Pheynia 8

Hi Everyone here is my narrative

Snowy The Croc In The Jungle
22-9-09


One dark steamy night in a greeny water was a really mean croc laid on the sandy bank .it was silent and still and no movement. There where other animals that needed to drink water but snowy wouldn’t let them snowy was looking for food .Snowy won’t let the animals dink at the river first the bats tried to drink snowy growled at them then the parrots went to get a drink but he snapped at them then the monkeys tried to sneak up behind snowy while he was asleep but o eye was half open snowy jumped up suddenly the animals tired again and again to drink some water but he frightens them away. All the animals called a meeting they decided to make a trap with vines, sticks and put his favorite food in inside, a rabbit that an eagle killed. All the animals told him lye that there was a big fish down river they setted up the trap. They catched him he got a nit quite later the parrots told him they won’t let him out unless he changes he promises not to be mean and everyone becomes friend and snowy let’s them drink at the river.


The End

By Pheynia King

Tania 30

Hi All,

How are you all.

Year 6's I hope you injoy your excertion!!

Mr Dredge have fun and injoy yourself!

Here are some pics of the QLD Rainforest.

Cheers Tania

Tania 29

Hi Everyone,
Here is a cool site.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/strings/rainforest/

Cheers
Tania

Bradley 25 Traps Traps And More Traps

Hi Everyone!!
Here is the web site where I got the Rock Fall Trap idea from.
It has got a few simple traps you could make if you had the material and patience.
http://crisistimes.com/survival_traps.htm
Cheers
Bradley

Bradley 24 Komono Dragon

Hi Everyone!!
Did you know that the world largest Lizard in the world lives in the Rainforest!
The Komodo Dragon can grow up to 2.8 meters long and can live up to 20 years!!
To catch its Pray it will run up to 18 kilometers per hour. The Komodo Dragon lives in the Indian Rainforest where it can hunt and sleep where ever it pleases.

Cheers Bradley:-)

Bradley 23 Continued Comic strip

Hi everyone here is my comic Stip Conyinued...
Cheers Bradley

Bradley 22 Comic stip. Page one

Hi Evereone!!
Here is what I have done for my Art. It is a comic book. I am going to bring it to the airport on sunday so everyone can see it much much better.

George29 Art My Last POST

Hi Everyone here is my finished art (it is a diorama) I have finished my assignment and are going to Brunette Campdraft tomorrow. See Bradley, Sam, Josh, Tom and Mr Dredge on Sunday!!!!

Tania 28

Hey Everyone,

Here are some cool pics of sloths.

sam 25

Hi Everyone here is my letter to the editor

Henbury Station
Alice Springs
P.O Box 645
N.T 0871

09/09/09

Editor
Alice Springs
P.O Box 2254
N.T 0871

Dear Editor

RE: Save the Rain Forest animals

I believe that if we do not act soon almost all of the animals that live in rainforests will be extinct. I think we should section off large areas of rainforests to be made in to national parks.

Firstly, I think that the parks should be off limits for logging and destruction. They would be like any other national park – a sanctuary for flora and fauna. Then if a species of animal goes extinct in the Rainforest, the national park will be able to reintroduce some of the that species they have been breeding in the national park.

Secondly, the parks would be open to tourists. These visitors would pay to visit and bring in money to keep the fences in good condition. Eventually the park boundaries could be extended. Some of the money that is made can also be used to donate to animal conservation causes around the country.

The parks would have scientists that could use the flora to make medical supplies. Once a medicine is discovered, the plants could be put in to mass production so the parks would not be depleted of their natural resources. These then could be sold to the government and then be put on the market. This could be a life changing thing. The plants could be made in to medicine for many types of diseases.

Finally, if a part of the rain forest is protected there will always be rain forest for future generations and for fauna to continue to live in peace.

This is why I think that a section of every rain forest should be made into a nation park.

Yours faithfully

Sam Morton

George28 Sustainable community

Hi Everyone here is a great picture of a house in a rainforest tree in Costa Rica.

Found at:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/21/eco-ewok-treehouses-finca-bellavista-sustainable-rainforest-community/

Bradley 21 Letter to the Editor

Hi Everyone
Here is my letter to the editor of the Alice Springs News group.
You may have to double click on the image to bring it up big.
Cheers
Bradley :-)

Bradley 20 Rainforest cover

Hi everyone!!
I have created a graph that clearly shows you the countries and their rainforest cover.
I got the information from: T. Allan "Biomes Rainforests" 2003 Chrysalis Bks
Cheers
Bradley

Tania 26

Hi Everyone,
Here is my letter to the editor:

Mt Skinner Station
PO Box 8548
ALICE SPRINGS NT 0871

10 September 2009

The Editor
Centralian Advocate
PO Box 2254
ALICE SPRINGS NT 0871

Dear Madam/Sir

SAVE THE RAINFORESTS BY STOPPING LOGGING.

Rainforests are disappearing. A major reason for this is that they are being logged for paper, wood chips and timber.

Firstly, the rainforest animals are losing their habitat and becoming extinct. The animals have to move to new areas and these areas become overcrowded and the food supply becomes short so some animals just can’t survive. Over 35 species of animals become extinct each day because the forest is being destroyed and the animals don’t have enough warning to move on.

