These are some reasons to save the Amazon rainforest

1. The Amazon Rainforest
Raising Awareness
By Nicholas

2. The main sources of deforestation
in the Amazon Rainforest are
human settlement and
development of the land.

3. Since 1980 580,000km2
of the rainforest has been
destroyed.

4. The animals living in
this rainforest are
directly affected
by deforestation.
Trees form their
main source of
food. They also
build their nest
and take shelter in
different trees.

5. Numerous species of insects depend
on the flowers’ nectar for survival.

6. The Amazon river contains 20 percent of
the fresh water on Earth and its
freshwater systems contain minerals
that are important to fertilizing land in
the rainforest. Water pollution is
worsening in the Amazon as a result of
extensive logging in the rainforest.

7. The shrinking rainforest could result
in the Amazon shifting from a
carbon bank that keeps the element
out of the atmosphere, to a source
of carbon in the atmosphere by the
year 2050.

8. The Amazon is known as the Lungs
of the Earth. This is because it
supplies most of the oxygen for
Earth. Although it gives us oxygen
it will not last forever.

9. Rates of Deforestation in Amazon

10. Although there have been some
improvements in the rainforest
there is still a long way to go until
this rainforest is safe.