Amazon Rainforest Deterioration

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Deforestation is occurring around this world more rapidly that It should be. While this is happening, people are losing their homes, animals are losing their lives, and this earth’s beauty is deteriorating. Using the Amazon rainforest, as an example to how people of this world are massacring the very essence of what we are would only give you a small insight to the destruction we are causing. The more we destroy our only resources the more we are suffocating ourselves. We are so busy trying to create a more stable and efficient modern world that we are forgetting where we originally came from and how we started. We are losing more and more of our precious history with every tree, plant, lake, and flower we are eradicating. Animals that have

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