100 Facts Rainforests – Bitesized Facts & Awesome Images to Support KS2 Learning

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The report also records reductions of glaciers and land-cover changes triggered by expanding human activities such as agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and mining that have affected the country from the coast to the Andes.

This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. Rainforests also absorb solar radiation and reduce the effect of greenhouse gas emissions, thus regulating the temperature and weather cycles of the planet, the rainforest facts show. Compounds in rainforest plants are already used to treat malaria, heart disease, arthritis, bronchitis, diabetes, dysentery, glaucoma, hypertension, muscle tension, rheumatism, and tuberculosis, among other health problems. Tropical rainforest facts reveal that high temperatures lead to higher humidity levels (ranging from 77–88%). A: Scientists believe that there is a great diversity of animals because rainforests are the oldest ecosystems on earth.Scientists have discovered that more than half of them play a vital role in sustaining the local water cycle. Fact 11: 70% or more of the plants that are used to treat cancer are found only in the tropical rainforests on the planet. The rainforest section of Mongabay is divided into ten "chapters" (the original text for the site was a book, but has since been adapted for the web), with add-on content in the form of special focal sections (e. Government documents, first published by Mongabay last year, showed that hundreds of thousands of hectares of Suriname’s primary forest might be under consideration for agriculture development.

Other species such as the golden toad, whose entire population lives on one mountain in Costa Rica, could become extinct within seconds from a bulldozer’s crush. It is made up of leaves and branches from the canopy trees, which all crowd together blocking out 98 per cent of the sunlight to the layers below it. Lots of smaller animals live in rainforests too, including dragonflies, tree frogs, and at least hundreds of species of ants.They are fed the coffee beans and they are collected from the dung later after passing through the elephants digestive system. Thus in recent years, it has become easier—and more ethical—for green groups to go after corporations than after poor farmers. Even though most of them are located on the American continent, they help stabilize the entire planet’s climate.

Unless you strongly believe in Elon Musk‘s idea of making Mars as another habitable planet, do remember that there really is no 'Planet B' in this whole universe. The dense canopy of the rainforest provides a home for a wide range of species, including trees, vines, and epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants). Buttress roots are when the roots grow out of the base of the trunk, sometimes up to 5 metres above ground level.The idiot fruit tree is known by its scientific name Idiospermum australiense or the Green Dinosaur due to its lineage. If you don’t know too much about tropical rainforests, then you will probably be surprised to find that there are a few little known facts out there about them.