100 Facts Rainforests – Bitesized Facts & Awesome Images to Support KS2 Learning

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The Tropical Rainforest is a-ma-zing, and if you’re learning about it at school, I’m sure you agree! It’s huge, and sometimes people call it the earth’s lungs, because without it, our planet would struggle to breathe. Fact 5:There are two different types of rainforests, and they include both temperate and tropical. The tropical rainforests are the ones that are most commonly found around the world.

The global distribution of tropical rainforests can be broken up into four biogeographical realms based roughly on four forested continental regions: the Afrotropical, the Australiasian, the Indomalayan/Asian, and the Neotropical. Just over half the world's rainforests lie in the Neotropical realm, roughly a quarter are in Africa, and a fifth in Asia.The rainforests play an important role in our planet’s oxygen cycle. Somewhere around 28% of the planet’s oxygen is turned over by rainforests. This should not be confused with oxygen production, the largest source of oxygen on our planet is the oceans and not the rainforests. The emergent layer contains huge trees that grow above the canopy layer. Trees that grow up to the emergent layer can reach heights between 148 and 262 feet.

One such initiative, Regrow Borneo, is facing the challenge by leveraging the expertise of scientists and local knowledge of community members who have been planting forests along the Kinabatangan for decades.

16. The river even changed direction.

A team of researchers has put forth a method that they say makes it possible to compare credits for carbon from forests projects against more permanent storage solutions. Orchids, a type of epiphyte plant grows on the surface of other plants in the tropical rainforest. Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day. Are a source for medicines and foods and support forest-dependent people: People have long used forests as a source of food, wood, medicine, and recreation. When forests are lost, they can no longer provide these resources. Instead people must find other places to get these goods and services. They also must find ways to pay for the things they once got for free from the forest. The second largest rainforest is found in Central Africa's Congo Basin. Next is the rainforest of New Guinea.