Interesting Fact
Did you know?
- Every fifteen minutes one animal in the rainforests gets extinct.
- An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed every second.
- Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches tall a day.
- The trees in a tropical rain forest are so packed that when it rains it takes ten minutes for the rain to touch the ground.
- Our medicines include 1 ingredient that comes from rainforest plants.