Pollution is a real threat to the Amazon. It threatens the people, the animals, and the life blood of the forest itself.

The Forest is the only thing that is saving the Amazon. The forest produces oxygen and cleanses the air of carbon dioxide that is produced by factories and other carbon dioxide producing facilities. The forest suffers from many pollutants. Certain pollutants, such as ones used in textile mills, are able to destroy vegetation. Near textile mills, vegetation is limited and hardly even weeds are able to grow.
The indigenous people of the Amazon is also the victims. There homes are being invaded and their lives are being destroyed due to factory emmisions and other pollutants. The pollutants are hazardous to their health and destructive to their minds for many of these pollutants can be carcinogenic and mentally harming.
The animals are greatly affected by the pollution caused by various sources. Animals species unknown to humans are becoming extinct because they live in delicate balance with the envornment. When the environment is altered, even in miniscule amounts, animals species cannot survive.

The animals have shown dramatic response to pollutants. Traces of certain pollutants, such as one fertilizers that are beginning to be used on slash and burn farms, are beginning to show up in animals cells.