The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on planet Earth. Generating half its own rainfall and holding 20 percent of all the world’s rivers within its borders, it covers an area two-thirds the size of the contiguous 48 United States, and produces 20 percent of the oxygen in the world’s atmosphere.
There are more than 1,100 tributaries of the Amazon River alone, with seventeen of them longer than one thousand miles. The rainforest also creates “flying rivers,” — massive streams of airborne moisture that develop above the canopy and move with the clouds and rainfall patterns across the entire continent of South…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Sad. This, I believe, is the human response to climate change in a microcosm. I fear reading stories like this that my feeling that it is too late may be validated. People won’t want to change their lifestyles, and have not, since the beginning of our emergence on the planet!
I can see that somewhere in the future, it will be nothing but humans and their cattle.
Maybe humans will choose to go away before that…
I really hate to say I hope you are right!
Cross your fingers (but don’t hold your breath).