🔥The Amazon Wildfires 🔥
The Amazon rainforest was once a moist, green, healthy jungle. Now half of the Amazon is on fire, a burnt and dry wasteland. The fires have caused more than 200 species to die or be on the verge of extinction. Ancient trees have been cut or burnt down, and homes of native Amazon tribes have disintegrated. Two-thirds of the world’s plants live there.
The wildfires are not just affecting Brazil, but us as well due to CO2 being released from trees burning, and not being able to take it back in. Bright blue skies have turned dark grey and are polluted. The Amazon rainforest or “The lungs of our planet” produces 20% of the world’s oxygen. From June to December most of the Amazon is dry. Most of it is caused by human activity, clearing space for farmland.
7,000 square miles are in flames, an area just smaller than New Jersey.
Amazons president Jair Balsa Naro encouraged deforestation in the Amazon for farmland. They have lost half of the natural habitat of this area since 2013. Brazilian scientist George Georgiadis is fighting to protect everything that lives here. Due to the Amazon rainforest burning and in other places it is not helping his mission. George and his wife hid cameras to see what animals live there and what they need to survive.
Giant otters have been saved from extinction. Keeping track of the cameras leads to new discoveries. Some trees in the Amazon are really important. Taking the sunlight and water and putting it back in the atmosphere.
Due to the Amazon rainforest being on fire, Brazil is not the only one in trouble. The Amazon produces 20% of the world’s oxygen. Without trees to take in carbon dioxide, and produce new oxygen were in trouble too.
By Poppy
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