Effects of the Amazon Wildfires on the Biodiversity of the Forest

Alingayao, Mitch John Lee C.

Junior High School Department

Future Generation Philippine International School

Social Studies 8

Ms. Gennica Hugo

November 11, 2020

Chapter 1: Introduction

A. Background of the Study

B. Statement of the Problem

C. Significance of the Project

D. Scope of Delimitation

E. Definition of Terms

Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature

A. What are the effects of the Amazon Wildfires on its biodiversity?

B. What is Amazon’s fire’s impact on wildlife?

C. If the fires stopped, could the Amazon Forest be fully restored to a healthy state?

Chapter 3: Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendation

A. Summary

B. Conclusion

C. Recommendation

Bibliography
 I: Introduction

A. Background of the Study

Due to climate change brought up by human actions, unexpected droughts have

occurred in typically wet areas. Many forests are susceptible to wildfires with negative

consequences for this Biodiversity in the last decade. The Amazon Rainforest is under threat

from more frequent and intense forest fires. Raging fires can destroy trees and the understory

of the tropical forest. The trees are badly damaged; the plants and animals living near the

ground are also highly vulnerable.

The Amazon forest's essential fire defense is its ability to create a damp understory

microclimate. Roads, deforestation, droughts, and climate change have made this natural

defense less effective. Due to the rise of climate change, the intensity of wildfires increases,

cause the massive susceptibility of Wildfires. Fires do not occur naturally in the Amazon

Rainforest, but the wildfire vulnerability is high due to the rising climate change. The loss in

wildlife, climate change, and wellbeing. The Amazon fires grabbed the world’s attention at

the end of August 2019 is a calamity of immense proportions to our shared climate, habitat

destruction, and wellbeing.

The Amazon Rainforest is home to several different wildlife species, and these fires

will ruin their habitats. One-in-ten recognized species on Earth were found in the Amazon.

These fires placed animals at risk and put additional pressure on endangered species. We

know that Amazon fires can significantly impact numerous wildlife populations, adding that

fires could pressure species that are already at risk. Fires primarily impact wildlife by

affecting their environment. Fires also cause a short-term rise in food for nature, leading to an

increase in the number of individual species. These increases are moderated by the animals'
ability to thrive in the environment, often simplified, the postfire environment’s structure.

Fires are arising from unregulated deforestation, pollution of the air millions of people

breathing, impacting health across the Amazon Rainforest.

B. Statement of the Problem

This study was conducted to raise awareness of wildfires and their effects on the Amazon

Rainforest’s biodiversity.

● What are the effects of the Amazon Wildfires on its Biodiversity?

● How might the fires' aftermath affect wildlife in the Rainforest?

● Can the Amazon recover from the wildfires?

C. Significance of the Project

This topic is significant for readers because it informs them of the problems in the

Amazon Rainforest. It would give them a more comprehensive range and perspective of the

rise in climate change through the years that have passed by and the adverse effects that will

cause by these problems. This could provide knowledge about Brazil's current situation like

the deforestation for farmland, illegal poaching, wetland degradation, and water pollution.

This gives ideas on how we could help solve further outbreak of massive wildfires. This

could also make young readers understand the harmful effects of these issues for further years

and the consequences it could bring for the Earth.

D. Scope and Delimitation

and the endangerment of wildlife. It often concentrates primarily on the negative impact both

on animals and on humans. This will remind you of the growth in climate change and

greenhouse gas growth over the years. It addresses how the future of the Amazon rainforest

might be and if their hope for recovery is high. Finally, it tells and addresses the effects of the

wildfires, loss of habitats, and the increase in climate change over the last ten years.

II: Review of Related Literature

A. The Effects of the Amazon Wildfires on its Biodiversity

The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most spectacular areas of the world, but much of

it is poorly known. The Amazon is home to over 40,000 species of flowering plants and,

according to some studies, is home to some 400 billion trees of more than 16,000 species.

Amazon is the most biodiverse land on the planet. This remarkable Rainforest is home to

more birds, plants, and mammals than anywhere else in the world. It plays an essential role in

controlling world oxygen and carbon dioxide, which also provides about six percent of the

world's oxygen. It also can consume significant quantities of carbon dioxide from the

atmosphere.

The Effects of The Amazon Wildfires on Biodiversity could cause a large percent of

the Rainforest to be wiped out and put many animals endangered and at risk. Most of the fires

are caused by human activity, especially for clearing lands for farming. According to NASA,

"We are in the year where the Rainforest has been the driest it has been in more than a

decade. This poses a tremendous threat to wildfires, and we could not be lucky enough to get

the next one out of the rain until it does any more harm to the already declining ecosystem".

Other than the destruction caused by the depletion of valuable habitats, wildfires emit large

quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, leading to global warming thousands of fires
burning across the Amazon. About 76 000 fires burned across the Brazilian Amazon at the

last official count, a rise of over 80 percent over the same time last year, according to research

from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Since then, there have been more

fires in the satellite images used by scientists to measure the severity of the burning, and they

expect the number to rise over the coming months of the dry season.

These fires do not occur naturally in the Amazon rainforest, Since the rise of the

biodiversity gasses. So, for fires to burn in a standing forest, a few things must happen,

namely a dry year and many ignition sources on neighboring lands. These sources, almost

exclusively human-caused, can arise from agricultural fires. More than 40% of the Brazilian

Amazon fires are burned in standing forests this year, with more than 4.6 million acres

already damaged this year. Raging fires can destroy trees and the understory of the tropical

forest. Trees die terribly, but plants and animals living nearer to the field are still incredibly

vulnerable.

B. The Amazon fires impact on wildlife

Amazon holds massive amounts of resources and wildlife. These fires could also

harm many wildlife habitats, especially the endangered animals like the jaguars, pumas,

tapirs, and koalas. Some of these species are already vulnerable species, and some may even

go extinct and the biodiversity. These fires' long-term effects could damage the Rainforest as

the biodiversity will be altered, and some species are vulnerable enough to go extinct. The

numerous developments have caused extensive destruction of forests. The fragmented

landscape in the Amazon experience undergoes multiple changes and is particularly prone to

droughts and fires, which may have a detrimental effect on a wide range of animal species.
 In Conclusion. Forest fires will do significant damage to plants and all living things

within them. Unfortunately, this disruption also applies to the rest of the earth, impacting the

atmosphere and biogeochemical processes such as the carbon cycle.