What Will Happen If The Amazon Rainforest Is Cut Down?

    • Dheeraj.Jangra@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: May 27 2016 2:57PM
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    • Updated Date: May 27 2016 2:57PM
What Will Happen If The Amazon Rainforest Is Cut Down?

The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. It covers some 40 per cent of the South American continent and includes parts of eight South American countries. The forest is home  to more than two-and- a-half million different species of insect, 40,000-odd varieties of plant, 1,500 bird species and 2,000-odd species of birds.

A complete washout of the forest would dramatically alter the ecological balance on Earth. It would increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the air significantly, making it extremely harmful for inhalation. Presently, the forest provides more than 20 per cent of the world’s oxygen supply. A complete destruction of the forest would make the soil weak, preventing any kind of afforestation in future. When tropical forests are destroyed, it adversely affects the rainfall in the adjoining areas as well.

Currently, several medicines are made from plants sourced from these forests. Interestingly, much of the research behind these medicines has been put together from the suggestions passed on by tribes, not by scientific testing. Rapid deforestation during the past 40 years has shrunk the forest by around 20 per cent. Scientists believe that if the present rate continues, the rainforest would cease to exist in around 40 years. 

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Bideepta DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL GURGAON SEC45 D

wow that is amazing

Ronit.R National Hill View Public School

we have to do something to protect this bounty provided to us by nature

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