A rainforest is a hot forest where it

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What is a rainforest?

• A rainforest is a hot forest where it
• rains a lot of the time. Because it is so hot,
  trees grow really big.

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In the rainforest the size of a football pitch is
being destroyed every second.
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Over 50 of the earths species
live in the worlds tropical rainforests.
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Oils

• We get Oils from trees in the rainforest. There
  are 3 sorts of Oils witch are for perfume, fuel,
  and flavouring. Lime oil from the trees as well
  as Patchouli and Rosewood.

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. Building homes

• In a rainforest trees are being destroyed and
  animals are dying because of climate change.
  People are chopping down the rainforest trees for
  timber to build houses so that animals are dying
  because they are loosing their habitat.

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90 of all primates are found in tropical
rainforests.
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capybara

• A capybara is a furry rodent as big as a pig. it
  lives in groups of 10-40 by the river bank or
  near to water in south America. It is the fastest
  swimming rodent. It can only have 4 babies a year.

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Costa Rica
was the first
Central American nation
to cultivate bananas for export!
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Rainforest fact

• About 50 of all mammals and 25 of all bird
  species in Malaysia will become extinct by the
  year 2020 due to rainforest destruction.

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The Tukano tribe

• The Tukano tribe lives in Brazil. The tribe build
  their houses from palm leaves, small trees and
  bark. The men are named after birds and the woman
  are named after plants.

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In the tropics

• Wood is the main source of energy for cooking for
  millions of poor people

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Rainforests are the richest places on Earth but
every day they are being destroyed.
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Plants in the Rainforest

• The condition in the rainforest makes all the
  species of plants, like trees and shrubs, larger
  than our kind of plants. Most leaves are large to
  absorb enough sunlight. If the leaves didnt have
  enough sunlight they would die really quickly.
  The forest trees struggle to reach the sunlight,
  thats why there trunks are tall and straight .

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Foods

• In the rainforest it is very hot so trees grow
  really well. Here are some of the things that
  grow there

Fruits Chocolate Bananas Pepper
Vanilla Oranges
Spices Ginger Allspice Cinnamon Turmeric Paprika
Nuts Coconuts
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Cane and fibre

• In the rainforest you can get fibre and cane. You
  can use fibre for doormats, fishing nets,
  packaging, cloves, furniture as a example chairs.
  And you can use bamboo for houses, chopsticks,
  boxes, furniture, as a example a table you can
  use cane for fishing nets, cloves, furniture,
  boxes, packaging.
  
  
  

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An area the size of two and a half football
pitches can contain 600 species of trees.
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In a rainforest it rains two metres every
year.
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TIMBER

• In the rainforest people are chopping trees down
  to make their houses. They are killing animals
  and destroying the animals homes.

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There are 5 layers in the rainforest.
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Layers of Rainforest

• There are lots of different layers of the trees
  in the Rainforest.

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LEOPARD

• A leopard is a member of the cat family. The
  clouded leopard gets its name from its clouded
  fur. It lives in south Africa and Asia. It nearly
  1m long. It is adapted to hunting because it is
  well camouflaged so it can sneak up on its prey.
  It mainly hunts fish, reptiles and birds

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The Heliconid Butterfly

• A Heliconid Butterfly is a very colourful
  butterfly. It eats poisonous passion flower to
  make itself poisonous so no other animals can eat
  it. A Heliconid Butterfly lives in the
  rainforest.

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farming

• People are cutting down trees to plant
  strawberries, peppers, pineapples, sugarcane and
  bananas to sell to rich countries. But the bad
  thing is animals will lose their homes and once
  trees have been cut down it will rot and wont
  grow again and trees give oxygen as well.

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Rainforests are being destroyed . People are
chopping down trees so they can build homes out
of them.
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Plants of the rainforest

• On the forest floor there are tropical plants
  like the Raffelsia flower (it smells bad
  though!)

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There are some animals in the rainforest
40 of the worlds animals
live in the rainforest canopy
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Rainforest medicine

• Some types of medicine comes from rainforests.
  Most of the medicine comes from plants, from the
  leaves and bark. Amazingly, some types of
  medicine is made from bugs blood.

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Rainforest fact

• At least 300 fruits are found in the rainforest,
  of these only 200 are in use in the Western
  world. The Indians of the rainforest use over
  2,000 fruits..

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The red piranah hunts in shoals and can reduce a
large mammal to a skeleton in seconds!
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Southern Cassowary

• A southern cassowary is a very colourful bird
  that looks funny because its face is blue and red
  and it has red eyes. It has really long tail
  feathers like a cockerel. It lives in Australia.

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THE YANOMANI TRIBE

• The Yanomani tribe live in the Amazon rainforest.
  They were discovered in 1950 by people who
  brought diseases which killed many of them.

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Mining and oil

• In the rainforest people are drilling
• holes for oil and mining
• in cliffs and under the ground.
• Oil leaks into rivers and animals
• are getting extinct because the
• water gets brown and poisonous.