We should save the Amazon because it's crucial for global climate regulation, holds immense biodiversity (10% of Earth's species), provides vast freshwater, stores massive amounts of carbon, supports millions of people including Indigenous communities, and offers potential medicines, with its destruction accelerating climate change and threatening food security worldwide. Its "flying rivers" influence rainfall for South American agriculture, while its trees act as a vital carbon sink, and deforestation risks turning it into a carbon source.
The Amazon forest provides us with numerous benefits that we cannot ignore.
Named one the largest ecosystems carbon pools on Earth, the Amazon stores around 200 metric gigatons of carbon in its biomass and soils. Moreover, its plant communities help balance the global water cycle, stabilizing rainfall and climate.
Not only is the Amazon a biodiversity hotspot, it is also home to a wide range of indigenous groups. Over 400 tribes, each with a distinct culture, language, and territory, continue to live in a largely traditional manner, relying on these forests for their survival.
Rainforests are natural air filters. They store and filter excess carbon and other pollutants from the atmosphere and release oxygen through photosynthesis. Without rainforests, our planet is unable to mitigate excess greenhouse gas emissions, which destabilizes the Earth's climate.
Protecting these areas keeps forests healthy and connected, rivers flowing, and food webs alive. These priority areas represent 17% of the Amazon river basin. Preserving habitats and connectivity protects biodiversity, economic opportunity, and the Amazon's global climate-regulating role.
The rainforest is also critical to the water supply in Brazilian cities and neighboring countries. One study found that deforestation accounted for 74 percent of the decline in rainfall and 16.5 percent of the temperature increase in the Brazilian Amazon over a 35-year period.
About 33 million people call the Amazon Rainforest home. Many rely on small amounts of the rainforest's resources for food, shelter and income. Destroying the Amazon would displace or impoverish millions of individuals — many families would likely migrate to cities for work and a place to live.
There are many reasons why rainforests are important, which can be put under the following headings:
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The Amazon rainforest releases 20 billion tonnes of moisture into the atmosphere every day.
A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation. The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon. The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were connected by an astounding network of roads and canals.
80% of the Amazon forest is still unexplored. Scientists believe that there are still thousands of animals and plants there, about which the world has no information.
The Amazon rainforest is often referred to as “the lungs of the earth.” This nickname reflects its vital role in combating climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The rainforest stores an astonishing 150 to 200 billion tons of CO2, serving as a vital carbon sink.
While fires have temporarily declined in 2025, deforestation is soaring. Trees are being cleared for agriculture, mining, and roads, causing forest cover to shrink even in areas spared from fire.
And there are other very serious long-term consequences to destroying Earth's most biodiverse region. Burning away the Amazon would condemn millions of living species to extinction and destroy their habitats. Many of these plants, animals, and other forms of life haven't even been identified by science yet.
The collapse of part or all of the Amazon rainforest would release the equivalent of several years' worth of global emissions, possibly as much as 20 years' worth, into the atmosphere as its trees, which store vast amounts of carbon, are replaced by degraded ecosystems.
The new study, published in Nature, finds that by 2050, between 10 and 47% of the Amazon forest will be exposed to “compounding disturbances” that “may trigger unexpected ecosystem transitions”. This could result in large swathes of lush rainforest shifting to dry savannah.