Endangered species- Amazon rainforest

The biggest impact on the Amazon rain forest is the activities of humans. Growing population needs the space and the trees are cut down because people need jobs and the wood can make a lot of money for lumbering companies. Unfortunately, even the people who depend on the rain forest are the ones contributing to its decline.

The Amazon rain forest has a huge number of symbiotic flora and fauna; plants and creatures that have adapted to depend on each other to live. Many hundreds of species are unique to the Amazon rain forest, found nowhere else on earth. As the rain forest diminishes, the amount of habitat available for the life forms there gets smaller and smaller and will only support a smaller number of them. When a certain minimal number for any living thing reaches a certain point, that thing can't reproduce sufficiently to keep the species going. In the rain forest, when one species dies out, all the ones dependent on it also die out. Eventually, you get a domino effect; as species number two and number three are gone the dozen or so things that depend on them die out, and so on.

Many creatures with very short life cycles can start to disappear quickly, creating the domino effect from the bottom up. Creatures with longer life cycles often need larger territories to sustain their lifestyles and the loss of space will begin the decline from the top down. As it has in many places in the world, the whole forest will eventually reach a point of no return.