Lemurs like Lisa are in danger because the forests are being cut down.

Do you know about any other animals which are losing their environment?

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INTERNATIONAL RAINFOREST DAY

JUNE 22nd

National Geographic Rainforest

There are rainforests in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Central and South America.

The biggest rainforest is the Amazon rainforest. It’s about the size of the United States, without Alaska or Hawaii. More than half of it is in Brazil, but parts are in several other South American countries, including Ecuador and Bolivia.

The next biggest rainforest is the Congo in Africa. Parts of the Congo can be found in several other countries too, including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon.

Most rainforests are found along or near the Equator, where it tends to be hot.

But some rainforests grow in temperate regions where it’s cooler.  Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park on the Pacific northwest coast of North America is an example of a temperate rainforest. Like tropical rainforests, temperate rainforests get lots of, well, rain.