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Many parts of the world are losing important natural resources, such as forests, animals,
or clean water. Choose one resource that is disappearing and explain why it needs to be saved.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

When the issue of the exhaustion of important natural resources in many parts of the world is
taken into question, different opinions are raised. Many claim that people need to preserve
endangered animal species and freshwater supplies. Others, however, argue that human should
pay more attention to protect remaining forests in the world. I am better convinced of the latter
opinion because of the reasons discussed below.

To begin with, forests should be kept by the human because they are the main factor to sustain
the balance of climate in the Earth. To be specific, forests helps to regulate precipitation and
temperature in the world. In fact, in the water cycle, roots of trees in forest holds a lot of water
from rain, which is important sources to control the water level in lakes, rivers and also amount
water in the evaporation process. Furthermore, forests are an effective method to control the
temperature in the globe. Indeed, trees in forests need to use heat from the sun in their
photosynthesis process, so they decrease the amount of heat absorbed by land and average
temperature. In addition, forests also regulate the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere, hence
they help to prevent the heat island in urban or the global warming trend in the Earth. From a
research on Natural Climate Change journal, it estimates that if all tropical forests are cut down,
the average temperature will increase at least 0.7 Celcius degree. This example shows that people
in the world need to save forests to protect the balance of climate in the Earth.

What is more, forests contribute major part on supplying food and medicine for human.
Precisely, many tribes depend on food from forests to assist the daily’s lives. Indeed, tribes,
especially in Amazon forests, only find food from hunting aminals or gathering fruits in forests.
If forests are destroyed, people in this area will lack the food supplies and will meet many
difficult problems to survive. Moreover, from the research of many pharmacists, many kinds of
plants from forests is suitable to produce safe medicine. It is a plentiful resources to supply
medicine for human. Reports from medicine companies evaluate that at least 500 kinds of plants
in Amazon forests can use to produce medicine. Hence, they proposed some plants should be
protected in the forest in South America. Therefore, people need to save forests because forests
are critical resources of food and medicine for human.

Last but not least, forests have more influence on the harmony of ecosystems in the world. To
be specific, forests are the homes of many species, so the demolish of forests will lead to the
extinction of tremendous species. When immense animals in the food chain are disappeared, the
balance of ecosystems will break. For example, Amazon River’s forests are the highest diversity
system on the Earth, it includes at least three million species in the world. Based on a report of
United Nations, from 1991 to 2000, the area of Amazon forests decreased 587.000 square
kilometers. Then at least 30% of species in this area has lost by the impact of deforestation and
Amazon’s ecosystem is on the verge of danger. Hence, saving forests is an effective way to
control the balance of ecosystems in the Earth.

The above-discussed reasons lend me strong ground to claim that forests should be saved by
human because it plays critical roles in many problems in the world. This notion is particularly
relevant to our daily lives today for the world is undergoing change at an alarming rate.