Environmental Problem - Writing Piece - Wildfires 🔥

 WALT: Write an explanation 

In Room 2 these past 2 weeks we have been focusing on environmental problems and how the world is reacting to it. One of our task was to write and explanation about an environmental problem, and I chose Wildfires, since it is 2 problems in 1 because it also harms the problem: Deforestation. Wildfires burn down our forests and animals homes, so its a big threat to our Earth! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Here is the writing piece:

Did you know that if we don't try to help the effect of Wildfires on our Earth, 8,000 Wildfires could happen in the next year? Wildfires are a much bigger threat to the earth than you think, because at the end of this year, there will have been around 4,000 - 5,000 Wildfires. That's crazy! How big is this issue? How can we fix it?

If you are in a country where it’s very sunny, like Australia, there is a much higher chance of a Wildfire happening. Australia is also known for their Wildfires, and the amount of fires that are occurring is just going to get larger if we don’t try and find solutions.

The Wildfires are the sun. The second they touch something, there is no escape for it. Wildfires are just like a house fire. Wildfires travel fast and aren't a help for the Earth, because all the smoke rises to the air, and pollutes it. Wildfires are also another reason why birds are going extinct. The air makes it hard to breathe and their homes are all burned to ashes. 

The main reason why these wild raging Wildfires are appearing are because of cigarette butts. People who smoke carelessly throw them into a bush, or in a forest. The cigarette butt could still be on fire, or very hot and that starts a fire. Lots of people, and animals, especially Koalas. Now all of you are probably not aware of how many Koalas are actually damaged. Around 60,000 are hurt or pass away from Wildfires. Koalas live in the forest and when a Wildfire occurs, it ruins their homes and damages them. Lots of Koalas get terribly affected, and it's so unfair. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

So, How can we try to stop this madness? Some solutions we could use to narrow down the amount of fires are: Keep your vehicles off dry grass, and make sure your campfire is ice cold before leaving, or going to sleep or when you wake up, there might be a huge Wildfire! Usually fires happen in unpopulated areas, or they can happen naturally by the heat of sunlight, or a lighting strike, because all a Wildfire needs to occur is just fuel, oxygen and heat. Some days in certain countries the chance of a Wildfire could go straight up from 40% to 70%!! 

A huge reason why we need to stop Wildfires is because lots of people and species are affected by it. Wildfires are linked with deforestation, so a Wildfire is basically 2 problems in 1, since they destroy forest’s and lots of animals' homes, including birds and other animals who use forest’s as a place they can use to live, get teared down to ruins. Stopping Wildfires is a must. If we do somehow make a huge effect on Wildfires. That number of 5,000 could go down to around 500 - 1,000!

In conclusion, the faster we try to stop these the better the Earth would be much healthier because there isn’t so much pollution going around. Australia is suffering a huge drought with all their fires. If we help we will help the firefighters from doing so much work and it will help all the people who suffer from these terrible fires. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