I think the main idea from my prospective of view is that the article talks about protecting rainforests and what the dangerous effects of deforestation could be. Some of the effects that is listed and said were that there was a possible risk of extinction between 20: 30 percent of animals from the prediction of the primatologist, Jane Goodall.
At first, I only thought that 20: 30 species of animals would be under extinction, and then I thought that 20: 30 is a lot of species and animals but then I read further on and it said 20: 30 percent of all the species of animals. After reading, I thought that if 20: 30 species of animals is a lot I could not imagine how many animals 20: 30 percent of all the animals are.
It seems to me that maybe this article is informative and it has an other side to it. I believe that the other side may be that this article is trying to persuade to be on their side and in this case, their side would probably be saving rainforests or help prevent climate change.
I think the author wants to convince you that how bad deforestation is and is somewhat blaming the governments of some or most of the developed countries.
A strong statement that proves the main idea is “Providing assistance to farmers and economic investments in ecotourism can make rural communities the custodians of the forests, not their destroyers.” says Jane Goodall. She explains that even a bit of action towards climate change can make a difference in the world and possibly a big difference in the future.
“As a Primatologist , I am particularly concerned by the prediction that 20 to 30 percent of species will face an increased risk of extinction.”
I: “I” is the pronoun because pronouns substitute for nouns of noun phrases and in this case “I” was substituting for Jane Goodall and that is a noun.
Primatologist: “Primatologist” is a noun because a noun is a person, place or thing and a primatologist is a person.
20: “20” is an adjective because an adjective describes a noun and in this case, it is describing how much percent of species and also in this case percent is a noun.
Concerned: “Concerned” is a verb because a verb is an action and when are concerned about something or someone that is an action.
Particularly: “Particularly” is an adverb because it is describing a verb. It is describing how she was concerned and concerned is a verb.
Q5. Tell how two of the characters felt in the article and back up your answers with examples from the story.
The first character is Jane Goodall. I recognized that she felt very insecure and uncertain through the article because since the beginning she has bringing up the fact about possible extinction of animals. She even said, “As a primatologist, I am particularly concerned by the prediction that 20 to 30 percent of species will face increased risk of extinction”
In the statement above she expresses how much she is concerned and why. Later on she talks about how concerned, she is about deforestation because it harms animals and other reasons also.
The second character or characters are the people that live around or these forest preserves. I believe that some or even most of the people around the forest reserves feel much mistreated because they are poor and especially farmers because their land is being lost so they have to dig in and cut the forest to get more and better agricultural land. By this, many farmers are taking life away from plants and it has caused deforestation on a big scale.
Another reason is the villagers that live around the forest reserves especially in Africa are moving into the forest to gain land and build more homes etc. They are destroying not only the forest but also the habitats of many different species of animals and are endangering many animals. This is unfair to both the sides and they probably feel invaded would not like it.
I learned many things from this article including the consequences of deforestation etc. The first thing that caught my mind that was new to me and that was an opportunity to learn was that how nasty deforestation could be.
Even though knew deforestation is not the best thing you would hope for but I still did not know that there was a prediction that 20: 30 of all animal species could be endangered due to deforestation. Although a prediction could be off by maybe about 5 : 10 species still those are many animals.
Another thing that I caught when I was reading the article was that the impact of deforestation is completely devastating on the environment. I was astonished and I never would have believed it if I had not read it.
The fact in the article stated, “Tropical deforestation contributes 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere annually, compared to 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.”
In my opinion, the introduction of this article kept my interest at the begging in a good manner. However, it was not that powerful to surge me into reading this article. At the introduction, they presented it in such a way that I thought the article was completely focused on climate change and in detail global warming.
The main sentence that got me to believe such a thing is “The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently issued a report predicting an alarming array of impacts of climate change around the globe, including drought, floods, lower crop yields, threatened food security, wildfire and ocean acidification.
When the article moved to the topic of animals and the consequences, they could face due to deforestation I got really in to and interested in the article because I personally like animals and hate to see them destroyed. I easily get sympathetic toward animals, some domestic, and some wild I find.
