Prompt: Many parts of the world are losing important natural resources, such as forests, animals or clean water. Choose one resource that is disappearing and explain why it needs to be saved. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. (250 words)

There is a considerable decrease in natural resources such as animals, forests, and clean water nowadays. This essay elaborates on the importance of forests which need urgent protection from people around the world. Ċ First, we consider forests as air filters which function like the Earth' lungs. Leaves of the trees take carbon dioxide in the air, sunlight and water to produce nutrition during the process of photosynthesis in which oxygen, a necessary chemical element for all living things, is released into the air. As the results, the atmosphere becomes cleaner and fresher with more oxygen and less carbon dioxide. Ċ Second, forests play a vital role in reducing floods and landslides. Roots of trees, bushes and grass help to stop or slow water flows. Thanks to forests, fatal floods are in control, so death rate is low. Similarity trees and bushes help stabilize soil layers that helps to eliminate landslides, which are very dangerous for people and animals. Ċ Lastly, forests are the safest habitats for many flora and fauna. If people keep destroying them for any reasons, there would be no home grounds for wild animals and plants. In Vietnam, forests have been being destroyed seriously in mountainous regions. As the results, many rare spices such as Sumatra and one-horn rhinoceros, trunk pigs and koala have come into extinction. Ċ In conclusion, forests bring loads of benefits to living things around the world, especially human beings. Hence, protecting and preserving the forests is necessary to save living things on the planet. (250 words)