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Welcome to Mrs. Way's Fabulous Website.  You will find all the web-based information that is necessary to craft an amazing Rainforest Multi-Genre Project.  Use the menu bar to your left to be taken to a list of resources that will help you develop your project and learn all about these amazing ecosystems as well as how you can help save them.  Knowledge is power!


 

A Rainforest Overview:
 
Rainforests are teeming with rare species of animals and plants that exist nowhere else on earth. Hundreds of years ago, tropical rainforests encircled the globe, much like long green arms hugging the equator and covering twenty percent of the earth's surface. Reduced to a mere six percent, the diminishing rain forest shelters more than half of all of the plant and animal species living in the world today. Rapid deforestation has endangered the splendor of this tropical paradise.
 
Forest loss does not just affect plants and animals. It also has a direct and immediate impact on the people who live in forests. Many of these cultures have lived in the same regions for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years.
 
You will learn about the interdependence of the plant and animal life that is so unique to this environment. You will also learn about the destruction of these precious natural resources and what we can do to preserve them. Today's changing world has created new challenges for the survival of the rainforests.

Consider these facts:

A single pond in Brazil can sustain a greater variety of fish than is found in all of Europe's rivers.

 


A 25-acre plot of rainforest in Borneo may contain more than 700 species of trees - a number equal to the total tree diversity of North America.

 

A single rainforest reserve in Peru is home to more species of birds than are found in the entire United States.

 

One single tree in Peru was found to harbor forty-three different species of ants - a total that approximates the entire number of ant species in the British Isles.

 

The number of species of fish in the Amazon exceeds the number found in the entire Atlantic Ocean.