Interesting 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.
80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.
We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a minimum of 7% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.
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.
80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.
We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a minimum of 7% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.