1By Niamh Doverman

The Rainforest

Contents

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Facts – Slide 3-6

Animals- Slide 7-11

Plants- Slide 12-16

Native tribes- Slide 17-19

Conclusion- Slide 20

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facts

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The worlds largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest.

Rainforests only take up 2-3% of the earths land .

50% of the planets wildlife and plants grow and live in the rainforest.

Only 2% of the sunlight actually hits the forest floor.

The air is hot and humid in most rainforests but is always very damp and the soil is poor.

Rainforests are so important in the world because there are so many trees and plants that absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen .

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Tropical rainforests are located near the equator. There is very little sunlight and a-lot of rainfall in tropical rainforests.

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There are four layers in the rainforest.Monkeys, butterflies, bats and eagles mostly live in the emergent layer .

A-lot of animals live in the canopy layer like birds, tree frogs and snakes because there is large amount of food there.

Not a-lot of sunshine gets down to the understory layer so plants have to grow larger to reach sunlight. The animals that live here are jaguars, most frogs and leopards. There is a large amount of insects there.

It is very dark down on the forest floor and almost no plants grow down there. Fungi grows on the forest floor and ant eaters live there.

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Animals from the Rainforest

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Tree kangaroo

The Tree kangaroo is in danger of being extinct because its home and habitat is being destroyed. Tree kangaroos eat leaves, insects and occasionally small birds. They grow to up to 4 feet tall. Tree kangaroos mostly live in the trees.They can jump up to 60 meters from tree to tree without getting hurt.

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Golden Lion Tamarin

The golden lion Tamarin is one of the most striking animals of the rainforest. It has glossy orange gold fur and is quite friendly . They eat mainly fruit and small birds. The golden lion Tamarin spends most of its time in the trees and rarely come down.

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Quetzal

There are six different types of Quetzal and they are all endangered. Quetzals eat fruit, insects and small frogs. They are very hard to find because they live up very high in trees almost 3,600 feet above the ground. A-lot of the time Quetzals are trapped or killed because they are such beautiful birds.10

Strawberry poison dart

frogThe poison dart frog mostly feeds on spiders and other small insects. Their life span is 10 years if in captivity. They got their name because some tribes use their poison to poison their arrows.

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Plants from the rainforest

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BromeliadThere are over 2,000 different types of Bromeliad in the rainforest. The most common type of Bromeliad is the fruit, pineapple. They are most found on rocks and tree trunks. Bromeliad plants don’t use their leaves for water, they use them more for sunlight.

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Epiphytes

Epiphytes are plants that live on the surface of other plants, especially the trunk and branches of trees. They grow on trees to get up to the sunlight in the canopy layer. Some Epiphytes have berries which contain more than 7,000 seeds.

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Parrot plant

The Parrot plant is a very rare plant in the rainforest. The plant is usually a red yellow colour but can sometimes be purple and blue so it looks a bit like a parrot. Many people said the Parrot plant wasn’t real until a man called Ray Morgan wrote an article about it in 2007.

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Curare

The Curare is a vine with big heart shape leaves . They grow in South America. The word Curare come from and Indian word meaning poison. Native tribes use the poison on their arrows to kill animals. The poison is harmless unless it enters the blood stream. In America they use it in surgery to temporarily paralyze the patient.

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Native Tribes

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Kayapo Tribe

The Kayapo tribe mostly live on leaves, fish and monkey. They live in thatched-roof huts. The roof is made of palm leaves. Their huts are large and they sleep on hammocks. There are no major celebrations in the Kayapo tribe only when a boy becomes a man or when a baby boy gets his name. 18

Yanomami tribeThe Yanomami tribe are a very popular tribe in the Amazon rainforest. They raise monkeys , parrots, cats and dogs as pets. If a person dies they believe that they go to an ancestral village which is free from disease, hunger and is free from early morning attacks. Unfortunately 1,000 gold miners are coming to where the Yanomami tribal areas and are bringing disease and they are polluting the rivers with mercury.

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I really enjoyed doing my rainforest project and finding out about all the

different plants and wildlife. I found the tropical rainforests very interesting.

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Thanks for listening by Niamh Doverman

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