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by Cameron
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Rainforests are special forests where the branches touch to form a canopy that closes off about 75% of the sunshine to the plants below. Rainfall is very high and trees grow tall searching for sunlight.
The cool, dark forest floor encourages unique plants and animals and moss covered trunks. Only about 1% of our Australian forests are rainforest and they are threatened as the demand for their unique timber increases.
Once disturbed, the whole environment with hundreds of different species of plants and animals is threatened as each depends on the other to live.
Rainforests are the world's oldest forests. Giant trees, magnificent in grandeur and hundreds of years old, survive only in the few remaining rainforests. Most have been destroyed because of greed for land or timber.
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