Alex’s Amazon Adventure
By Alexander Ward
In the year of 2026 a boy called Alex was having
a daydream about monsters invading the planet but just when he was getting to
the good part his mum disturbed him and reminded him to do the homework Mr
Charlie had set him for the weekend. So, he got up reluctantly and went to sit
at his desk. Alex looked out his bedroom window at what used to be the
beautiful world around him which was now wrecked because of deforestation. Alex
started the science Mr Charlie had given him, Alex was a bit of a clever clogs
when it came to science, but it took him all day to finish it, and his hand was
throbbing.
Alex was eight years old when he moved to Brazil,
after his dad got a new job away from the city. Life in New York was crazy
busy, polluted and not a very nice place to live. Alex remembers when he saw a
man chopping down a tree in Central Park, it made him feel angry and
frustrated. As a boy with a love for
nature and animals Alex knew the same would be happening in Brazil because
that’s where a part of the Amazon rainforest is and Alex had learned in school
that if it carries on at its current rate soon there will be no place for the
animals to call home, so he was determined to save them.
In Brazil he lived with his mum, dad and sister
called Anna. He LOVED football!! (he was the Pele of the streets). Alex was
funny, smart, hardworking, resilient, brilliant minded and was dead set on
saving the world of deforestation forever.
So, one day, on his fifteenth birthday, Alex and
his family took a visit to the Amazon rainforest. They took a walk through the
forest, with its big, tall trees and leafy green plants, Alex could not believe
his eyes, he had never seen anything so magical in all his life. After walking
for about an hour in total amazement, the family were hot and sweaty, and they
took a break to get some water and sat down and ate their picnic. When they
stood up and set off again through the rainforest they passed part of the
magnificent Amazon River. Alex was gobsmacked by all the birds and insects of
which he had never seen before but he was also aware of deadly animals like
snakes and jaguars. Alex and his family spent the day wandering the forest in
awe, looking to see if they could spot a poison dart frog, Alex had seen these
in lots of books.
Along his path, Alex came across a sad looking
sloth. It looked lost and hungry. Alex was furious; these poor animals are
losing their home, he thought. With some help from his sister Anna, Alex
managed to coax the sloth over towards him with a banana that he had left over
from lunch. How could people do this to these wonderful creatures he thought.
The sloth had such a cute little face and was really quite friendly. The sloth
munched on the banana whilst Alex thought about what to do next. Eventually
Alex carried on walking with the sloth in his backpack to the next village
which was a few hours away.
A few hundred bananas later they arrived at the
village and gave the sloth to an old man who had promised to keep it safe. Alex
decided to name the sloth Hope for his hope to save the sloth and the other
animals that lost their homes.
Alex said, “bye…see you later,” and set off again
through the Amazon rainforest to find the group of men that were chopping down
the trees. Deforestation is destroying our planet and Alex was determined to
stop it.
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