RAINFORESTS PROVIDE A HOME FOR PLANTS AND WILDLIFE

Rainforests are home to a large number of the world’s plant and animals species, including many endangered species. As forests are cut down, many species are doomed to extinction.

Most rainforest species can survive only in their natural habitat. As their habitat is destroyed, many well-known rainforest species are threatened with extinction, including orangutans, rhinos, tigers, gorillas, elephants, as well as many birds, monkeys, reptiles, and amphibians.

Zoos cannot save all animals.

RAINFOREST PHOTOS

Borneo rainforest -- sabah_aerial_1612

Masoala rainforest [madagascar_masoala_0199]

Borneo rainforest -- sabah_aerial_1226

Rainforest and turquoise ocean

Rainforest at Tampolo on the Masoala Peninsula [madagascar_masoala_0749]

Lowland rain forest in Java

Turquoise ocean and rainforest of Isla Gorgona

Peat forest in Borneo [kalteng_0689]

River near Penalosa

Rainforest tree near Jantho

Siquirres rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0670]

Buttress roots of a rainforest tree on Peucang Island

Borneo rainforest -- sabah_aerial_1802

River in Borneo -- sabah_aerial_1595

Osa rainforest tree

Rainforest canopy tree

River valley on the Amazon side of the lower Andes

Waterfall in Imbak Canyon -- sabah_aerial_1925

Lower Kinabatangan River

Rainforest tree leaf

Looking up the trunk of a rainforest tree

Jungle in Malaysian Borneo

Rainforest of the Darien

Rainbow over the Borneo rainforest

Aerial photo of an Amazon rainforest tributary

Mexican rainforest vegetation

Waterfall in Bwindi

Red cup mushrooms (Cookeina speciosa)

Rainforest in Peru

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