Rescue In The Rainforest By Mackenzie Carro: Article Analysis

After reading the nonfiction article, “Rescue in the Rainforest” by Mackenzie Carro and after reading the nonfiction article, “Are Sloths Endangered? Current status of 6 Sloth Species” by Amy Y. Conry Davis. It is clear that sloths are endangered and they need our help bringing their population back up. The reasons why it’s important to protect the sloths because, they serve as prey to their predators, to provide a place for organisms to live on their body, and one the rainforests are home to over half of the animals on Earth and two how rainforests give humans water, food, medicines, and help fight climate change.

The first reason why sloths and their homes should be protected is because they serve as prey to their predators. Mackenzie

In the article, “Rescue in the Rainforest” Mackenzie Carro states, “As a result, all sorts of organisms make their homes on sloths' bodies. One type of algae lives nowhere on the planet except on sloth fur. A kind of moth also makes its home on the sloth. When the moths die, their bodies decompose in the sloth’s fur, providing a meal for the algae.” This text is explaining how the sloths are home to many creatures, and how they can easily die if the sloth population drops down to zero. In all, the text is trying to emphasize that sloths need to be protected at all costs if you don’t want to rattle up the food

Amy Y. Conry Davis states, “Deforestation and human population growth is responsible for sloth habitat loss.” Plus, in the exact same article it declares, “They depend on trees as the main staples of their diet as well as shelter.” The first cite evidence is saying how deforestation and human overpopulation growth is using up a bunch of resources that sloths need to survive off of, and if there is too many people it leads to more wood that needs to be used, and using to much wood will desamate the trees and the organisms inside them. The second cited evidence is giving the same explanation as the first cited evidence states, but is mostly lenient on deforestation, sloths, and how they need trees in their daily life for basic necessities. All of that combined together explains how deforestation and humans overpopulating puts a grave threat to sloths and their