Amazon Rainforests

The Amazon Rainforest was once called the “lungs of the Earth”. Does that moniker hold?

• The Amazon rainforest houses one of the largest ecosystems of flora and fauna, the mighty Amazon river which sustains 30 million people and has a number of indigenous tribes.
• Over the last decade though, things are looking grim for the rainforest with commercial interests destroying forest cover and some parameters reaching a tipping point.
• Rising deforestation and Jair Bolsanaro’s anti-environment policies are adding fuel to the forest fires that are devastating the Amazon.
• The indigenous tribes living within the Amazon rainforest, who have lived sustainably for millenia have to reconcile to parts of forests getting drier.
• Rising deforestation in Brazil is one of the leading causes of the Amazon approaching a tipping point, but Brazil had contained it in the past.