The African Rainforest By: Maddie Foley

What’s Happening in the Rainforest??  What’s causing the Rainforest to disappear is deforestation, road construction and slash-and-burn farming. 90% of the Rainforest is already gone in West Africa.

Tribe in The Rainforest  The name of the tribe is the Bantu. They’re Hunters and gatherers.

What Animals do they get their meat from?  African Forest Elephants  Gorillas  Black Colobus Monkey  Pygymy Hippos  Rats  Forest Buffalo  Rainforest Fish

What’s The Climate and Temperature like?  The climate is humid and the average Rainforest is 63 to 79 inches. The average temperature is 80 degrees with a low 73.

What’s the countries that have rainforests in them?  Burundi  Cameroon  Central African Republic  Cote D’Ivoire  Congo Brazzaville  Equatorial Guinea  Gabon  Guinea  Liberia  Nigeria  Congo Kinshasha  Rwanda  Sierra Leone

What’s the main reason for the Rainforest disappearing  The main reason is for money, jobs, roads and jobs the foreign logging companies people bring in.

Vegetation  Oil Palm:  Native of West and Central Africa, the oil palm accounts for roughly 14 percent of all the world's plant oils. In the last century, oil palm plantations devoured huge tracts of rainforest. The palm is used for making goods ranging from iron plates and lubricating grease to chocolate, candles and soap. The first oil palm plantations were developed in Ghana in  Mahogany:  Mahogany is one of the most commercially popular woods from the African rainforest. Its texture is not as refined as American mahogany, but it is a highly valued wood for furniture, staircases, boat building and house paneling and flooring. Its coarser grain makes it resistant to termites. Rainforest tribes use mahogany bark to treat colds; oil from its seed can also be used to kill insects.  OKOUMÈ:  Found only in Central Africa, okoumÈ accounts for 90 percent of the trees logged in Gabon's rainforests, primarily for markets in Italy, France, Japan and Israel. It produces a high-grade, lightweight wood that is used for veneer, plywood and sawn timber.

African Rainforest Basin  The 2,900 mile river basin runs through the Congo River Basin.