However, National Geographic reports that the region is in danger: Illegal deforestation used to create grazing area for cattle threatens to destroy not just the untouched jungle ecosystems, but also the ancient treasures within them.
The plants are what is known as a keystone species: yank them from the jungle and the whole ecosystem would collapse.
They yelled at the police and reporters about the Belo Monte hydroelectric project, a billion-dollar dam that is going to flood most of their reservation in the Amazon jungle and destroy the ecosystem.
We won't assign value to his little portion of the Lungs of the Earth and the work it does right now, creating the oxygen we all need, flourishing as jungle, forest and ocean ecosystems, pumping out oxygen and sequestering the carbon that's threatening to kill us.
It is a genuine jungle in there, a wild ecosystem of competing "species" of DNA freeloaders, DNA symbionts, endangered DNA sequences and rotting DNA fossils.
Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo sees the new media environment as more of an ecosystem than a jungle, "with lots of different sorts of news orgs playing different and sometimes complementary roles".
What looks, at first, like a mess of a jungle is, in actuality, a planned ecosystem.
Which is more civilized, he asks, a peaceful mountaintop with a thriving ecosystem, or the concrete jungle?
Only a few years in, and already the mobile application ecosystem has become an unfathomable jungle of applications – some 700,000-plus in the two top mobile app stores, Apple's App Store and Google Play.
This is a bigger population fall than that suffered by animals in jungles, temperate forests, savannahs and any other large ecosystem.
