The Lung of Our Earth

Deforestation presents in an abundance of ways, including fires, clear-cutting for agriculture, ranching and development, unsustainable logging for timber, and degradation due to climate change. The foremost reason of deforestation in Latin America is the requirement for food, fuel, shelter, and foreign exchange. Year on year, a space of tropical forest the size of Great Britain is "converted" from an area equal to the size of Europe. Ever since 1950, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), half of the world 's forests have disappeared. “Latin America has lost 37 percent of its tropical forests,” says the FAO. As more and more of Latin American forest are degraded, more and more detrimental effects are being seen. Deforestation is changing a number of resources for tribal groups, altering their way of life, temperatures are increasing at a dangerous rate because of a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, habitats and species such as plants and wildlife are being annexed due to the destructive effects of deforestation. Deforestation is inarguably helpful to supplying money to countries that sell the products from the forest, but huge wealth being generated from the forests comes with large-scale environmental and social costs. The local residences are not benefitting and the funds are being siphoned out of the region.

However, due to more people searching for plots there is greater pressure on the amount of available land. The logging industry is responsible for a relatively small level of deforestation, accounting for 3% in Brazil. Consequently, all these activity contribute together to the rapid loss of what is left of the rainforest and a large proportion of the world’s biodiversity. All of the resources that the rainforest provides could be lost in the next 40 years.

The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest and river basin in the world. It covers around 2.1 million square miles of land, and exists in eight different countries and one French Territory. The Amazon rainforest is one of the most diverse places on the planet, accounting for ten percent of all known species, with more being discovered every year. But in this fragile ecosystem, people see opportunity to make money and a lifestyle, sometimes even illegally, trying to profit in the logging, mining, and agriculture industries. However, these industries help contribute to the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest.

The Denver Academy has recently researched and defined some of the important facts surrounding the Amazon rainforest. In 2017, the Amazon rainforest covers 2.1 million square miles of South America. It is a vast ecosystem home to 10% of the world’s known species (The Denver Academy). They go on to say that the trees are so dense, when it rains, it takes 10 minutes for the water to break through the forest roof. The destruction of this habitat could lead to extinction of these species, and have devastating impacts all over the world from the loss of the lungs of the earth. While it is mainly concentrated in Brazil there are also large portions of the rainforest in Peru and Colombia, so many populations and economies are directly affected

Since 1978 over 750,000 square kilometers of forests have been destroyed and deforested in the Amazon forest across Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. Brazil has the largest area of forest removed annually from the Amazon. Many terrestrial ecosystems in the Amazon are affected significantly by the impacts of deforestation. The Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. Its rainforests are known to be home to millions of plant and animal species. With the increasing deforestation that is taking place, many of those species and their habitats are under a great threat. Every species that disappears from the ecosystem due to deforestation can destroy the survival chances of another species in the Amazon.

The Amazon rainforest, known as well as the Amazonia, is considered as the “lung of the planet,” due to it produces about 20% of earth’s oxygen. The Amazon is contained by the countries of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the three Guianas (Amazon Rainforest). Unfortunately, one phenomenon that has been affecting the Amazon rainforest is the deforestation; according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, deforestation is the transformation of forest to non-forest land cover by human activities.

In recent years one of the greatest dangers the world overall countenances is the damage of our surroundings. The demolition of the Brazilian rainforest is presumably the most imperative issue that is to be contemplated on the grounds that it is the reason for other major environmental issues we are confronting, for example, an unnatural weather change, the exhaustion of our ozone layer, and perceptible atmosphere changes all over the world. Brazil's deforestation issue has transformed into earth's deforestation issue.

A. The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most important natural features of our planet, crucial to our way of life. However, what Godfrey (1990) described as “one of the world’s last great settlement frontiers” is severely under threat.

Oxygen, food, animals, these requisites are getting destroyed. Conservation efforts have been around since people were struggling for resources. About fifteen percent of all the rainforests in the world are in danger (Newstrack). The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in Brazil. There have been many reports of deforestation and forest fires occurring in the Amazon Rainforest. Some believe that the resources from the forest are more valuable than the forest itself. The Amazon Rainforest should continue to be protected by adding more nature reserves because many rare and exotic animal species live there, the trees produce large amounts of oxygen, and it is a major source of rubber.

The article starts with giving some things the rainforest can provide: medicines, weather pattern control, and being a biome for many different forms of life. There have been steps taken by activists to try and stop it all. They face problems because there are many factors that go into deciding whether to stop the destruction. Vittal gives a little coverage on what the Amazonian rainforest is and where it is located. The rainforest is spread through a range of countries amounting to 914 million acres. If part of the forest is chopped down it could affect the ecosystems of the countries it inhabits. The article continues with why people should be concerned about the rainforest and keeping it preserved. Not only is the Amazon the widely diverse but a lot of medicine is extracted from the rainforest and the plants. There is a lot more to discover in the rainforest and many things will be destroyed before they are found. In these undiscovered products, there could be cures to a lot of diseases or be helpful in other ways. The rainforest provides material for many everyday items like rubber, plastic, shampoo, soap and much more. Being called the Earth’s lungs is a big name but the Amazon proves itself through consuming carbon dioxide through plants and soil and produces oxygen. There is also the

Every single day, the Amazon Rainforest is losing a massive amount of area due to deforestation. The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and it is the world’s source of oxygen. Deforestation has slowed down years ago, but now, it is starting to increase and does not show that it will slow down. Earth without tree’s, the human race and animals would not be able to survive. Today’s society is not taking deforestation as a serious matter. If deforestation were to be left alone, the planet and animals would not be the only ones suffering from it. Deforestation is a big issue that has to be made known and find a solution to end it. The causes and the effects of deforestation should be made known to the society and the importance

One in ten species in the world lives in the Amazon, which makes it the most biodiverse tropical rainforest in the world. This great expanse of rainforest harbors about half of all species on Earth. As large areas of this tropical forest are cleared by deforestation, entire species are vanishing, many of them unknown. The dense tropical forests also hold a large amount of carbon that is being released into the atmosphere because of deforestation. Although deforestation in the tropics is rapid and widespread, some people are making an increasing effort to mitigate potential disaster.

The Amazon rainforest is home to one tenth of all animal and plant species in the world. Also, it produces more than 20% of the earths oxygen that humans use during daily life. Nevertheless 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed,

Rainforests have been declining rapidly over the last few decades. There are various factors responsible for this decline, resulting in serious impacts on the environment and the economy. Critically discuss the causes of deforestation and solutions to it.

The Rainforest is home to many creatures of the world.There are The Amazonians, Rubber Trappers and Environmental groups who want to preserve it. This essay is about how the Rainforest is trying to be preserved from be cut down so people who depend on it can live.