- Around 80% of the food we eat originally came from rainforests. Examples include coffee, chocolate, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, black pepper, pineapples and corn.
- At over five million square kilometers, the Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world.
- An estimated fifty tribes native to the Amazon rainforest have never had any contact with the rest of the world.
- An estimated number of 2,700 million acres of the rainforest are burned each year.
- The forest floor is almost completely dark – with less that 1% of the available sunlight making it through the tree canopy above.
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Amazon Rain Forest
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