AMAZON RAINFOREST ENDAGER
Amazon is the green heart of South America, it stretches for almost 7 million square km covering an area larger than Europe. Jungle of Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, therefore it is a habitat of million species of animals and plants which accounts for more than half of all planet species. The rainforest trees have an extraordinary ability to absorb and store atmospheric carbon dioxide that harm us and release a vital oxygen which give humanity and other species the basic element for living. It provides about 20 % of all oxygen on earth, so it works as a big lung for the entire planet. But this wondrous service that the Amazon presents is under immense pressure and threat because of humans and their …show more content…
During the last 50 years the rainforest of the Amazon was remarkably destroyed and the most of that took place in Brazil which is home to more than half of Amazonian rainforest. Amazon rainforest can be also attributed to large-scale ranchers who clear the land to raise cattle which is a high profit activity for poor economic countries that have lack in natural resources, however, Brazil has over 200 million head of cows which makes it the world largest commercial cattle herd, and the largest beef exporter, therefore, according to Brazil’s national space institute about 61 % the area in the Amazon has already occupied by cattle. Another contributor to deforestation is logging in the Amazon which occurred because of the massive marketing for wood products worldwide. As well as selective logging in rainforest leads to rise susceptibility to fire because it leaves a dense forest which becomes naturally resistant to burning, this is a nature cause for
Amazon is the green heart of South America, it stretches for almost 7 million square km covering an area larger than Europe. Jungle of Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, therefore it is a habitat of million species of animals and plants which accounts for more than half of all planet species. The rainforest trees have an extraordinary ability to absorb and store atmospheric carbon dioxide that harm us and release a vital oxygen which give humanity and other species the basic element for living. It provides about 20 % of all oxygen on earth, so it works as a big lung for the entire planet. But this wondrous service that the Amazon presents is under immense pressure and threat because of humans and their …show more content…
During the last 50 years the rainforest of the Amazon was remarkably destroyed and the most of that took place in Brazil which is home to more than half of Amazonian rainforest. Amazon rainforest can be also attributed to large-scale ranchers who clear the land to raise cattle which is a high profit activity for poor economic countries that have lack in natural resources, however, Brazil has over 200 million head of cows which makes it the world largest commercial cattle herd, and the largest beef exporter, therefore, according to Brazil’s national space institute about 61 % the area in the Amazon has already occupied by cattle. Another contributor to deforestation is logging in the Amazon which occurred because of the massive marketing for wood products worldwide. As well as selective logging in rainforest leads to rise susceptibility to fire because it leaves a dense forest which becomes naturally resistant to burning, this is a nature cause for