Disappearance of the Amazon Rain Forest and Effect it has on the Environment Today and Tomorrow

The disappearance of the Amazon Rain Forest has been an issue for both scientists and researchers and also the very people of the world for decades. Since the world’s tropical rain forests, specially the Amazon Rain Forest, are disappearing at a very alarming rate the time has come to stop the senseless slaughter of so much flaura and fauna. Presently, the amount of tropical rain forests that exist in today’s world is only a fragment of what it was in the past. We have only begun to reap the rewards of our need for natural resources and or insatiable appetite for all things exotic and tropical.

Just Begun to Understand

The Amazon Rain Forest has such a wide spread affect on the environment that any amount of disappearance of that highly important rain forest will be felt immediately. We have only just begun to understand and explore the Amazon Rain Forest and already it is disappearing right there before our very eyes. What started out as an economical sustainable food and building source for the peoples of the Amazon has slowly turned in to a rapidly shrinking natural wonder.

Extinction of Hundreds Possibly Tens of Thousands of Unique Species

When the last of the Amazon Rain Forest has been leveled and the extinction of not only hundreds but possibly tens of thousands of yet to be discovered plant and animal species will be gone forever, then we will realize what it is that we have done. What’s amazing and heartbreaking is that we as a human race understand the immense role that the Amazon Forest has on not only the South American region but the environment of the world. What tragic environmental forces will be unleashed once the rain forests have disappeared 100% and only a marker stands in its place?

South American Jewel

Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn lies the South American Jewel that is the Amazon Rain Forest. If we continue to slash and burn and take from this vital environmental area the world as we know it will be changed forever. Just as the great ice sheets and ice fields of the polar caps are important to overall global warming so is the radiant heat that is absorbed and dispersed from the Amazon Rain Forest. The Earth is all about balance in nature and stewardship of the human race that was designed to not abuse this Mother Earth but to be a great care taker.

Preserve and Protect

It is imperative that what remains of the tropical rain forests and the Amazon Rain Forest in particular is preserved and protected. The fear that runs through so many researchers and environmentalist minds is that we are seemingly powerless to stop our own destruction of the Amazon Rain Forest. That sounds a bit like a nightmare and one that we will all wake up from and find our home, planet Earth, radically different both environmentally and socially for the loss of the Amazon Rain Forest. All rain forests of the earth must be protected and without this vastly important environmental area to ward off what we do not understand in the world today environmentally we will be left lamenting the loss of a great bio-source of diversity and hope.