Focus on Rainforests

Tropical rainforests are the Earth's oldest living ecoysystems and have existed for more than 708 million years. Although they cover only a small percentage of the Earth's surface, they support over half the 30 million plant and animal species on the planet. Yet rainforests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. At the current rate of loss, all tropical rainforests will be destroyed by the year 2030.

Focus on Rainforests helps children to appreciate the importance of rainforests – for their amazing biodiversity, for climate control, as a source of food and medicines, and as a place where people live and work. Focus on Rainforests provides pupils will the chance to explore:

• How and why rainforests are being lost
• The tensions between conservation and development
• The global and local action that might provide a more sustainable future.

The pack contains:

• 12 colour A4 photocards
• An A2 colour poster
• A teachers' guide, containing activity ideas, photocopiable activity sheets and fact files, key questions, background information and curriculum links.

To order phone 01753 643104 or email rpc@richmond.co.uk