Ecuatorial Rainforest

EcuatorialRainforestBY MANU LOPEZ 1ºc

The African rainforests are home to an abundance of animal and plant life.African rainforest are home to an extraordinary number of animals. Even just a few square miles of rainforest can be home to dozens of different animal species.

Life in rainforest

For thousands of years Pygmies have lived in harmony with equatorial Africa's magnificent jungles. They inhabit a narrow band of tropical rain forest.

More than two thirds of the world´s plants species are found in the troprical rainforest. This plants live in a warm humid enviroment that allows an enormous variation rare in more temperate climates

Plants

Silver back gorilla and okapi

One out of four ingredients in medicines are from rainforest plants.

Animals

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Elephants from rainforest

Location

An area of rainforest is the size of a football field is being destroyed each second. Almost 90%of west Africa´s rainforest has been destroyed