Terrible consequences of the Amazon forest fire

Amazon forest fires, the planet's lungs, will cause human and Earth to suffer catastrophic consequences.

The culprit is human

Fire bushes at Guaranta do Norte, Mato Grosso state, Brazil.(Photo: CNN).

According to CNN, organizations and environmental researchers say fires are devastating the Brazilian rainforest because cattle farmers and loggers want to clear up to make use of forest land.

Christian Poirier, Amazon Watch's nonprofit program director, said: 'Most of these fires are man-made.' He said that even in the dry season, the moist Amazon forest does not catch fire like the arid bushland of California or Australia.

Farmers and cattle raisers have long used fire to clear land and may be the culprits causing unusual fires in Amazon in recent days.

The Brazilian Space Research Center (INPE) said that the number of fires in Brazil was 80% higher than last year. More than half happen in the Amazon area, causing disaster for the ecosystem and the environment in the area.

Alberto Setzer, senior scientist at INPE, said 99% of fires are human consequences, whether intentional or unintentional.

Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said August 21 on Twitter that wildfires are caused by dry, windy and hot weather. However, meteorologists say that Amazon forest fires are certainly caused by humans and cannot be poured into natural causes like lightning.

Environmental researchers and conservationists fear that Brazil's forest clearing policy is the culprit of forest fires and will only make the climate change crisis worse.

Catastrophic consequences

Smoke rises in the forest fire in the state of Amazonas, Brazil on August 11.(Photo: AFP / VNA)

Amazon forests produce about 20% of the world's oxygen and are often called the planet's lungs. According to the International Fund for Nature Protection, if the Amazon forest is destroyed, it can begin to emit carbon - the main driver of climate change.

Compared to previous years, the damage of the Amazon forest fire this year is unprecedented.

Robin Chazdon, Professor at the University of Connecticut, said: 'The effect of deforestation in Amazon is not just encapsulated in Amazon. It affects all of us. '

This week, the media reported on the startling sight of the dense smoke from the Amazon wildfire flying as far as 3,200km, covering the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, making the city dark in the middle of the day.

However, Professor Chazdon said there is more risk that people have not realized. She said: 'There are great consequences for global climate change because the fire emits carbon. If the rainforest is not regenerated or replanted, the forest will not be able to restore carbon absorption. '

Large rainforests play an important role in the world's ecosystem because they absorb heat instead of reflecting back into the atmosphere. Rainforest also absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, ensuring less carbon emissions and mitigating the effects of climate change.

Amazon forest fires have serious consequences for climate change.(Photo: Alamy)

However, with intense forest fires, research shows that it may take more than a century to recover the carbon dioxide absorption that the forest has lost.

Ms. Chazdon said: 'The forest can grow back after the fire but it will not be possible if fire happens every few years if forest land is turned into agricultural land.'

The Amazon forest is narrowed and turned into vacant land can make forest function impossible to recover easily.

According to CNBC, the Amazon rainforest stretches 9 countries and is the world's largest rainforest, about half the size of the United States.

Brazil has more than 72,000 forest fires this year.(Photo: Reuters).

INPE said the Amazon forest burns with a record rate. Only this year and only in Brazil has more than 74,000 fires, nearly double the number of 2018 cases.

According to data analysis of the US Aeronautics Agency, in the past three months, Brazil has seen wildfires more than doubled compared to the same period in 2018.

Ecologists insist that the more forests they lose, the more scary the consequences. Amazon trees help bring water from the soil into the atmosphere, creating the necessary precipitation for other areas. Ecological diversity will also be lost and this will be heavy damage to the planet. Tens of thousands of tree species. Hundreds of thousands of insects and other wild life forms in the Amazon forest will be affected. We will lose millions and millions of animals.

Therefore, Amazon forest protection and restoration has never been more urgent than now.

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