Tropical rainforests grow in the hot, wet, humid places in the Equator. The forest can be divided into four layers the forest floor, the understorey, the canopy and the emergent (layer of larger trees which stick out above all the rest). South American rainforests are the home of the wild Cocoa plant, from which chocolate is made. Some other important products that come from rainforest plants are mahogany wood, rattan, bananas, paprika, pepper and coffee. People are destroying the rainforests at a rate of 115 square milesa day. The trees are cut down and used as building material or The land on which these forests grow is being used for homes and factonies and roads. Join an organization which tries to save the rainforests, like Greenpeace.
