Amazon Rainforest Facts – 100 Facts About the Amazon Rainforest

Fun Facts About the Rainforest

Amazon rainforest has the largest diversity of plant species on Earth.

Amazon rainforest comprises of 215 ethnic groups.

Rainforests are found in all the continents in the world except for Antarctica, as the environment is not conducive for it to grow.

Rainforest get their name from the fact that they get lot of rain each and every year

There are four layers in rainforest, emergent layer where trees are the tallest, then just below it is canopy where branches and leaves of trees join to form a kind of umbrella, then below it is understory, then comes shrub, and finally the ground.

The canopy of the rainforest is over 40 feet thick.

More than 1.6 billion people depend on rainforest for their livelihoods.

The Amazon rainforest releases about 20 million tones of moisture into the atmosphere each day; it is approximately equal to the water of 8,000,000 swimming pools.

324 liters of water is produced by a rainforest tree per year.

Ecuador oil pipeline in South America has spilled more oil into the Amazon river than the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska.