Conflict over deforestation in the Amazon Ecosystems Assessment The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering a total area of 2.1 million square miles. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and is the most species-rich biome and ecosystem in the world today. More than 15% of the world’s animal and plant species live in the Amazon rainforest, including 30% of all birds. Such an amazing forest, also known as the ‘Pharmacy of the World’
the carbon that they make. Trees help give shelter, warmth, and everyday materials with agriculture. Deforestation is such a bad epidemic that most people don’t understand how it can affect everyone and the environment. By taking trees it makes loss of habitat, warm weather, soil erosion, and less clean air. People who cut down trees illegally tend to cut down more than is needed. Deforestation is a good but bad way for people to get the materials they need, and the loss of over 1000 different species
is the definition of deforestation? It is an activity which brings permanent damage to the forests and make uses of the land for other purposes. There is about an estimated of 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of trees are chopped down which is roughly the size of the country, Panama according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). (Bradford, 2015) According to the news, Indonesia now has become the country with the highest rate of deforestation in the world. 840,000
Chico Mendes. Chico Mendes stated, “At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon Rain Forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.” Chico Mendes raised awareness in Brazil due to the injustice his family and community faced by rubber barons, who took control of the Rain Forest territories. Chico Medes was a social and environmental warrior who defended Brazilian Rubber Tappers (Encyclopedia). Born December 15, 1944 in Brazil, Chico
such as The Magic School Bus and It’s A Big Wild World address environmentalism in some episodes if not all of them. It’s A Big Wide World’s whole premise is to teach children to protect wildlife and forests, specifically the inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest. If these children shows can be aired and not banned, there is no reason for a book with the same basis to be
is critical now. In another 4-5 decades, glaciers in the Himalayas which is the source of water for millions of people could be vanished. Within 50 years green belts melting ice sheet could be difficult to stop. By the end of the century, the Amazon rainforest which is also a home of the world's biodiversity could deteriorate. Climate change is pushing conditions from bad to worse. Thus the whole world should respond to the threat of climate change. Effective action is required to cut down greenhouse