Speech Outline Template

Title : Save the Forest, Save the World

Name : Mohamad Izzallee bin Roslee
Purpose : To inform and persuade
Specific Purpose : To inform about deforestation and why we should save the forest in this
world, and persuade audience to raise awareness of the forest.

Time : 10-15 minutes

I. Introduction

A. Do you know that the Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world? Amazon
rainforest or also known as Amazonia is located at Brazil.
B. This forest covers about 2.2 million square miles, which approximately over 5.5 million
square kilometers. This particular size of Amazonia is 17 times as big as Malaysia. This
is truly wonderful!
C. However, the downside begins from 23rd of August this year, where this wonderful
Amazonia had been burnt out at the highest rate which is about 85 percent since 2013.
D. I probably think that in the future, we would not be able to breathe normally as before as
the rate of deforestation increases.

[Transition***Now before I talk about this topic, let me introduce about deforestation.]

II. Body

Topic Sentence 1: What is deforestation and what will happen to the world?

A. Deforestation is the action or process of clearing of forests.

1. Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land
available for the other uses. (Bradford, 2018)
a. It can be understandable that we live in the new era of science and technology.
However, it does not mean that the workers should destroy the nature for the sake
of development.
b. Deforestation can be done by two common methods, clear cutting and burning
trees.
c. Can you imagine what will the future world look like without these beautiful
forests? Well, I can say that this will be a horrible nightmare for us.
2. If the deforestation rate will be rise in the next few years, this will cause so much
impact to the world, like climate change and habitat loss.
a. Do you know that deforestation is one of the contributing factor of the global
climate change? (Bradford, 2018)
i. Forests play its role of storing carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere and
supplying oxygen for us to breathe.
 ii. When deforestation occurs, it will disrupt the global carbon cycle. Not only
these forests reduce the amount of carbon dioxide stored, they will release them
in the air.
iii. It is known fact that Amazon forests are also a key but poorly understand
component of the global carbon cycle. (Phillips, et al., 2009)

b. We also have seen it clearly that deforestation will affect habitat loss which are
mostly flora and fauna species.
i. In Malaysia, the Malayan tiger is one of the endangered species that can be
threatened with extinction under the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010. The
decline in tiger population is because of the habitat loss due to deforestation.
(Perera, 2019)
ii. These animals that survived might not able to relocate their new home.
iii. I believe those future generations will not be able to see those species again
like elephants, rhinoceros and others.

[Transition*** I believe you all have understand the concept of deforestation. Now let me get
into the topic. ]

Topic Sentence 2: Why we as humans should save the forest in this lovely world?

B. Forests give a lot of benefits. Aside from storing carbon dioxide and providing oxygen to
us, it can be useful for other living things and environment as well.

1. Forests provide us with shelter, livelihoods, water, food dan fuel security. (World
Wide Fund for Nature - WWF, 2019)
a. Over 2 billion people nowadays rely on forests to get the source.
b. Some of these activities can involve the forests directly, which are easy to know
like fruits, paper and wood from any specific tree.
c. While some are indirectly or less obvious, such as by-products that go into
everyday items like medicines, detergents and others.

2. Forests can support ecosystems, biodiversity and habitats. (Madaan, n.d.)

a. There are sorts of animals like lions, leopards, crocodiles and others live in the
forest. Animals form their food chain in the forest by interacting each other to
form a balanced ecosystem.
b. Forests also support some of the world’s endangered species to ensure their life
better.

3. Forests can regulates the global water cycle and stabilize climate for the environment.
(Madaan, n.d.)
a. Forests can balance the natural cycle of water evaporation and subsequent
condensation and precipitation as rain.
b. It is truly interesting that those trees and plants also can control the atmospheric
temperatures so we do not need to depend on air conditioners.
 c. Forests can reduce the impacts of floods as it provide the stability of the soil,
makes it more difficult to erode away.

[Transition*** Now, we must ask ourselves, how we can help to save the forest to raise the
awareness.]

Topic sentence 3: How can we help to save the forest to raise the awareness?

C. There are ways and means to save the forest for the sake of the Earth’s future.

1. The obvious way to counter deforestation is by reverse, which is reforestation.

(Bradford, 2018)
a. Reforestation can be usually referred by planting more trees to restore the
ecosystem services and rebuild wildlife habitats.
b. However, this action would not fix the damage completely as it would help other
aspect like extinction and the burning of fossil fuel.
c. Well, this idea can be useful for children, so we must educate them to create their
awareness to the beauty of nature including the forest.

2. We should also educate ourselves to become an ecofriendly person. How about we

recycle our papers we print, write and draw every day?
a. The trees from the forests are used to create not just one, but an abundance of
paper.
b. When we recycle, for instance, 1 ton of uncoated virgin, which are non-recycled
printing and office paper uses 24 trees. (E4 Environment, n.d.)
c. Imagine if we consumed all of those papers every year, we would probably save a
lot of trees. Therefore, by reducing the amount of extra paper that created, lots of
energy costs and waste products can be saved.

3. We should preserve the forest by stop eating meat. (Scutti, 2019)

a. Do you know the burning of Amazon rainforest is because of the world eats so
much meat?
b. Even though meat gives protein, but the cow produce a greenhouse gas known as
methane, which is 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
c. For the meat lovers, you should try another variety type of food. I’m not forcing
to stop you, but you must think about the Earth’s future.
[Transition*** Now that we know what we must do to save the forest for the Earth.]

III. Conclusion

A. It is clear that we cannot consider just one factor that cause the destruction of forest like
deforestation. Like I have said it before cow releases methane, definitely more powerful
than carbon dioxide and affect the climate change as well.

B. Therefore, we must realize ourselves that the forests need us to be saved. Reforestation is
not the only solution to this matter, hence we should take other actions as well.
 C. After listening to my speech, I hope everyone can think again why we live in this
beautiful Earth. Finally, let me just say, if you want to save it, focus on the forest rather
than the trees. (Rudzinska-Wojciechowska, 2017)

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