The Amazon Rainforest

by Leo

The Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil and is the biggest rainforest in the world. There are over 30 million people in over 400 tribes that call this rainforest home. This place, though dangerous, is beautiful and has more than 10 million different species of animals that live here with over 80,000 species of plants.

Since 1978 about one million square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest have been destroyed because of deforestation. Deforestation is when people cut down trees and other plants to make room for buildings, farms, paper and other supplies. Also to make things worse over 5.4 million acres have been destroyed because of climate change and wildfires. People are destroying this place that millions of people call home because of population problems and making more room for factories and homes.

The rainforest is being destroyed and burned down because the Amazon rainforest has supplies and animals that we eat. So, in order to protect the rainforest and all the wild places on earth, we need to reuse paper, stop poaching, stop logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction, deforestation and dam-building.

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