Rainforest Facts

[natalie]

Rainforests, characterized as forests with high rainfall are also the oldest living ecosystem’s on earth. Rainforests are known to have a hot & humid type of climate. Some interesting facts about rainforests:
[LIST][*]1 ½ acres of rainforests are lost each second.[*]The Amazon Basin is known to hold 1/5th of the world’s fresh water.[*]The Amazon forest is known as “Lungs of our planet” for continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen.[*]Rainforest deforestation will lead to nearly half of world’s species of animals, plants & microorganisms to be destroyed within next quarter century.[*]Most medicos & shamans continuing to live in the rainforests are of about 70 years or more.[*]1 hectare of rainforest may contain 750 types of trees & about 1500 species of plants. [*]The rainforests contain nearly 3000 types of fruits.[/LIST]

[kymsolaris]

A third grader's drawing of a rainforest won the Doodle 4 Google competition. Maybe this will help raise awareness. Here is an article:

Third-Grader’s Doodle Wins Google Contest

Notice something different about the Google logo Friday?

The drawing, showing a rainforest in which the Google letters are turned into plants and animals, beat out more than 33,000 submissions to win this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition and was designed by a Missouri third-grader. The winner, Makenzie Melton, will get a $15,000 scholarship and a computer, and her school will get a $25,000 grant, Google announced.

In her submission, Makenzie wrote that she drew her doodle because “the rainforest is in danger and it is not fair to the plants and animals.” “I love everything except spiders and snakes, but I would still save them,” she wrote.

[someguy]

omgggggg wow... honestly that little deserved to win and that caption shouldve been right under it.. that is a movement all on its own.

[jonyboyy]

Originally Posted by someguy

omgggggg wow... honestly that little deserved to win and that caption shouldve been right under it.. that is a movement all on its own.

Im guessing you meant little girl but i totally agree. That caption is really incredible. At least we are getting to the younger generations