Rainforests

Rainforests are perhaps the most important places on earth. And yet we destroy thousands square kilometers of rainforest every year. In 1950, rainforests covered 15 per cent of the earth's land, Fifty years later we have destroyed more than half of these rainforests. Will there still be any rainforests in the year 2050? No one knows the answer to that question. We must learn about the rainforests and try to protect them. We can use rainforest and save them, too.

Raiforest are home to about fifty million people and millions of species of animals, plants, and insects, In one square kilometers of rainforest there can be more than 75,0000 different species of trees. In all of Britian there are only 1,443 different species plants and animals disappear, and forest people lost their homes.

The leave of rainforest tress make about 40 per cent of the earth oxygen. Can the earth live without the oxygen of the rianforests? What will happen to us when there are no rainforest? We do no know - and let's hope that we never find out the answer!

The weather in a rainforest is hot all the year around - usually between 20 degree and 28 28 degree every day. The weather is always wet, too: rain forest have more than 200 millimetres of rain forest in a month. In Belem, in Brazil, it rain on about 243 day each year. And the rain is heavy! On rain day in a rainforests 20 millimeters of rain call fall.