Rainforest Concern

Fones4Schools have joined forces with Rainforest Concern in order to preserve much needed tropical rainforest.

Background information

Tropical rainforests took between 60 and 100 million years to evolve. It is now estimated that 1% of that is being cut down every year, at that rate, it could all be gone in just 100 years. Rainforests contain over 30 million species of plants and animals, that's half the Earth's wildlife and at least two-thirds of its plant species! The plants in the rainforest provide food and shelter for many rare animals that depend on the rainforest for their survival. There are many thousands of rainforest plant and animal species still waiting to be discovered.

Further information

For further information about rainforests and the work that is done by Rainforest Concern, please follow this link: www.rainforestconcern.org

Rainforest Facts

One and a half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.

Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and micro organisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.

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