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All About Rainforest

If you are ready to learn more about rainforest, the first thing that you need to know is usually that rainforest covers only 6% of the surface on this planet. Still, it houses over half of the world’s animal and plant species when compared with other biological communities on the planet. Hence, a rainforest is nothing but a tall and highly dense jungle that receives high amount of rainfall every year. This is the way rainforest has been named.

About rainforest, an extra important point that you must know is they have four layers to them. The Emergent Layer includes the tallest trees that are 200 feet above the floor from the forest. Next is the Canopy Layer which is the principal layer of the forest and it is often considered to be the roof for the two layers- Understory Layer as well as the Forest Floor. The Understory Layer includes plants which don't grow over 12 feet and houses animals and insects. However, the Forest Floor is quite dark due to the absence of sun light that hardly reaches the layer.

Generally, the climate of the rainforest is humid and hot. It is considered that there are some 3000 plants housed within the rainforest with anti-cancer chemical compounds. A good amount of other pharmaceutical drugs are also developed through the plants of rainforest. Moreover, it is the recycling center on earth for oxygen production as well and it is transforming the co2 produced on the planet into oxygen continuously. In the midst, among the extremely saddening facts about rainforest is that it is now being destroyed, at an escalating rate of greater than 108,000 acres being lost almost regularly.

One of many highly popular rainforest on the planet is the Amazon rainforest that covers the basin of the world’s second longest river, Amazon. The Amazon rainforest is the home to numerous types of animals and plants of the planet. It's estimated that 1/10th of mammal species and 1/5th of birds and plant species are housed in this rainforest. Most importantly, the Amazon rainforest is known as the Earth’s lungs for it produces a lot more than 20%of Earth’s oxygen that is a lot more than any single source, hence, the important origin of air which we breathe.