Interesting Facts On Rainforests

• 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.

• Some rainforest monkeys are omnivores, eating both animals and plants.

• 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.

• Flying animals of Asian rainforests include frogs, squirrels and snakes.

• 80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.

• Bats are essential for the pollination of many tropical foodstuffs such as bananas and mangoes.

• 1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.

• About 2,000 trees per minute are cut down in the rainforests. Let's do everything we can to save them..
  

Source: srl.caltech.edu