A rainforest habitat can receive between 2,000 to 10,000 millimetres of rain per year. We have lost up to 17% of the world's rainforests due to deforestation. Back to top.

Snakes (Serpentes) live almost everywhere on Earth, except the polar regions, which are too cold for these cold-blooded ...

In 1960, Hanbury-Tenison purchased a fragment of this rainforest habitat on the edge of Bodmin Moor, where he has raised his family to care deeply about the natural world and reflect on the habitat ...

A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...

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Modern humans evolved around 300,000 years ago, but only began inhabiting rainforests much later. In fact, the earliest archaeological evidence of humans living in rainforest habitats is only ...

Read on to learn 15 Amazon rainforest facts that will give you a taste of what can be found in the rainforest. Get Reader’s Digest ’s Read Up newsletter for more travel trivia, tech, shopping ...

The Amazon might be the world's best-known rainforest, but most people don't know how incredible it really is. Get informed with these 10 Amazon facts. The Amazon is probably ‘the rainforest’ that ...

A study conducted by scientists from Swansea University in the UK, working with international collaborators, has explored the gut microbiomes of rodent species living in both urban and rainforest ...

Explore Brookfield Zoo’s new Tropical Forests habitat with chimps, gorillas and kid-friendly rainforest adventures.

Scotland’s remaining rainforests are being included in UK-wide action plan to expand the rare habitat across Britain’s coast.