The Amazon Rainforest or know to many as the “Amazon Jungle” sits on about 2.124 million miles2 and is home to about 10 million species of animals and over 40,000 different plant species. Not including over 2.5 million different insect species. The amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on earth. The Amazon rainforest is located in South America , it covers much of northwest Brazil and extends into Colombia,Peru and other countries. Part of the Amazon Rainforest is the River that flows through South America and is a big part of the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon is the seventh oldest rainforest in the world and has existed for about 55 years.
The Amazon Rainforest is extremely hot and humid however,they receive about 250 centimeters
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Some of the negative impacts human make are pollution. This happens when people litter and they are not careful of pouring liquids into the rivers or on the grounds of the forests. This also happens when over fertilizing an ecosystem. We also impact the Amazon Rainforest by over collecting wood. This can be in many different ways, cutting down to many trees and not growing new ones used to make paper and firewood and ,taking too many branches off of trees for firewood and building shelters. One of the big ways we impact the Amazon Rainforest is commercial agriculture. What I mean by this is the illegal clearing of land and causes deforestation. This can be clearing the forest to build malls,shopping complexes,stores and apartment building. This takes away the trees and bushes for the animals to live on and near giving them no shelter. The last way also very common for human impact would be hunting, several animals are killed due to people wanting it for clothing,food and decoration. Over the past years hunting has triggered a increase in in depletion of animals. This has led to removing species that are important to the rainforests function. The loss of these species could lead to other animals becoming extinct and then lead to the Amazon having little to no …show more content…
Below is the graph of the cycle. The nitrogen cycle ties into the tropical rainforest also in many ways. One of them being that Nitrogen is a very important factor for all plants and animals. The nitrogen is brought into the soil and water when the plant dies it also can be brought into the soil when herbivores have eaten the dead plants or in some ways they can excrete nitrogen . Humans affect this cycle in many ways by adding extra nitrogen this can happen with fertilizers and this is releases nitrogen into the air with fossil fuel. In fact, humans add way more nitrogen to the air than the what actually comes from natural sources. Without the nitrogen cycle there would be very limited to non growth because the rainforest needs nitrogen in the
...ction. Lots of indians die because of the Amazon getting destroyed. The climate is changing because of so much of the disappearing of the rainforest. In every 40 years 20 percent of the Amazon is completely gone. Sadly in about 30 - 40 years we will not have a Amazon rainforest. People are clearing out the Amazon because they want to grow plants and food but we used to have a lot of food but because of the Amazon getting destroying the we don’t have as much, and people want to clear out land for plants and foods but because of destruction the soil will dry out and we will have no more exzotic fruits. As you can see the Amazons environmental problems are devastating.
Farmers are the agents of more rainforest destruction than any other factor. Farmers in rainforest countries are often poor and can't afford to buy land that has already been cultivated.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Deforestation is the clearing of a forest and/or cutting down of trees for human benefits such as agriculture, wood exports, etc. Deforestation is the cause of numerous environmental impacts such as habitat loss, flooding and soil erosion. It can also cause climate change, by reducing the amount of rainfall and changing the amount of sunlight reflected from Earth’s surface and increases the risk of forest . Tree growth is important for biodiversity because they absorb carbon dioxide which is a harmful greenhouse gas . However, since deforestation reduces natural carbon sinks, it disrupts the balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air causing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air to increase. This poses a serious threat since carbon dioxide traps the sun’s heat and radiated light inside the earth’s atmosphere. So, with the increase in carbon dioxide more heat is trapped and thus adding to the effects of global warming. Among the many places where deforestation takes place, Amazon seems to be one of the most affected ones. More than 20 percent of it is already gone, and much more of it is severely threatened due to deforestation . It is estimated that the Amazon alone is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year .
There are many rainforests in the world but one of the biggest one is the Amazon rainforest, which is located in the northern half of South America and lies in the countries of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. The Amazon also lies in between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. The size of the Amazon resembles the size of the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. Since this rain forest lies next to the Equator, the climate is warm and humid. The average temperature is in between sixty-eight to ninety- three degrees. The Amazon has two seasons but each one is six months each. They are classified as the wet season and the dry season. The wet season occurs between December to May and the dry season occurs between June to November. The average rainfall is fifty to two hundred and sixty inches per year. The forest floor only gets up to two to five percent of sunlight since the canopy blocks the sunlight from getting to the forest floor. The Amazon rain forest got the nickname, the world’s pharmacy, because many medicines have been found in the tree bark, the tree’s leaves, and other parts of the trees.
