Have you ever thought of an ecosystem, or even what it really is? An ecosystem is where living and nonliving things in an area interact together. The things they depend on is mostly each other, for instance in a food chain, a lamb will eat the grass, the fox will eat the cow, and the bear eats the fox and so on and so on. Even the plants may rely on animals, and animals may rely on plants! There are different ecosystems like forests, wetlands, oceans, deserts, and the arctic tundra and that means different disasters, sometimes man made, can happen there. Even if ecosystems may seem perfect, things may damage or even completely destroy the habitats of animals. Things like forest fires, and other disasters, may even harm the animals. This is why we need to protect them, and protect their homes.