Amazon rain forests going extinct

 "Amazon Rain forests will be gone in 50 years"

"One tree can make a million matches,One match can destroy a million trees"

Amazon rainforest is the most biodiverse region on earth, providing shelter to three million species on plants and animals. Billions of trees absorb tons of carbon dioxide every year and slow down the climate change along with producing 20% of earth’s oxygen, hence named ‘Lungs of Earth.’ The center also claims that about 99% of Amazon fires start from human actions, either on purpose or by accident.

Thousands of fires are burning across a southern swath of the Amazon. They belch smoke and soot, blanketing those who live downwind with thick, dirty air, hurting wildlife in their path and destroying part of one the most important carbon storehouses left on the planet.

About 76,000 fires were burning across the Brazilian Amazon at last official count, an increase of over 80 percent over the same time period last year, according to data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Since then, even more fires have appeared in the satellite imagery that scientists use to assess the extent and intensity of burning, and they expect the number to increase over coming months as the dry season intensifies.

From June to December, the southern Amazon Basin dries out, and fires can become a concern. Most are caused by human activity, especially clearing lands for farming.

The fires themselves are destructive and devastating, but their primary cause is more concerning, says Ane Alencar, the director of science at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM).

“The majority of the fires we’re seeing now are because of deforestation,” she says. “It’s crazy. We reduced deforestation by almost 65 percent in the past. We proved that we could do that. And now we’re going backwards.

"Don't destroy the greenery and don't spoil the scenery"

Amazon contains one in 10 known species on Earth, 40,000 plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species, and more than 370 types of reptiles. Over 2,000 new species of plants and vertebrates, including a monkey that purrs like a cat, have been described since 1999.

Depletion of these forests will cause a big problem for our nature and uncountable number of wild species will go extinct.

"Plant a tree, plant a tree, so that next generation can get air for free"

              "Don't make an animal homeless"