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Rainforest Facts

 * Lots of facts about Rainforests:**
 * **Rainforests have been destroyed and damaged.**
 * **One half acres of Rainforests have been lost every second tragic consquences.**
 * **Nearly half of the worlds plants,animals and microorganisms will be destroyed.**
 * **Rainforests mostly once covered 14% of the worlds land surface.**


 * What kind of Rainforests you can find? **


 * ** Central America **
 * The Amazon
 * ** Africa **
 * ** Southern Asia **
 * ** Australasia **
 * What are the plants in some Rainforests? **
 * **Bromelaids**
 * **Butt****ress roods**
 * **Carniverous Plants**
 * **Epiphytes**
 * **Lianas**
 * **Orchids**
 * **Saprophytes**
 * **Stilt/prop Roots**
 * **Stragler Fig**


 * What are the largest collections of plants and animal species?**

The Amazon Basin was formed in the Paleozoic period, somewhere between 500 million and 200 million years ago. The extreme age of the region in geologic terms has much to do with the relative infertility of the rainforest soil and the richness and unique diversity of the plant and animal life. There are more fertile areas in the Amazon River's flood plain, where the river deposits richer soil brought from the Andes, which only formed 20 million years ago.

Once a vast sea of tropical forest, the Amazon rainforest today is scarred by roads, farms, ranches, and dams. Brazil is gifted with a full third of the world's remaining rainforests; unfortunately, it is also one of the world's great rainforest destroyers, burning or felling more than 2.7 million acres each year. More than 20 percent of rainforest in the Amazon has been razed and is gone forever.
 * Scarring and Loss of Diversity?**

Commercial logging is the single largest cause of rainforest destruction, both directly and indirectly. Other activities destroying the rainforest, including clearing land for grazing animals and subsistence farming. The simple fact is that people are destroying the Amazon rainforest and the rest of the rainforests of the world because "they can't see the forest for the trees."
 * THE DRIVING FORCES OF DESTRUCTION?**

In addition to being logged for exportation, rainforest wood stays in developing countries for fuel wood and charcoal. One single steel plant in Brazil making steel for Japanese cars needs millions of tons of wood each year to produce charcoal that can be used in the manufacture of steel.
 * Fuel Wood and the Paper Industry?**

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