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The Rainforest Project
At Ashlawn school we are creating our own rainforest project in the quad at school.
Our aim is to create an environment similar to that of a tropical rainforest.
We have begun in the quad at school to plant in the late summer of 2010.
The aim is to educate students how amazing the diversity the rainforest can be and how significant it is to our lives.
It will be the first outdoor rainforest classroom in the UK.
We will have different sections of the garden to explain the diversity of habitats for wildlife in the rainforest.
The Main rainforests of the World.
The Amazon
The Rainforest in Australia
The Indonesian Rainforest
In 2012 we aim to launch the Rainforest project and encourage primary students to think about the rainforest and how we can help. We thought if there was a physical place to bring students to look at plants and experience planting a plant they would be inspired they would be motivated to care for the environment.
Why should we care about the Rainforests?
CLIMATE CHANGE
Did you know that Deforestation creates around 15% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions - that’s as much as all the world’s cars, planes, trains and ships put together.
In Acre alone, deforestation between 1996 and 2005 generated around 22 million tonnes of CO2 emissions each year. That is a serious problem.
CLIMATE REGULATION
Rainforests help to regulate the climate by pumping large amounts of water vapour into the atmosphere, driving the regional water cycle. This acts like a global thermostat by cooling the air and generating rainfall. To maintain this function, rainforests need to keep as much of their lush tree cover as possible.
Rainforest Websites
Save the Rainforest
A book about Rainforests for young people
The Amazon Charitable Trust
The Rainforest Alliance
Sounds of the Rainforest
THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
As the largest tropical rainforest in the world, the Amazon rainforest is hugely important for regulating climate and rainfall patterns in Latin America and far beyond.
The rainforest provides food, shelter and livelihoods for almost all of the 30 million people living in the Amazon. Its destruction threatens traditional ways of life and access to important resources.
The Amazon rainforest also provides a source of products that we value here in the UK, like cocoa, nuts, fruit and timber - not to mention the hundreds of plants used to treat illnesses, including cancer and heart problems.
The Amazon rainforest fosters an incredible diversity of wildlife, and many species have yet to be discovered by science.
As many as 10% of all species on Earth live in the Amazon, including many threatened animals like jaguars, pink river dolphins and hyacinth macaws. These species depend on the preservation of their Amazon habitat.
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