Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rainforest is perhaps the richest collection of plant and animals diversity in the world. It recycles rainfall from coastal regions to the continental interior, providing water for Brazil’s inland agriculture. Big industries like Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, and Cargill have established industrial soy plantations in Brazil that are taking over large plots of land in the Amazon rainforest (Food for Thought). Soy has been popularized in the past decade as a healthy protein substitute for

extinct every year, with a multitude lost in the rainforests across the world. The Amazon Rainforest, the largest rainforest in the world, houses roughly, “40,000 plant species, 427 mammals, 1,300 birds, 378 reptiles, and around 3,000 freshwater fish,” as well as more than 100,000 of invertebrate species (Amazon Wildlife). The rapid loss of the Amazon rainforest, precisely 17% in the last fifty years, critically cripples the biodiversity of the rainforest. To explain, every vehicle that destroys any

Introduction The majority of the Amazon rainforest resides within the boundaries of Brazil. Deforestation within this region has claimed the attention of many states, organizations, and environmental institutions from around the world. This attention puts pressure on the Brazilian government to ameliorate the current rate. Deforestation has been proven scientifically to affect our environment and causes “a rise in average temperatures and a diminution of rainfall”(LeTourneau, 2016, 2016). In addition

of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed by deforestation since the 1960s. At the current rate of deforestation, over half of the remaining rainforest could be gone in the next 17 years (Bradford 2015). Deforestation negatively impacts animal biodiversity in the Amazon Rainforest. There are animal species that can only live in the Amazon Rainforest. With deforestation, they will become extinct. In this paper, habitat fragmentation, the diverse animal and plant population in the Amazon, deforestation

One of the biggest Rainforest in the ecosystem is located In Amazon River Basin in South America. A plant that helps the rainforest is the pitcher plant. Some abiotic factors that help the ecosystem survive is water, sunlight, oxygen, soil and the temperature of the ecosystem . The ecosystem increased by soil stability , and a regulated climate. This picture shows the food chamber. Are ecosystem it's getting destroyed by humans because humans use plant for medicine and more. Humans

The Amazon rainforest has nearly 40,000 plant species, ranging from tiny mosses to huge trees. Many of the Amazon’s trees are economically important, including luxury woods such as mahogany, Brazil nut trees, which produce edible nuts and oils used in cooking and beauty Products, kapok trees, which produce a cotton-like fibre often used as a stuffing for cushions and Murumuru palms, which produce vitamin A. These trees and plants also absorb huge amounts of carbon, helping to prevent dangerous

When the majority of the population is exposed to the words, “the Amazon”, through some form of written or spoken communications, most likely their initial, instinctive response is to visualize the Amazon rainforest as it is portrayed by a staggering amount of both past and present media outlets. This portrayal tends to be one consisting of a vibrantly colored rainforest, brimming with an abundance of diverse and exotic flora and fauna, and, a thriving and well-balanced collection of ecosystems which

the Amazon rainforest. There goes less oxygen we breath everyday. There goes another living thing. The Amazon rainforest is suffering, and as the rainforest suffers, so do we. Business people usually don’t care about the Amazon, and, probably, use paper made from the rainforest trees, but that’s because they didn’t do their research in middle school. Some people say that the Amazon rainforest are the lungs of the Earth, but they could also be the heart as well. If we don’t save this rainforest, then

Brazil holds the global warming issue in the palms of its hands and the government of the world’s fifth-largest economy doesn’t seem to care. A recent article featured on usatoday.com states that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest rose 28% from August 2012 to July 2013 after 4 straight years of decline (Sibaja, 2013). I’m sure this may surprise some people because of the widespread concern of global warming and the affect it may have on future generations, but I don’t think the Brazilian government

The Amazon Rainforest is situated in South America and plays a role in the culture, the economy, and the environment of the states that contain parts of the forest. About two-thirds of the rainforest is in Brazil. The Amazon Rainforest is a carbon sink and absorbs more carbon than it releases. However, with the continued deforestation of the Amazon, the forest is only absorbing half as much carbon as it used to. This is, in part, caused by deforestation as well as tree die-offs. Tree die-offs are