Nov. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday called on future generations to safeguard and protect the wildlife and the delicate ecological balance in the Amazon rainforest while visiting the region.

MANAUS, BRAZIL: Joe Biden became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest on Sunday (Nov 17), flagging the dangers of global warming often dismissed by President-elect Donald Trump who has vowed to scrap measures to fight climate change. Biden fl

Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest on Sunday, flagging the dangers of global warming often dismissed by President-elect Donald Trump who has vowed to scrap measures to fight climate change. Biden flew from Lima, Peru, to Manaus, Brazil, the largest city in the…

Joined by Carlos Nobre, a Nobel-Prize winning scientist and Biden climate adviser John Podesta, Biden lifted in his helicopter over a stretch of the rainforest, for a good view of the area

The massive Amazon — it’s about the size of Australia — stores huge amounts of the world’s carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change, even as it’s rapidly deforested.

Joe Biden will become the first U.S. president to set foot in the Amazon rainforest during a brief stop in the Brazilian city of Manaus.