The Amazon Rain Forest is located in South America, and two thirds of it is in the nation of Brazil, a very beautiful and friendly democratic country. Lots of people live in the rain forest, and they are mostly small tribes, living in small communities without electricity or running water. The world's largest snake, the Anaconda, is found in the Amazon rain forest. The biggest danger to the Amazon Rain Forest is not fire.
Deforestation is what happens when people chop down all the trees in the forest and clear the land.
Sometimes they do this for wood, to build homes or to sell. Sometimes they do this to build farms. And sometimes they do this to raise cows and horses. There are plants in the Amazon Rain Forest that might have inside of them a chemical that could cure cancer, or heal infections.