Hello there! It is your amateur writer, A. Varssha Lakshmie (8G) . In this article, I am going to talk about the Amazon forest which is depleting slowly. I, a wildlife enthusiast, wants the world to hear my voice about the amazon forest. So, here I am writing an article about it. I hope you find it informative and engaging!
The amazon rainforest ah yes, the Amazon rainforest. When I think of it lush, tall, and bizarre-looking trees. It has a bustling variety of flora and fauna. The fauna of the amazon
includes sloths, freshwater dolphin, Amazonian manatees, different species of macaws.
As for flora, it includes orchids, passionflower, monkey bush vines, and more. Enough of naming the flora and fauna now, let us jump into the real matter.
the Amazon rain forest was one of the great wildernesses on planet Earth, where isolated tribes and untold species of animals lived undisturbed by outsiders. But today Amazon is
taking a turning point, as deforestation combines with climate change, land degradation, illegal logging and, poaching of wild animals threaten the rain forest’s very existence. The indigenous people fighting illegal logging, the loggers cutting paths into the jungle, and the frontiersmen. A study stated that tropical legumes that grow in moist areas are dying and those adapted to drier clime.
In addition to the above passage, large parts of the Amazon rainforest are being deforested. Tree clearing has already shrunk the forest by around 15% from its 1970s extent of more than 6 million square kilometers; in Brazil, which contains more than half the forest, more than 19% has disappeared. In the 2000s, Brazil was praised for drastically
slowing forest loss, but the rate has since risen as a result of political turmoil and an economic recession. Last year, deforestation in Brazil spiked by around 30% to almost 10,000 km2, the largest loss in a decade.
Now let us jump back in time to the amazon forest fire issue, saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru during that year's Amazonian tropical dry season. These fires normally occur because of the slash and burn method and deforestation. as are used to clear the forest to make way for agriculture, livestock, logging, and mining, leading to deforestation. Such activity is generally illegal within these nations, but enforcement of environmental protection can be lax. The increased rates of fire counts in 2019 led to international concern about the fate of the Amazon rainforest, which is the world's largest terrestrial carbon dioxide sink and plays a significant role in mitigating global warming.
So, readers, you know who responsible right? it is us we the human beings, our little acts of carelessness cause havoc in nature. Therefore, we must monitor our actions. This ends my article, have a great day!