Title: “Amazon forest in danger”

General: To inform
Specific purpose: After listening to our speech, audience members will be aware
of the serious consequences of Amazon rainforest devastated and take steps to
preserve it.
Thesis: Too few people understand how important the Amazon forest is and the
impact of destroying forest leads to severe climate change.

Introduction
I. Attention-getter: Flying above the Amazon fires, ‘all you can see is
dead.’
II. Preview

Body
I. How important is the Amazon to the world?
A. The Amazon is known as the lungs of Earth.
1. It is a Carbon storage.
- The Forest absorb and store carbon dioxide, helping to lower
- The greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. (Living trees take
in carbon dioxide, which they need to grow. Dead trees release
their stored carbon back into the atmosphere, through decay.)
2. Plants under natural conditions provides benefits.
- Increasing air quality and humidity levels.
- Keeping air temperature down.
- Saving energy.

B. The Amazon contains a huge biodiversity.

1. The Amazon is home to various number of species.
a. It is the home to over 2,000 species of animals.
- The Amazon Rainforest is home to 427 mammal species, 1,300
bird species, 378 species of reptiles, and more than 400 species of
amphibians. Some of the animals that live in the Amazon Rainforest
include jaguars, sloths, river dolphins, macaws, anacondas, glass frogs,
and poison dart frogs. One in ten known species in the world lives in the
Amazon Rainforest as do one in five known bird species.
 b. It is home to an estimated 40,000 plant species.
- The Amazon Rainforest's 1,500 different flowering plants and
750 types of trees can all be found in one four square mile area.
- Rainforest plants are used in some of the world's most important,
life-saving medicines.
2. Contains Amazon river
- It is the second longest river in the world about 4,000 miles or
6,450 km long.
- It contains one fifth of the earth’s fresh water.

C. The Amazon rainforest provides benefits.

1. Rivers are the main vectors for transportation.
- It is the only method of transportation for local residents and
companies doing business in the area. Many natural resources
such as trees, agricultural crops and minerals make their way
out navigating the rivers and into the cities.
2. The rainforest helps prevent climate change.
- Forests help stabilize the climate. They regulate ecosystems,
protect biodiversity, play an integral part in the carbon cycle,
support livelihoods, and can help drive sustainable growth.
- Not only do they regulate global temperatures, they also cool
and regulate local micro-climates and limit the Earth’s
reflectivity - which in turn stabilizes ocean currents, wind, and
rainfall patterns.
3. A huge source of protein.
- Fishes in Amazon Basin tributaries are a huge source of protein
in the region. Annual floods replenish nutrients in floodplain
areas used for agriculture.
- The palm tree which grows naturally in the Amazon rainforest
and comes with its berries, rich in protein and minerals, can be
harvested without harming the forest or the species that live
there.
 4. Annual floods replenish nutrients in floodplain areas used for
agriculture.

II. What are the problems of the Amazon?

A. The Amazon rate reduced badly due to:
1. Human acts in deforestation.
2. Serious burnt in a long period of time.
B. Wildlife in the Amazon is in danger.
1. Lack of natural habitat to live in.
2. Being burnt in the long fires lately.

III. The impact of the Amazon’ problems on climate change, people and
wildlife.
A. Affects on climate change and people.
1. Increased global temperature.
- Intact forests in the region, with less than 5% canopy loss, had
the most climate stability over the ten years, showing only
small increases in temperature.
- Areas that had tree cover reduced to below 70% warmed
0.44°C more than neighbouring intact forests during the study
period.
- The differences between intact and disturbed forests were most
pronounced during the driest part of the year, when temperature
increases of up to 1.5°C were observed in areas affected by
severe deforestation. This increase is additional to global
temperature rises driven by climate change.
2. Became international political concern.
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B. Threaten to the wildlife: 265 endangered species.
1. Endangered and eliminated the animals of the Amazon.
2. The loss of ecosystem threaten capability of plants.

IV. Solutions to protect the Amazon.

A. Restore the Amazon area.
1. Ending deforestation.
 - Through collaboration with the forestry industry making sure
paper producers take seriously their responsibility to carefully
and sustainably manage, harvest in, and sourced from these
forests, while also supporting local economies.
- Another way to combat deforestation is to just simply plant a
tree. But you can still take another step further by making sure
the choices of product you make at home, the store, school
don’t contribute to the overall problem.
2. Minimizing the risk of forest fire.
- Through many efforts to improve/support sustainable land
management and reduce future deforestation and development
could offer the best defenses against the escalating threat
wildfires pose due to the increased heat and drought brought by
escalating climate change.
- By supporting the Forest Maintenance for Fire Prevention
and many of the researches on different levels of flammability
and rates which will help greatly in reducing the danger of
fires.
B. Conserve plants and animals.
1. Stopping illegal hunting.
- As a consumer, you’ll have to be more aware of the
certification of a product as you may not think–like furniture
and paper–can also contribute to unsafe wildlife practices.
Certified Products will ensure several things: that all trees cut
down are replaced or allowed to re-grow naturally, that parts
of the forest of origin are left untouched.
- Start a petition with your local government to stop/restrict
illegal animal parts trade, pledging your support toward
preventing all potential threats to the wildlife.
2. Improving ecosystem.
- By making the ecological awareness part of your social fabric
and culture, educate yourself and everyone else more about the
complex relationships between living things and their
 environment, you already contributed greatly in improving the
ecosystem.
- Recycling is one of the most common yet cannot be
overlooked. You can recycle many household items, including
computers, printer cartridges, aluminum cans, paper, plastic
bottles, milk jugs, batteries, steel containers, glass, etc.
Conclusion
I. Review of main points.
II. Final remarks: Refer back to our opening example, restate thesis: “The
Amazon rainforest is in danger and if we do not take step to reserve it,
the lungs of Earth will be disappeared and life on Earth will be threaten
seriously.”