SAVE THE MORIBUND LUNGS OF THE EARTH
Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.
Deforestation dehydrates the caliginous evergreen region,
scorching heat changed the water cycle irreversibly.
Locking in scanty rainfall and a prolonged arid season,
tall towering canopies fell down~ecosystem lost balance entirely.
Greenhouse emissions omitted approx. 288–247 gigatones of carbon absorption,
erosion erased the terrestrial ecosystem's productivity consistently.
Severe drought grips the gasping genome's biodiverse vegetation,
barren scrublands of tropical basins turn deserts gradually.
Sensitive ecozones's carbon emissions blocked,
need urgent restoration.
can't deny climate change ~global warming is a reality, ironically.
Forest fire, sterilized soil, changed the unscathed contour of the fecund Amazon,
felling forests no longer inhaling carbon secretion, sadly.
Barren rainforests become oxygen-less oxymoron,
soil become sand~ overexploitation expunged bioms' 61% biological production virtually.
Endangered species lost natural abodes~ man-animal conflict became more common,
with 85 percent habitat loss~ unprotected biodiversity hotspots at peril considerably.
Sustainable development fails sustenance without substantial preservation.
tropic's photosynthesis jeopardized~gasping oxygen to revive bitterly.
Nothing can replace reforestation for in-situ conservation,
burned fossil fuels turned 5,300 hectares of Amazon rainforest into "wasteland" permanently.
Home to 390 billion trees, the 10 million-year-old river basin witnessed cumulative colonization,
decades of felling brought the jungle near a "tipping point" naturally.
Borneo lowlands' polluted lungs malfunction of natural air filtration,
deforestation indirectly leads to a low ozone layer in the stratosphere, obviously.
Pollutants in tropospheric ozone crushed biota's biosynthesis microbial production,
the resultant chain of diversified congenial relationships are lost irreparably.
Carbon sink basins sank, climate change yields vicious circles of isoprene emissions,
susceptible lungs on the mercy of axes~succeeding generations may not see rainforests certainly.
Rainforests might "once" be past rhetoric;
woefully, we have not learned afforestation,
realization can't restore~ prudent plantation is the optimum solution, evidently.
© Silpika Kalita
21st March is the International Day of Forests.The most important challenging task is at the moment, "Afforestation," the burning need of the hour.
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Silpika Kalita
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