FUN FACTS ON THE RAINFOREST!!!!!
Facts
- An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed each second.
- Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day.
- The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground.
- In the moist rainforests of South America, sloths move so slowly that algae are able to grow in their fur.
- More than 2,000 different species of butterflies are found in the rainforests of South America.The forests of Central Africa are home to more than 8,000 different species of plants.
- The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres
- There are around 2.5 million different types of insects living in rainforests.
- Scientists believe that there could be thousands of as yet undiscovered species of plants, animals and insects living in rainforests around the world.
- It is believed that the Amazonian rainforest alone holds over half the earth’s rainwater.
- Every second, approximately two acres of rainforest is destroyed around the world.