million years but the Amazon river has only been for 11 million years.
5. Did you know the Amazon river is a freshwater river.

Conclusion

The Amazon (The Amazon is what this report was on just incase you didn't read it all) is a extremely interesting and massive place that you now know many things about such as the animals and plants.  This report only covered very few facts so if you are interested just go google some more facts.  Now that we’ve covered all the basics of the Amazon and survival you might stand a chance against the wild.

Holiday recount

Running around getting ready for my birthday we set off to rotorua😄.  2 hours later.  We had been in the car for what felt like weeks and we had only made it about half way.  “Are we nearly their?” Sean asked as I started to play some funky karts.  Half an hour later.   I Ko’d Aka fell asleep for 10 minutes according to my chromebooks clock.  When I woke up we had made it to some roadworks that held us up another half an hour.  Finally we made it through the longest traffic jam in the whole galaxy and entered Rotorua😄.

We made it into Rotorua and then spent another 10 minutes chasing my Mum and Dad.  Finally we stopped at a gas station and found out that we were looking for a fish and chips.  Eventually we found a fish and chips to get some food.  The menu was massive and had everything from fish all the way to deep fried mars bars.  I asked if I could have the mars bar but my mum started going on and on about how I’d spew on the skyswing.  In the end we just got hot chips and waited and waited and waited.   Once the chips were fried we left to the mud pools to eat our lunch and have a look at them.  Hopping back in the car we left to the mud pools.  Once we had arrived we ate and saw big mud pools, small mud pools, steep mud pools, shallow mud pools and a humongous mud pool that had a bridge with many people walking across except me, I was jumping and pretending to break it and scaring my mum.  We crossed the bridge and started to head off to do the skyswing.  Another 10 minutes of driving and we had made to the car park and could already hear the gondolas right next to us.

Unpacking my GoPro and some other stuff we began to enter the building.  Once inside all you hear were gondolas and all you could see was a massive line to get tickets and drum roll please an empty line.  We obviously took the empty line and caught a gondola.  Sitting down we admired the amazing, beautiful, extraordinary view with the occasional biker on the BMX track and some people on the luge.  Once we exited the gondola we grouped up and decided to go to the sky swing first.  Waddle, waddle, waddle as we walked to the sky swing.  Me the kid about to go 150 kmh over a cliff by myself, I made an excuse to go to the toilet.  Running to the toilets I contemplated whether I still wanted to do it.  I started coming back to the group and my dad said “You’re a BURGISS so get on that swing now!!!!!!!!!!!”  Hopping on the swing my nervousness level raised to %110 and I was seatbelted in.  The lady said “just tell me when you're to be raised and I said “now.”  I was being raised so there was no going back.  I had reached the top and now my nervous level was %10000*00#*%((%.  All that was left was to pull the cord and fail why didn't it work and then…  “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”  I was going 150 kmh over a cliff by myself and didn't even know if my GoPro was on.  Finally I had started slowing down but a massive magnet flipped me upside down.  I hopped of and head off to the luge.  We didn't’t actually go to the luge but got some drinks and Max was playing on the sand diggers trying to scoop Tyler out of the pit.  Now we finally went to the luge all went on the scenic track except Jakob my cousin who went on the intermediate.  The track had dinosaurs and tons of trees.  Next was the Intermidiate which was just more trees and you could go a bit faster (I done this one 3 times) and lastly the advanced track which had 2 jumps.  Once you finish any of the tracks you go up some chair lifts just like the benchs you see at the park just with a back and a rail across the front.  The luge carts also get attatched to hooks on the bottom.  We started to pack up and leave until I remembered something, there was a jelly belly store at the exit so we had a go at the bean boozled and I got baby wipes, barf and peach.  We also got 2 jelly belly bags ($1 each) with mine containing icecream parlour and spoiled milk to make my own bean boozled for at home.  Finally we had left and I could easily tell that, that was gonna be the best day of the holidays and my whole life.

Riley

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