#desforestation

🔥 The Amazon Rainforest has been on fire for 3 weeks and cities are being covered with thick clouds of smoke making the days look like nights and we didn’t know about it sooner because the lack of media coverage.

🌿 The rainforest contributes to 20% of the planets oxygen - they are our lungs, they help reduce CO2 emissions.

🦋 It’s home to over 2,000 species and thousands of indigenous people.

🐆 We’re losing a vital aspect of Earth because people want to clear the land for mining and farming.

🌸 We shouldn’t be the reason why Earth’s natural wonders are shrinking, future generation deserve to know what it’s like having the #amazonrainforest not learning about it in a history book.

Deforested mountainsides in Borneo, the world's third-largest island, are seen in this Feb. 24 photograph taken by Greenpeace during an aerial survey mission. Over the last few decades, the Borneo rainforest, which is home to 15,000 plant species, 3,000 tree species, and more than 600 animal species, has been burned, logged, and cleared to make way for agricultural land, including palm oil plantations. In 1975, rainforest covered 73 percent of the island; by 2005, only 50 percent was covered.