Have you heard about The Amazon? When I say this I don’t mean the way you get your package, I mean the rainforest. Well, it has been burning. This is sad considering this place has the most biodiversity in the world. It is also responsible for at least 10% of our oxygen.
But it has been chopped so fast it is 2x the size of India and 17% percent of it is already gone. Farmers have been using this technique called burn and slash to make farmland for crops.
Ways to save the Amazon
One way to help save the Amazon is to have a sustainable diet and “eat more sustainable foods”. A lot of food like soy, chocolate, coffee, beef. Have been responsible for the destruction of the Amazon. 80% of the Amazon has been chopped or burned because of agriculture.
Another way to save the Amazon is to reduce paper and timber consumption.
So one way to reduce consumption of paper and timber is to use a smaller font, stop using junk mail, instead of storing information with paper you should use computers.
A way that is both cheaper and helps save lives is to buy lab grown diamonds. People cut down trees in rainforests to find diamonds. The reason is that diamonds are made of carbon and trees are made of carbon, so dead trees compress into diamonds. Also you are saving kids’ lives because they are forced to mine.
The last way to save the Amazon is to tell your parents about the Amazon. So now you can spread the news and help others protect it.
Bibliography
“10 Things You Can Do to Protect the Rainforest .” Rainforest Foundation US, 24 Sept. 2024, rainforestfoundation.org/engage/10-things-you-can-do/.
“About the Amazon.” WWF, wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/amazon/about_the_amazon/. Accessed 24 Sept. 2024.
