INTERESTING FACTS

* Most of the oxygen supply we breathe in comes from tropical rainforets even though they are far away from us.

* Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day.

* 80% of the flowers in Australian rainforests cannot be found in any other rainforests.

* Roughly about 2,000 trees are cut down every minute.

* Did you know that one football field of rainforest land is being demolished every second.

* Trees of a tropical rainforest are so opaque that rain falling on the canopy can take up to ten minutes to reach the ground.

* The rainforests of Central Africa are home to more than 8,000 different species of butterflies.

* 1 out of 4 ingredients from our medicine come from rainforest plants.

* Half of the world's flora and fauna population is home to rainforests all over the world.

* Rainforests are found on every continent in the world, except Antarctica.

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