I'm thinking that if they are mobile (not like plants) they run or they die but often plants in the Rain forest might only live in one area and might go extinct during a fire. The biodiversity in the Amazon Rainforest is more diverse than anywhere else on earth. So, with each fire we might lose many animal and plant species that haven't even been discovered yet by scientists or documented in any way up until now. Also, some animals might only feed on those plants that go extinct or die in the fires. So, we are losing hundreds of thousands of years of biodiversity by all these 72,000 and more man made fires. Life saving plants that will never be discovered by the world and animal and plant species never properly documented likely will be gone this summer (or next summer) from the fires. People are changing everything in this ecosystem and it likely will never be the same again. This also will reduce the oxygen levels on earth everywhere as well from the plants burning now in the Amazon.
Mostly, it is the birds that can most easily escape the fires. Snakes might not be fast enough to escape but might go underground but most bugs, lizards and other smaller creatures (of all kinds) unless they fly are likely going to burn up and be gone in these fires. So, likely we are witnessing the permanent extinction of thousands of plant and animal species (most likely never documented because of the extreme diversity of the area.) (UP UNTIL NOW).
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It's believed about three million different species of plant and animal - one in 10 of all the species in the world - live in ...
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