Rainforest Continents
Feb 18 2016 this pin was discovered by veronicaphillips.
Rainforest continents. Rainforests are found all over the world in west and central africa south and central america indonesia southeast asia and australia on every continent except antarctica. Studies have indicated that several have existed for over 100 million years. Discover and save your own pins on pinterest. Animal agriculture is considered to be the single major cause of this loss of forest in the country.
Instead of sweeping solutions any sustainable economic use will require careful understanding of small scale locality specific ecosystems cultural socio political and governance characteristics. Tropical rainforests are in the continents of north america south america africa and asia. Technically australia could be included for. The wallace line separates this realm from the australian realm.
Sadly the amazon rainforest of brazil is experiencing a period of degradation and loss. There are two types of rainforests. The metaphoric rainforest continent is three times the size of europe eu. The rainforest ontinent is composed of diverse biomes.
Forest cover in north and central america combined is 750 million hectares which is an increase from 705 4 million hectares in 2010. Forests in north. Brazil has the highest forest cover in the continent. Southeast asia s rainforests are some of the oldest in the world.