No more Rainforest
Rainforest, also spelled rain forest, luxuriant forest
No more Rainforest
Rainforest, also spelled rain forest, luxuriant forest, generally composed of tall,
broad-leaved trees and usually found in wet tropical uplands and lowlands around the Equator.
A brief treatment of rainforests follows.
For full treatment, see tropical forest.
Rainforests usually occur in regions where there is a high annual rainfall of generally more than 1,800 mm (70 inches) and a hot and steamy climate.
The trees found in these regions are evergreen.
Rainforests may also be found in areas of the tropics in which a dry season occurs, such as the “dry rainforests” of northeastern Australia.
In these regions annual rainfall is between 800 and 1,800 mm and as many as 75 percent of the trees are deciduous.
Tropical rainforests are found primarily in South and Central America, West and Central Africa, Indonesia, parts of Southeast Asia, and tropical Australia.
The climate in these regions is one of relatively high humidity with no marked seasonal variation.
Temperatures remain high, usually about 30 °C (86 °F) during the day and 20 °C (68 °F) at night.
Where altitude increases along the borders of equatorial rainforests, the vegetation is replaced by montane forests,
as in the highlands of New Guinea, the Gotel Mountains of Cameroon, and in the Ruwenzori mass of Central Africa.
Tropical deciduous forests are located mainly in eastern Brazil, southeastern Africa, northern Australia, and parts of Southeast Asia.
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica
The mightiest rainforest in the world
No more Rainforest
The mightiest rainforest in the world is shrinking at an alarming rate.
If it disappears altogether, the effects on our planet will be devastating.
The Amazon, a vast swath of tropical rainforest that straddles parts of Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana,
Peru, Surinam, Venezuela—but most of all, at 60 percent, Brazil—has been losing the battle against deforestation for decades.
Source: Readers Digest
