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The Destruction of the amazon rainforest
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THE DESTRUCTION OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST The Amazon Rainforest is a huge foray of shrub life, trees and exotic natural beauty. The Amazon is in South America, but very most Northern of the continent. The Amazon is fully Self-Supportive ecosystem, with natural "resident wildlife", river system, rich growth and unique unexplored elements and advancements. However, as time goes on, we as humans continue to consume more resources and so begin to eat away at the rich life the Amazon contains. The Amazon is a very fragile ecosystem; if you take one piece away (for example, the trees), the whole system will collapse (no protection for soil below, erosion occurs and so further plant life struggle to grow). "We are shocked to see that the rate of forest loss is now even worse than the late 1980s", says Sarah Tyack of Friends of the Earth. Destruction of the Amazon rainforest has almost returned to the same pace...
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