Sloths and Macaws The top 10 list for them. by Desai, Tanmay

Many food chains are getting effected by De-forestation

2602604_1 — 2025-04-10 21:01:13 UTC

Over 100,000 food chains exist in the amazon and they could all be wiped out if the Amazon is destroyed.

2563696 — 2025-04-10 21:12:56 UTC

Temperatures are globally rising because of climate change which is because of CO2 being released from trees when they are cut down. 1.3 billion tons of CO2 are released per year. Clearing and burning tropical forests accounts for about 20% of global annual Greenhouse Gas emissions. An estimated 150-200 billion tons of carbon are stored in the Amazon Rainforest's and soils.

More Severe Weather Patterns

2602604_1 — 2025-04-10 21:15:58 UTC

Nobre at al. who is a scientist in Brazil predicted a nearly 60% rainfall reduction and a 2 °C increase in the near-surface air temperature over the Amazon.

Saving resources for future needs

2602604_1 — 2025-04-10 21:23:19 UTC

The amazon has extensive wood reserves, fruit and nuts, and minerals such as gold, bauxite (the main constituent of aluminium), iron ore, and silver, all the materials that can be used in case of a global apocalypse or something that can harm the humans

The Amazon is home to 10% of wildlife species that we know of so if the Amazon Rainforest if cut down then many wildlife species will die

2563696 — 2025-04-10 21:30:12 UTC

It's estimated to contain around 40,000 plant species alone. 427 mammal species, 1,300 bird species, 378 species of reptiles, and more than 400 species of amphibians.

Foods and products like Chocolate, Medicines, Vanilla Seed Pods, Coffee, Avocado and Bananas and Açaí berries have ingredients or come from the Amazon and some other rainforests.

2602604_1 — 2025-04-10 21:30:43 UTC

It's estimated that roughly 80% of the developed world's food supply originated in tropical rainforests, including the Amazon. Around 30,000 medicinal plants and around 12,864 varieties of medicines are in the amazon.

Irreversible Damage to our planet, if the amazon is cut down we could be doomed. Climate Change and Weather Patterns are mostly controlled by the Amazon.

2602604_1 — 2025-04-10 21:33:43 UTC

5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles) of amazon rainforest that stores water and can get cut down.

Native Tribes living in the Amazon Dying.

2602604_1 — 2025-04-14 20:58:17 UTC

The Amazon is home to 47 million people, including more than 2 million indigenous people. All of those people will lose their homeland and their way of living if the amazon is destroyed

Disruptions to the Global Water Cycle

2602604_1 — 2025-04-14 21:04:12 UTC

Places like Nevada will have less water in the future if the amazon forest is cut down. Wet season rainfall as much as 0.6 millimetres a month lower for every percentage point of forest clearing.

Looks appealing to the eye

2602604_1 — 2025-04-14 21:36:15 UTC

Atleast 14,003 plant species, could be up to 107,000 species of plants.

Reasons for deforestation

2563696 — 2025-04-16 01:44:52 UTC

cattle ranching

Move mid-west

agriculture

Move mid-west

logging

Some logging is because of paper which is used to make cardboard, and paper can be made with plastic.

mining

infrastructure development

Infrastructure development can slowly moving to western Brazil.