Rainforests are tropical forests with tall trees growing closely together.0:01
They have a lot of rain and high temperatures.0:06
These places are very old.0:10
Rainforests may be about a hundred million years old.0:12
There are different kinds of rainforests too.0:16
When people speak about rainforests, they usually think about the rainforest in South America, because it is the largest.0:21
The greatest part is situated in Brazil and Peru.0:30
But there are also rainforests in Central America, Africa, in the south and southeast of Asia, in Australia and some islands.0:35
People usually say that rainforests have high rainfall, which means that it can rain on these territories for more than 200 days a year.0:49
It rains there for more than half a year and the rain is heavy.0:59
It is always hot in these territories.1:04
The Temperature is about 23 to 32 degrees above zero.1:06
All the year round, rainforests are getting smaller.1:10
People are destroying them every year.1:17
They are cutting down trees to plant coffee and sugar.1:19
In Brazil, in 1988, people found gold there and went to the forest to get it.1:22
They began to make roads and build airports.1:29
They have already destroyed a lot of the rainforest.1:32
We need rainforests very much and mustn't destroy them.1:38
The leaves of rainforest trees make one third of the Earth's oxygen which people breathe and without which we can't live.1:42
For more than 50 million people of different tribes, the rainforest is their home.1:52
Many species of plants and animals live only in the rainforest.1:57
Probably one day you will travel to a rainforest country.2:03
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