1. Rainforests are the home to 50% of the world's animal and plant life.
2. One and a half acres of rainforest is lost every second with tragic consequences for the envorement. 
3. Rainforests can be described as a tall dense jungle.
4. The reason it is called a "rain" forest is because of the high amount of rainfall it gets each year.

   

5. In Australia's Daintree Rainforest you can find the rare Bennets Tree-Kangaroo; the endangered Cassowary; the White-Lipped tree frog and the Ulysses butterfly.
6. The endangered Southern Cassowary is affectionately known as 'big chooks', Southern Cassowaries are greatly loved and iconic species of the wet tropics.
7. The cassowary is the largest animal that lives in our Australian rainforests.
8. Rainforests cover only 6% of the world's surface, but they support half of the species of plant and animal life on Earth and absorb vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
9. Tropical deforestation is the second largest cause of climate change. The loss of natural forests contributes more to global carbon emissions each year than the transport sector.
10. It's estimated that 42 million acres (160, 000 square kilometres) of tropical rainforest is destroyed every year - an area equivalent to the size of England and Wales.
11. It's important to protect the Daintree Rainforest because of the medicinal plants, those plants that have not yet been explored for their healing abilities.
12. Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived only for the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners.
13. Experts agree that by leaving the rainforests intact and harvesting it's many nuts, fruits, oil-producing plants, and medicinal plants, the rainforest has more economic value than if they were cut down to make grazing land for cattle or for timber.

	A cassowary in the daintree rainforest What an animal   The cassowary are not going to be around much longer because of the human impact that we have had. I might describe the Cassowary as the 'big chooks' , there the most beutiful birds you might see!!