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Including deforestation in the Amazon Basin, illegal wildlife trade, illegal poaching, land degradation and air and water pollution. Water pollution in Brazil is caused by mining activities, wetland degradation, and severe oil spills. Acid rain is also a problem. It’s caused by the rise…

“Click, click, click!” The life jackets sounded throughout the woods. My family and I were in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. And we were going to swim in a stalactites filled, fresh water, cave! It was cool to try something new, but I was also nervous and hesitant, because it was a dark cave. “Let’s go!” A man yelled who was wearing a big pair of goggles. We all headed down the yucky, old, wooden stairs. “Don’t fall, don’t fall!” I whispered to myself. “You're okay.” My mom responded…

Importance of The Amazon Rainforest Kevin O’Gorman It’s suffering. The biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest is suffering from the rapid changes within it. Humans are cutting down the wood in the Amazon for resources. Everything is dying off because of the changes. It may be at a point of no return and impossible to save. The important plants are being destroyed for human resources. The Amazon is habitat to a variety of animals and humans. They’re suffering because the place they…

A Critical Review of Into the Amazon by Scott Wallace I. Introduction Uncontacted people, also identified as isolated tribes, are known to be found in dense forest mostly in South America, Central Africa, New Guinea and India. These groups live without any contact with the civilization due to voluntary isolation or life circumstances, and their main characteristic is that they survive within their lands by hunting and gathering aliment from the nature. The majority of tribes speak isolated…

For all of you Aussies who thoroughly enjoy intense and unusual landscapes, Queensland's Glass House Mountains National Park is a place not to be missed. Whether you have a long weekend or a national holiday to celebrate, the domineering 11 Glass House Mountain peaks will fire almost anyone's imagination with a terrain that's unusual--even for typically laid-back Australians. Just What Are The Glass House Mountains (GHM)? A group of jagged hills that are actually volcanic plugs left over…

The Amazon rainforest stretches 3 million square miles across nine different countries including Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Perú, and Colombia. The main countries that house the Amazon are Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia. However, majority of the Amazon is actually in Brazil. This place is teeming with life; vegetation, animals, and indigenous ethnic groups across hundreds of thousands of miles. There are about 80,000 species of plants, 3 million…

Biomes Survival Story We were flying in the government's new 737 million dollar B-2 Spirit jet. My sergeant gave me and my co-pilot orders to go to the coordinates 6.1° S 106.9° E, which is Jakarta, Indonesia. Our orders were to observe the areas that have military-like forces in the tropical rainforest. As we were making our last pass for reconnaissance over the tropical rainforest, there was a huge thunderstorm. A few minutes after the storm started the B-2 jet was struck by lightning,…

Tropical forests are found near the equator in Central America, parts Africa and Asia. They are very hot and humid and contain a huge variety of plants and animals round half of the entire world's species. Trees are mostly hardwood. “The world's largest tropical rainforests are in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia” (Line3 TR), this explain as to why the temperature in these places tend to be humid. Tropical forest is a great place for many different species of plant to grow because of…

Picture this, The Amazon Rainforest. Bright green leaves from trees, animal moving all around, and beautiful trees, flowers and plant. Amazing, right? Well now imagine all of that being cut down, even destroyed. Many companies are cutting down trees in the Amazon to make factories, roads, farms, and to plant trees. By doing this, plants and animals are getting killed, which is causing a chain reaction. The animal and plant population goes down, then there is less food to hunt, then people are…

to the cutting, clearing, and removal of rainforest or related ecosystems into less bio-diverse ecosystems such as pasture, cropland, or plantations.” (Algee). According to National Geographic, during the past 40 years, close to 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down. (National Geographic) Wildfires also have a negative impact on the rainforests. “From the mid-1980s through 2015 the average number of acres burned has grown from about 2 million acres a year to around 8 million.”…