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Today more than two thousand (species) of animals in south America arethreat. All across the continent, forest is being (steady) cut downreplaced by farms. Images(take) from space show the scale of the destruction: Throughout south America aswhole, an area of forest , the size of a football pitch ( lose) every five seconds. Of all the forest at risk, perhaps ( valuable ) lies in the very heart of the continent—the Amazon rainforest, is the largest on earth. Over two million kinds of plants and animals now live here , more than other of the earth's seven continents.