Deforestation in the Amazon forest

Today we will talk about deforestation in the Amazon forest.

The fire of Amazon forest is principally located in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay.

The fire started in January 2019 (two thousand and nineteen) and is still burning.

The area burned is of 9,060,000 (nine-million-sixty thousand) hectares

Fires, intentionally designed to clear land for livestock, agriculture and forestry took on too large and serious proportions

We’ll see what the consequences of wildfire

First, I will present the environmental consequences

The Amazon rainforest covers about 40% (forty percent) of South America and is also called "the lungs of the planet" because it produces 20% (twenty percent) of the Earth's oxygen.   Since   the beginning of the year, 70,000 (seventy thousand) forest fires have been reported, an increase of more than 85% (eighty-five percent) over the previous year.    

The devastation that threatens wildlife, natural resources and our oxygen supply will be felt around the world.

Health experts say that if the fires are not extinguished quickly, the Amazon could reach a "crucial tipping point."

We have already lost about 20% (twenty percent) of the rainforest, the tipping point is 25% (twenty-five percent).

Fires release toxic gases from the atmosphere.

They generate large amounts of carbon dioxide while destroying millions of trees that would absorb carbon dioxide including pollution and protect the environment.

Carbon dioxide will also increase heat in our atmosphere because of the greenhouse effect, resulting in the melting of large ice layers and many other catastrophic effects of climate change, so losing a significant portion of the forest would accelerate climate change because more carbon dioxide would be in the atmosphere.

If the Amazon rainforest were to disappear, our temperatures and rain would change in an instant.

Fires in the Amazon rainforest could have profound effects on our health, and have immediate consequences for the habitants of the region because of the poor air quality. There are thirty-four million people living in the Amazon, of which about 385 (three hundred-eighties) indigenous groups.

In addition, many medicines come from forest plants and which is a problem.

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