Can We Be as Smart as Bats

by Nicholas Kristof
Elyse Bower
May 4,2008
The author first goes about by explaining the title. He goes to say how bats adapt to living in the dark rain forest.The article is about preserving the rain forest by helping the people who live in it. Football size fields of the rain forest are being cut down every second and this is increasing global warming. The author focuses on two men who have started a school for the inhabitants of the rain forest. The school teaches family planning so that overpopulation will reduce deforestation. It also teaches practicle skills for how to earn an income without large clear-cuts.Another way that was suggested to saving the rainforest was to pay the poorer countries to preserve them. The author includes many facts as to how much carbon is being taken away by deforestation. He also includes his own experiences of the rain forest when he visited that shows he knows what he is talking about. In the authors first paragraph as he explained how bats survived in the rain forest I wanted to keep reading because you weren't quite sure about what the article was going to be about. This article is very informative and makes you want to preserve the rain forest for every ones sake.