About animals in the Rainforest

Orangutans:
The Orangutans in Indonesia and Malaysia on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. There are two kinds of Orangutans the Sumatran orangutan and the Bornean Orangutans. In the wild the Orangutans live up to 45 years or more. Orangutan means people of the Rainforest. Orang means people and hutan meaning forest. Orangutans eat, fruits, nectar, honey, bark, leaves, insects and fungi. New born Orangutans stay with their mother until their 7 or 8. In 1900 there were about 315,oo0 wild orangutans. Now there are only about 50,000 orangutans. The Orangutans are getting endangered because the tropical Rainforests, their homes are cut down. Orangutans have lost about 80% of their habitat in the last 20 years.

Jaguars:
The Jaguars adapt in the Rainforest by camouflaging in the Rainforest.

Picture of Rainforests being destroyed.......

A Rainforest being destroyed......







SAVE THE RAIN FOREST!
DO IT!

Rainforest pictures!

Save the Rainforests or they will be gone in 40 years!

Some rainforest Facts!

One and one-half acres of Rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.


There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.

In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900's. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.

When a medicine man dies without passing his arts on to the next generation, the tribe and the world loses thousands of years of irreplaceable knowledge about medicinal plants.

IF ALL OF YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING THE RAINFORESTS WOULD BE ALL GONE!

Rafflesia

Rafflesia is the BIGGEST flower in the whole world. It was discovered in the Indonesian Rainforest. Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, found the Rafflesia in Indonesia. The Rafflesia has no stems and roots. The Rafflesia can be over 100 centimeters. It can weigh 10 kg. The Rafflesia is in danger. So save it!