My intention is to try to save and stop the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest, deforestation means the removal of trees. It is happening at an alarming rate.It is estimated that an area of Rainforest about the size of a football pitch (one and a half acres) is destroyed each second.

In the Amazon Rainforest, around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years.

Causes of deforestation

Commercial logging companies cut down trees for timber, which is mostly sold to developed countries. In most cases, large areas of forest are destroyed just to remove a few highly valued trees. The effect of this devastation has lasting consequences:

• heavy machinery compacts soil and makes it more vulnerable to erosion
• silt is washed into rivers
• logging roads open up the area to new settlers who remove even more trees

Problems caused by deforestation

• Less plant and animal species - biodiversity.
• Loss of habitats - places for animals to live.
• Loss of sources of medicine.
• Soil erosion.
• Loss of soil nutrients.
• Silting-up of rivers.
• Flooding.
• Global warming and rising sea levels - burning trees releases greenhouse gases which add to global warming. Trees take in carbon dioxide and reduce the effects of global warming.

Loss of biodiversity
Many different species of plants and animals die because of deforestation. As plants and animals are closely connected through the food web, this reduces the biodiversity, or variety of species and plants found in the tropical Amazon Rainforest.

Climate change
The trees and plants in the Amazon Rainforest absorb carbon dioxide during the process of photosynthesis. If there are fewer trees and plants, due to deforestation, then less carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere. In this way deforestation contributes to global warming and therefore climate change.

Road building
Loggers and miners build roads to get their materials out. People use the roads to enter the forest and build new settlements and set up industries.

Fuelwood
Many people rely on wood for their main source of fuel, particularly in developing countries. As the population grows, more wood is chopped down.

Settlement
Land is being cleared for new homes and settlements. There is more need for these in countries with increasing populations, especially around large overcrowded cities.

The whole Amazon Rainforest is always being destroyed as we speak, and quite frankly I have a desire and strongly! think! there should be a law against all this deforestation, and harm to the environment in the Amazon rainforest!

(REGROW ALL THE TREES!) which have been cut for palm oil!)

REGROW ALL THE TREES IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST!

Jair Bolsonaro, stop caring (about money more than the Environment!) (it’s not acceptable!)

(The more votes! (the more of a chance we have! of us getting heard quicker)

the poor Amazon rainforest, !! (STOP DESTROYING THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST) !! and grow more trees URGENTLY! 
as Greta Thunberg would say !