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Tropical rainforests are found in the Amazon basin in Brazil, Central America, central Africa, South East Asia, the western coast of India, and northern Queensland in Australia.
Most of these rainforests have an equatorial climate as they typically run within 10 degrees along the North and South of the equator.
They have no actual seasons; meaning hours of sunlight & darkness and weather patterns are virtually the same every day of the year.

About 18,000mm or 18 metres of rainfall occurs in the rainforest and the daily storms there can last well up to 3 whole hours without stopping!
The amount of rain is due to the moisture evaporated by the heat.
About 60% of all of these rainforests are natural and about 40% are human plantations to make up for the amount chopped down over the years for farming, hunting, natural resources etc.
The rainforests are rapidly disappearing along with the many inhabiting species which once thrived there due to this and desperate conservational projects are being set up to try and conserve and rebuild what we humans have single-handedly destroyed.
The forests are also home to a number of native people, some of whom live in such remote areas that they have had little contact with the rest of the world.
These people were the original inhabitants of the rainforest areas and have some of the greatest knowledge about the resources, dangers and overall conditions of the rainforests, which could be lost if their peaceful and simple ways of life are disrupted by modern development.
The replacement of forest with grassland for farming can also have a major effect on the way of life of the natives.
Without the forest wood, they cannot make the essentials, tools, and buildings that are an important part of their economy.
But once the forest habitats are gone, they cannot continue their traditional lifestyle of gathering fruit and nuts.
The Rainforest area takes up well more than half of the Earth's total forested area and contains more plant and animal species than any other type of habitat in the world, although they cannot be calculated as there are many new species being discovered there every day, which is thought to go on well into the future.
The rainforests are famously known for the variety of plant and animal life and complex ecosystem structure there.
Due to the high levels of solar (sunlight) energy, heat and water available, they are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, which have developed over

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