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The age of rainforests

Rainforests are in danger

Rainforests are very important

The weather in rainforests

The places where we can find rainforests

People usually say that rainforests have a high rainfall which means that it can rain on these territories during more than two hundred days a year. Just think of it, it rains there more than half a year and the rain is heavy. It is always hot on these territories. The temperature is about 23—32 degrees above zero all the year round.

When people speak about rainforests, they usually think about the rainforest in South America because it is the largest. The great part of it is situated in Brazil and Peru. But there are rainforests in Central America, Africa, in the south and southeast of Asia, in Australia and some islands.

We need rainforests very much and mustn’t destroy them. The leaves of the trees that grow there make one third of the Earth’s oxygen which people breathe in and without which we can’t live. For more than 50 million people the rainforest is their home. Many species of plants and animals live only in the rainforest.

Rainforests are getting smaller. People destroy them every year. They cut down trees to plant coffee and sugar in Brazil. In 1988 people found gold there and came to the forest to get it. They began to make roads and build airports. They have already destroyed a lot of the rainforest.

Rainforests are tropical forests with tall trees growing thickly together. These places are very old. Rainforests may be about a hundred million years old. There are different kinds of rainforests.