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

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Although large tropical rivers are fairly uniform in appearance and water composition, their tributaries vary greatly. These forest types form a mosaic of vegetation types which contribute to the incredible diversity of the tropics. Rainforests are under threat from activities such as logging, farming, and mining, which can destroy the habitat of the plants and animals that live there.

Tropical rainforests have long been home to tribal peoples who rely on their surroundings for food, shelter, and medicines.Insects make up 90% of all living things on the planet, and a quarter of them are found in rainforests. Less than 1% of the plants in the rainforests have actually been examined to see if they have any uses in medicine. Armed with dangerous poisons used in life-threatening situations,their bright colors warn predators to stay away. billion people—more than 25% of the world’s population—rely on forest resources for their livelihoods, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and most of them (1.

Its skin produces some of the strongest natural poison in the world, which Indigenous people often use for hunting purposes. Rainforests are characterized by a unique vegetative structure consisting of several vertical layers including the overstory, canopy, understory, shrub layer, and ground level. was the worst fire season since 2019, when that year’s El Niño brought a prolonged dry season and fires so severe, they sent billowing smoke across Malaysia and Singapore. Being one of the rarest rainforest plants, facts reveal that the 2018 discovery of the Thismia neptunis , or Fairy Lantern, is the species’ first-ever recorded finding. The canopy, which may be over 100 feet (30 m) above the ground, is made up of the overlapping branches and leaves of rainforest trees.Many indigenous communities around the world depend on the rainforest for their livelihoods, food, and medicine.

Fact 31: A slice of the rainforest, approximately equivalent to the size of rainforest destroyed each second, which is equivalent to 86,400 football fields of rainforest each day, which is equal to 31 million football fields of rainforest each year.Our team works with award-winning authors and illustrators to create books that spark the imagination and curiosity of preschoolers and primary-school-aged children around the world. In the absence of local jobs, some people burn abandoned farmlands and turn them into new plantations as a way to make a living and survive. Lots of materials and food that we use and eat every day come from the rainforest, such as coffee, chocolate, rubber, oil and colour dyes.

According to Global Forest Watch, our planet loses tropical forestland equivalent to the size of Bangladesh every year.There is little sunlight on the forest floor so many rainforest plants have to adapt to the low light. Fact 34: Most of the tropical rainforests, approximately 57 percent, are located in developing countries.