The Rain Forest Quizbo. AFRICA - Explore the Regions - Rainforest. Home to half of the continent's animal species, Africa's vast rainforests are falling silent.
Deforestation, road construction and slash-and-burn farming have already wiped out roughly 90 percent of the West Africa's rainforests. Now, the rainforests of Central Africa's Congo Basin, the second largest in the world after the Amazon, have come under the axe, too. For centuries, only scattered groups of native hunter-gatherers and Bantu-speaking subsistence farmers disturbed the forest realm.
Then, in the 19th century, European loggers and plantation owners moved in. One of the worst cases of rainforest exploitation took place in the Belgian colony of Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) where thousands of forced laborers died in the scramble to harvest wild rubber. Today, the governments of rainforest countries are now torn between the need to protect their endangered rainforests and the need for the money, roads and jobs that foreign logging companies bring in.
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EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages.Click here to learn more. (Already a member? Click here.) What is a Rainforest? Rainforests are very dense, warm, wet forests. Rainforests are extremely important in the ecology of the Earth.
Strata of the Rainforest Different animals and plants live in different parts of the rainforest. EMERGENTS: Giant trees that are much higher than the average canopy height. An incredible number of animals live in rainforests. In temperate rainforests, most of the animals are ground dwellers and there are fewer animals living in the forest canopy. Where are Rainforests? Tropical rainforests are found in a belt around the equator of the Earth. Temperate rainforests are found along the Pacific coast of the USA and Canada (from northern California to Alaska), in New Zealand, Tasmania, Chile, Ireland, Scotland and Norway. Rainfall Temperature. A World Inside Our World. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued.
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