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A study published in Science found that two-thirds of the populations of all 4,950 tree species that make up the Atlantic Forest are threatened with extinction. We have rainforests to thank for chocolate, bananas, tomatoes, rice, potatoes, coffee, sugar, and spices like cinnamon and vanilla (to name a few). So many species become extinct in such a short period of time, that the impact of the industrial age can be compared to the catastrophe of a comet strike on the diversity of life. Trees in the emergent layer can grow as tall as skyscrapers (between 40 m and 80 m) and have thin trunks. It is believed that an area of rainforest the size of a football pitch is lost to deforestation every single second.

During the Ice Ages, the last of which ended about 10,000 years ago, the frozen areas of the North and South Poles spread over much of the earth, causing a high rate of animal extinction. Its inhabitants include rhinoceroses, elephants, bears, and burrowing animals that live under the soil. of all the orchid species in the world are found in this rainforest, making it the ultimate destination for orchid lovers. Logging is the biggest cause of forest degradation and usually proceeds deforestation for agriculture. Characterized by thick, tangled canopies of plants, vines and small trees, rainforests are often referred to as “jungles”.Today, we work in more than 60 countries to stop deforestation and initiate reforestation, improve livelihoods, and protect biodiversity. The project’s environmental license is not yet approved, and the Manaus smoke crisis should serve as a warning as to how serious those impacts would be. Fact 17: If the rainforests continue to decline in the way that they have been, then about 5-10 percent of their species will go extinct every ten years.

Other countries that have large areas of rainforest include Bolivia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ecuador, Gabon, Guyana, India, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Congo, Suriname, and Venezuela. Less than 1% of the plants in the rainforests have actually been examined to see if they have any uses in medicine.Fact 8: Rainforests play an essential role in maintaining the Earth’s limited supply of drinking water and freshwater, so they are crucial to the sustainability of the earth. Other species such as the golden toad, whose entire population lives on one mountain in Costa Rica, could become extinct within seconds from a bulldozer’s crush. Fact 14: Less than one percent of the species of plants in the tropical rainforests have actually been analyzed to determine their value in the world of medicine. From the beginning, our approach has been to work with farmers and indigenous and forest communities to cultivate sustainable rural livelihoods that incentivize conservation.

Governments and donors must increase their direct, flexible, and less bureaucratic grant-making to those who have the profound knowledge and the means to make a real difference in preserving our planet’s future – Indigenous peoples, a new op-ed by Rainforest Foundation argues. Deforestation and other forms of habitat destruction are major threats to the long-term survival of many rainforest species. It’s also home to chimpanzees, and forest elephants, in addition to 400 other species of mammals, 1,000 species of birds, and 700 species of fish. v=1567591151","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":2192405004399,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0. Many types of insects, arachnids (spiders), reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals live in different parts of the rainforests, depending on what the animal needs to survive.Protecting rainforests helps to preserve the world’s biodiversity and the unique ecosystems that support these species. Experts say that local development models should ideally start from water to land, rather than the other way around, given the importance of water for the rainforest, its biodiversity, and the inhabitants who depend on both. Then there is the canopy layer, which includes most of the other trees, and if you look at the rainforest from above, it looks like a single unbroken sea of trees. The canopy layer of the rainforest is so dense that it can take up to ten minutes for raindrops to reach the forest floor.

There they can find all of their necessities and rarely have to come down to the floor of the forest.You would probably only need a few hours of poking around in a rainforest to find an insect unknown to science. Each layer experiences different levels of light, water and air, and plants and animals have adapted to survive in each specific layer.