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Rainforests provide habitat for many species of plants and animals, regulate the climate, prevent soil erosion, and are home to indigenous people. They store large amounts of water and carbon while their soils have few nutrients. Deforestation damages the land and threatens over half of the world's plant and animal species. Rainforests are an important source of medicines, foods, and industrial products.

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• Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land.
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• Rainforests are found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Central and South America. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest in South America.
THE IMPORNTANT OF RAINFOOREST. • THEY PROVIDE A HABITAT FOR PLANTS AND ANIMALS • THEY REGULATE OUR CLIMATE • THEY HELP TO PREVENT SOIL EROSION • THEY PROVIDE A HOME FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE • RAINFOREST PHARMACY • OTHER IMPORTANT FOREST PRODUCTS
• Tropical rainforests took between 60 and 100 million years to evolve and are believed to be the oldest and most complex land-based ecosystem on earth, containing over 30 million species of plants and animals. That's half of the Earth's wildlife and at least two- thirds of its plant species!
• Rainforests store water like a huge sponge. In fact, it is believed that the Amazonian forests alone store over half of the Earth's rainwater! Rainforest trees draw water from the forest floor and release it back in to the atmosphere in the form of swirling mists and clouds.
• Surprisingly, soil in the rainforest is very poor in nutrients. This is because the nutrients are stored in the vast numbers of trees and plants rather than in the soil. Tree roots bind the soil together, while the canopy protects the soil from heavy rains. When a tree dies and its trunk falls to the forest floor, it decays and the nutrients it contains are recycled.
• Many indigenous people have been living in harmony with the rainforest for thousands of years, depending on it for their food, shelter and medicines. When oil and logging companies come to remove vast areas of forest, they bring diseases which the indigenous people have no resistance to, threatening their survival.
• It may surprise you to know that more than 25% of our modern medicines originate from tropical forest plants. Even so, we have only learned how to use 1% of these amazing plants, so imagine the possibilities if we could experiment with the other 99%!
• Many foods we consume today such as nuts, bananas, coffee and spices, and industrial products such as rubber, resins and fibres, were originally found in tropical rainforests.
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  • 4. • Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land.
  • 6. • Rainforests are found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Central and South America. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest in South America.
  • 7. THE IMPORNTANT OF RAINFOOREST. • THEY PROVIDE A HABITAT FOR PLANTS AND ANIMALS • THEY REGULATE OUR CLIMATE • THEY HELP TO PREVENT SOIL EROSION • THEY PROVIDE A HOME FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE • RAINFOREST PHARMACY • OTHER IMPORTANT FOREST PRODUCTS
  • 8. • Tropical rainforests took between 60 and 100 million years to evolve and are believed to be the oldest and most complex land-based ecosystem on earth, containing over 30 million species of plants and animals. That's half of the Earth's wildlife and at least two- thirds of its plant species!
  • 9. • Rainforests store water like a huge sponge. In fact, it is believed that the Amazonian forests alone store over half of the Earth's rainwater! Rainforest trees draw water from the forest floor and release it back in to the atmosphere in the form of swirling mists and clouds.
  • 10. • Surprisingly, soil in the rainforest is very poor in nutrients. This is because the nutrients are stored in the vast numbers of trees and plants rather than in the soil. Tree roots bind the soil together, while the canopy protects the soil from heavy rains. When a tree dies and its trunk falls to the forest floor, it decays and the nutrients it contains are recycled.
  • 11. • Many indigenous people have been living in harmony with the rainforest for thousands of years, depending on it for their food, shelter and medicines. When oil and logging companies come to remove vast areas of forest, they bring diseases which the indigenous people have no resistance to, threatening their survival.
  • 12. • It may surprise you to know that more than 25% of our modern medicines originate from tropical forest plants. Even so, we have only learned how to use 1% of these amazing plants, so imagine the possibilities if we could experiment with the other 99%!
  • 13. • Many foods we consume today such as nuts, bananas, coffee and spices, and industrial products such as rubber, resins and fibres, were originally found in tropical rainforests.