Fact 10: Within four square miles of tropical rainforest, you will find 1500 flowering plant species, 750 types of trees, and many of these plants can help combat cancer. If you've seen images or footage of the area, it's easy to be captivated by the breathtaking landscape. Lots of smaller animals live in rainforests too, including dragonflies, tree frogs, and at least hundreds of species of ants. For specific information about some of the amazing animals who inhabit these regions, including how they have adapted for survival, read the pages within this section of Interesting Animal Facts.

And many commercially available anesthetics, enzymes, hormones, laxatives, cough mixtures, antibiotics, and antiseptics are also derived from rainforest plants and herbs. Fact 31: A slice of the rainforest, approximately equivalent to the size of rainforest destroyed each second, which is equivalent to 86,400 football fields of rainforest each day, which is equal to 31 million football fields of rainforest each year.

The oldest living ecosystems on Earth, rainforests have been on this planet for at least 70 million years.

From the beginning, our approach has been to work with farmers and indigenous and forest communities to cultivate sustainable rural livelihoods that incentivize conservation.There are so many different animal species living in the rainforests, that many scientists believe there are many more that haven't even been discovered yet! According to Global Forest Watch, our planet loses tropical forestland equivalent to the size of Bangladesh every year. However, it is believed that only 1 per cent of all rainforest plants have been tested to see what their components can be used for. The rainforests are all located near the equator in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Central and South America. According to rainforest facts, these ecosystems are not only found in areas with high levels of annual rainfall.