Where in the World are the Rainforests?

When you have a look at a map, you’ll come to realize that all the worlds rainforests lie halfway above and half below the equator. Although they only cover a small part of the surface on earth, it covers about 6% of the earth and even more so, serve as the habitat for more than half the species of both animals and plants in the world.

Central American Rainforest

Once mostly covered with rainforests and now used for cattle ranching, as well as sugar cane plantations, these rainforests in central America mainly consists out of jungles and swamps of which contains many plants and animals. It is also known for its large number of tropical which includes many kinds of parrots.

The Amazon

As the most popular rainforest in the world, the Amazon is considered the worlds biggest jungle and tropical rainforest. It also covers the basin of the Amazon which is considered the world’s second-biggest river. With an amazingly large variety of species, all of which include 1/5 of the worlds bird life and plants, as well as 1/10 of mammals, it is most definitely considered to be one of the world’s gems.

African Rainforest

Next, to the Amazon, central Africa has the world’s second largest rainforest. Unfortunately, the South East part of the forest, which included Madagascar, is now gone. Africa still, however, have some of the highest cloud forest areas in the world. The island of Madagascar still, to this day, have some of the most unique plants and animals in the world, which cannot be found anywhere else.

Southern Asian Rainforests

The Asian rainforests stretch from India and Burma, all the way to the western part of Malaysia, as well as the islands of Java and Borneo. Bangladesh is known for having some of the biggest mangrove forests in the world.

Australasia Rainforests

Millions of years back, Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand were considered a forest of its own and because of it, these countries contain animal species that can’t be found anywhere else in the world.

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