African Rainforest
By : Kelly
Some interesting things I learned
- Rood construction and slash-and-burn farming have already wiped out roughly 90 percent of west Africa's rainforests.
- The rainforest of central Africa's Congo Basin, have come under the axe.
- Native hunter live in rainforest .
- Now, the government of rainforest contries are now torn between the need to protect their endangered rainforest and the need for money.
People in rainforest--- Baka
- Native hunter- gatherers have inhabited Africa's rainforests.
- 200,000-250,000 native rainforest inhabited spread across Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- In the rainforest, for children, boys will learn to hunt, girls will learn how to fish and gather food.
- Population is growing really fast , really large.
- Many ethnic group of the African rainforest were lumped together under the name Pygmies.
Animals in rainforest
- Blue monkey
- Vine snake
- Rainbow Lizard
- Milk snake
- Fruit bats
- crocodile
- Gorilla
- Hummingbirds