The rainforests inhabitat Thousands of plants.

The forests are endangered because or the pepole cutting down the trees. That is called deforestation.

Scintists have not dicsoverd all the plants in the rainforests.

The smallest seeds in the world are the orchid seeds ,they are as small as dust.

Rainforests only cover around 2 percent the total surface area of the Earth, but really about 50 percent of the plants and animals on the earth live in the rainforest.

Rainforests are the forests that receive high amount of rainfall

Rainforests help to maintain our supply of drinking water and fresh water, so they are critical in the sustainability of the earth.

Over 2000 types of plants that you find in the rainforest can be used to help aide in cancer treatment because they have anti cancer properties.

70% or more of the plants that are used to treat cancer are found only in the tropical rainforests on the planet.

Timber, coffee, cocoa and many medicinal products are few of the products produced by rainforests, including those used in the treatment of cancer.

80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.

1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.

About 2,000 trees per minute are cut down in the rainforests.

By Alexis Fox