interesting facts of the rainforest

An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed each second. Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day.

The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground.

Some rainforest monkeys are omnivores, eating both animals and plants. More than 2,000 different species of butterflies are found in the rainforests of South America.

80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world. Bats are essential for the pollination of many tropical foodstuffs such as bananas and mangoes.

1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.