The research paper will discuss and consider the long term negative effect in the Amazon rainforest which is caused by deforestation. First, the paper will present the cause and effect of land deforestation. Another consideration is endangered species extinction that leads to effect the Amazon’s biodiversity. Finally, the paper will focus on how climate transformation and global warming affect the Amazon and what should people do in order to save the forests and solve those problems.
The largest rainforests are in the Amazon River Basin South America, the Congo River Basin western Africa, and throughout much of southeast Asia. Smaller rainforests are located in Central America, Madagascar, Australia and nearby islands, India, and other locations in the tropics.This region was once entirely covered with rainforest, but large areas have been cleared for cattle ranching and for sugar cane plantations. Like other major rainforests, the jungles and mangrove swamps of Central America contain many plants and animals found nowhere else. Central America is famous for its large number of tropical birds, including many kinds of parrots.
In South America lies the largest and most wondrous rainforest in the world, the Amazon Rainforest. This 1.4 billion acre forest represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most bio-diverse tract of rainforest in the world. Ten percent of all known species on the planet are found in this rain forest, most of which have yet to be discovered. For the past century, the Amazon has been gradually decreasing in size due to agricultural expansion, ranching, infrastructure projects, energy exploration and illegal logging. In its current state, the Amazon is losing land equal to the size of the state of Delaware every year.
The natural resource of wood is being used at an unsustainable rate, with minimal effort to change societal views on the depletion of this valuable natural resource. Much of the wood we use today comes from old-growth tropical forests, and in many regions it is harvested illegally. Recently in England, it was revealed that the major department store, Marks&Spencers, made much of its garden furniture out of Nyato wood which was logged illegally from Indonesian rainforests. Looking at this problem from a micro-level orientation, we can clearly see how the actions of individuals in both Britain and Indonesia affect one another.
Wiebelt, Manfred. "Stopping Deforestation in the Amazon: Trade-off between Ecological and Economic Targets?" Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 131, no. 3 (1995): 542-68. Manfred Wiebelt is an economist for World Economy and Honorary and a professor at Christian Albrechts University. His researches are focused on the interface between macro, resource economy, resource based development, and commercial and agricultural policy in developing countries.
People around the world are becoming more and more alarmed at the speed forests are being cut down. Deforestation happens for a number of reasons, one of them is to create space for new businesses such as farming. Another one is logging. Logging can be either done selectively or cutting out the whole forest/area (clear-cutting). The purpose of logging is usually to sell timber from which a number of things can be made such as furniture.
The Human Impact on Rainforests Human Impact on Rainforest is it a necessity? Rainforest are the beautiful gift of Mother Nature. It consists of the most magnificent species and plants in the world. 4.2% of the world’s animals live in the rainforest. This statistic it self shows how bad it would be to destroy such essential part of the worlds biodiversity.
It is estimated that within 100 years there will be no rainforests. Throughout the evolution of mankind humans have been populating all over the world and since they are evolving they had the eager to civilize thus land space being needed in order to do so which causes what will be the most devastating word in the next 10-20 years called deforestation. Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-forest land for use such as arable land, pasture, urban use, logged area, or wasteland. Rainforests today are disappearing at an alarming rate as a result of deforestation and this have been causing the distraction of our planet which is why it should stop.
Simply speaking, rainforests are basically the foundation of the earth. The most important role that rainforests play is ‘the lungs of the earth’. This is extremely vital to the earth’s survival as the trees and plants absorb carbon dioxide which they use to help grow and let out oxygen which we need to live. This system is known as the carbon-oxygen cycle and with numbers of rainforests declining, it is highly threatened. The largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon, alone is known to produce half of the world’s oxygen. A break down in the carbon-oxygen cycle means that we will not only have less oxygen, but an increase in carbon dioxide which eventually leads to global warming. This occurs as carbon dioxide traps heat which actually keeps the earth warm, with the right amount of carbon dioxide that is. This is called the greenhouse effect and occurs naturally however due to decreasing number of trees, there is more carbon dioxide than needed which traps extra heat making the earth hotter than needed, this is known as global warming which also causes a rise in sea level.
Tropical rainforests have many species of plants and animals. They are very interesting and many scientists today study it. Rainforests are an important part of our environment and it is important for us to protect it. That’s why we have to stop global warming.
The Amazon Rainforest is the world's largest tropical rainforest that we have today on our planet. It covers a wide range expanding almost entirely across from East to West of South America. It is most famous for its broad biodiversity and includes the famous Amazon River that is home to rare and diverse species. Today, the Amazon Rainforest is under threat of complete deforestation and has greatly lost more than half of its tropical rainforest due to cattle ranching, soy bean farming, sugar cane plantations, palm oil and biofuel agriculture. The indigenous people are doing their best to fight against the government to protect their land and conserve the rainforest but without capital finance, it is seeming to be an impossible project.