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

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Rainforests are home to an incredible variety of plants and animals, including many species that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This allows them to absorb heat, cool the planet, and create more air humidity, generating more rainfall. There are so many animals living in tropical rainforest that scientist believe there are many that have not been discovered yet. Home to over 40,000 plant species, 3,000 fish species, 1,300 bird species, 430 mammals and an amazing 2.Rainforests can be found in over 50 countries around the world, including Brazil, Congo, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Whenever the ants feel something moving at the foot of the tree, they rush to fiercely fight the intruder. Conservation efforts are essential to combat these threats and protect the future of the rainforest. Killeen is an academic and expert who, since the 1980s, has studied the rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia, where he lived for more than 35 years. Fact 15: Rainforests are threatened each and every day, especially by practices such as agriculture, ranching, logging and mining.

Because there is so much rain in the rainforest, many plants have adapted to have big curved leaves so that the water can run off easily. In Central American rainforests, rival strawberry poison dart frogs might wrestle for up to 20 minutes!It is believed that an area of rainforest the size of a football pitch is lost to deforestation every single second.