How To Protect The Amazon Rainforest Essay

Imagine going on a tour throughout the Amazon Rainforest. To your right you see a variety of exotic animals and insects. To your left, you then see a ton of rare species of plants that you have never seen before. Finally, ahead of you are tribes of many people. You are soaking in all these amazing sights until suddenly, you hear the sound of wrecking balls and chainsaws destroying everything in it’s path making you feel like someone is pounding at your brain, causing a horrific headache. Horrible right? This is why protecting the Amazon Rainforest is important to the people, animal, insect and plant life. Not to mention, the species that live in this rainforest are actually living in the last rainforest existing in the world. Getting rid of the last rainforest standing can

create permanent damage to the world and everything that lives on it. Plus, we won’t have any more rainforests to admire!
We should protect the last rainforest because the Amazon Rainforest is a natural habitat to the animals, insects, and reptiles, living there. If people decide that they want to keep the last rainforest standing, we would be protecting so many species of animals. According to ReadWorks, “the rainforest consists of 40,000 plant species, 2.5 million insect species, 378 reptile species, and 427 mammal species.” Rainforests are known to keep the animal species alive. But on the other hand, if people cut away at the rainforest, so many species of animals will die because of the lack of food source and shelter. Although this seems like a lot, there are still many other reasons we need to protect the rainforest.
Another reason we should protect the rainforest is because there are tribes living in the rainforest and if the rainforest got taken away, not only will the tribes become affected by this action, but the non-local people and animals will become affected too.

The tribes that live in the rainforest rely on their food sources and other resources there. Destroying their land is taking away from their habitat and home. Doing this would also take away from the other species of plants, animals, and insects too! The people living in the Amazon can die of hunger because of the actions of destruction. Although people that live in the Amazon can get affected by taking away the amazon, people that do not live near the rainforest will also be affected too. Also, if people are going to decide they want to destroy the rainforest, putting holes in the earth and chopping down trees will cause people and animals to die. In Readworks they said, “others are digging holes in the earth to look for oil or gas reserves. And still others are cutting down trees for lumber… This is a big problem for several reasons.” This shows that by doing all these terrible actions, it’s causing problems for most people and

animals.
Last, the plants that live in the Amazon are the oxygen source for the animals and people living there, and the animals and plants living in the U.S and other countries. In fact, according to NPR, Ivo Cassol states that “...the Amazon is the lungs of the world, they’re going to have to pay us to breathe.” Ivo Cassol didn’t literally mean that the people who cut down the trees will have to pay everyone money. He means they will have to “pay” us with trees because trees are the “lungs of the world”. We also need these trees because they absorb the carbon dioxide which actually, can kill people. Carbon dioxide is what we breathe out after we breathe in the oxygen coming from the trees. Not only do we use the trees of the Amazon for an oxygen source, but doctors also use the trees leaves to create medicines for people all around the world too. Who knows, maybe the Amazon’s trees are going to make someone’s or something’s illness go away.
In conclusion, this is why we should keep the rainforest. If people get rid of it, all these examples listed above can create the permanent damage to the world that will for sure affect every single species in the world. The people, plants, animals, and even insects rely on each other. We need to keep the Amazon, to avoid the permanent damage to the world.