Life in the Rainforests
There are many different places in the world where people inhabit from countryside farms in India to Rocky Mountains in the U.S.A. but rainforests are different. Life there is diverse in almost every part of living. There are two types of rainforests; Tropical rainforests such as the Amazon and Temperate rainforests such as the Quinalt rainforest, Olympia National forest. Both the rainforests are similar in that the trees flare at the base and the vegetation is mainly dense, tall and very green. They are both rich in plant and animal species, although tropical rainforest usually have a greater diversity. The rainfall at a tropical rainforest is about 4 times greater than the temperate rainforest.
The Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest, across more than half of Brazil. Within the 2.5 million square miles of the Amazon Basin live a wealth of life richer than on any place else on earth, including 500 mammals, 175 different lizards, 300 other reptile species, tree climbers of every kind, and a third of the world's bird population. Yet this very phenomenon on Earth is being attacked, not by the snakes, nor the tigers, nor any other animal living there. It’s being attacked by the humans, by us the inhabitants of the more economically developed, the richer, the more sophisticated, and so-called more civilized countries. Rainforests are being destroyed worldwide for the profits they give in - mostly harvesting unsustainable resources like timber, for cattle and agriculture, and for subsistence cropping by rainforest inhabitants.