Secondly, rainforest plants are being damaged and are becoming extinct. The plants are needed to keep the soil together and to keep the nutrients in the ground. Without the plants some of the animals won’t survive.

Another reason is the soil becomes too poor so no plants will grow. The water from the rain runs off the bare ground and within 10 years it becomes a desert.

Lastly, too many trees are being damaged. For every tree that is used 5 are damaged by machinery. These trees are then wasted and are left to rot.

Therefore, I believe rainforests should be saved so that rainforest animals and plants don’t become extinct. If something isn’t done now there will be no rainforests by 2050 and that will be very sad. The rich countries need to help the poor countries with their debt so that they don’t need to sell the rainforest timber to make quick money. If the interest rate that these countries have to pay to the rich countries was lowered, the poor countries could find other ways to make money.


Yours faithfully
Tania Barber
Tania Barber

sam 24

Hi everyone

Its time for a nother fun fact


The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru. If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world.
The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.
More than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests. One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.
One hectare (2.47 acres) may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants.
At least 80% of the developed world's diet originated in the tropical rainforest. Its bountiful gifts to the world include fruits like avocados, coconuts, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, bananas, guavas, pineapples, mangos and tomatoes; vegetables including corn, potatoes, rice, winter squash and yams; spices like black pepper, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, sugar cane, tumeric, coffee and vanilla and nuts including Brazil nuts and cashews.
At least 3000 fruits are found in the rainforests; of these only 200 are now in use in the Western World. The Indians of the rainforest use over 2,000.
Rainforest plants are rich in secondary metabolites, particularly alkaloids. Biochemists believe alkaloids protect plants from disease and insect attacks. Many alkaloids from higher plants have proven to be of medicinal value and benefit.
Currently, 121 prescription drugs currently sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. And while 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less than 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has identified 3000 plants that are active against cancer cells. 70% of these plants are found in the rainforest. Twenty-five percent of the active ingredients in today's cancer-fighting drugs come from organisms found only in the rainforest.

sam 23

Hi everyone its time for another fun fact.

Fact: Rainforests are threatened by unsustainable agricultural, ranching, mining and logging practices.
Fact: Before 1500 A.D., there were approximately 6 million indigenous people living in the Brazilian Amazon. But as the forests disappeared, so too did the people. In the early 1900s, there were less than 250,000 indigenous people living in the Amazon.
Fact: Originally, 6 million square miles of tropical rainforest existed worldwide. But as a result of deforestation, only 2.6 million square miles remain.
Fact: At the current rate of tropical forest loss, 5-10 percent of tropical rainforest species will be lost per decade

From Sam

sam 22

Hi everyone

Here is a nother fun fact

Fact: Nearly 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide depend on forests for their livelihoods.
Fact: Fifty-seven percent of the world?s forests, including most tropical forests, are located in developing countries.
Fact: Every second, a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is mowed down. That's 86,400 football fields of rainforest per day, or over 31 million football fields of rainforest each year.
Fact: More than 56,000 square miles of natural forest are lost each year

from Sam

Bradley 19 Packs of stacks of facts!!

Hi Everyone!!
Did you know that12 percent of the land in the world is covered in rainforest? These forests have between 50 to 90 percent of all animal and plant species!!

The oldest ecosystems on the earth are tropical rainforests.

In SE Asia Fossil records enable scientists to show that the forests have been around for 70 million years in their present form!!

Between 1981 and 1990 rainforest was destroyed at the rate of 70 million hectares a year!!

The most diverse range of rainforest on any continent exists on the continent of Australia.

I got this information from G, Pyers "Australia's Rainforests" Binara Pub 2004

Cheers
Bradley :-)

George27 Great Picture

Hi Everyone here is a great picture of things that are in rainforests.
Found at:
http://www.alphabetics.info/international/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/animals-of-the-rainforest.jpg

George26 Sustainability

Hi Everyone here is my sustainability writing.

Rainforests are being destroyed at a massive rate for many reasons. Many countries that have rainforests are poor and so they sell the land and the timber to get money to live. Poor people living in the city sometimes move to the country and may also destroy parts of the rainforests for farming. If we don’t take action the rainforests may be destroyed and many plant and animal species could become extinct. Luckily, more people are becoming aware of the need to protect the rainforests.

How to save them

· We could pay the slash and burn farmers to plant native tree crops in logged areas instead of destroying new undisturbed rainforest.

· Make National Parks where the remaining rainforests are.

· Start up tourism that isn’t destructive to bring money and to teach the people how to help sustain the rainforest.

· Give the poor people who live near the rainforest enough land elsewhere, money and employment so they don’t need to farm in the rainforest.

· The Government could create more jobs that the poor people could do by sending them to pick the rubber of rubber trees and collect the fruits off the forest floor.

· Create rainforest conservation groups and give them funds to start campaigns about saving the rainforest to educate the world.

· First world countries could reduce the debts that have to be paid by the poor countries with rainforests in them so the poor countries don’t have to use the rainforest to pay off the debt.

· Logging companies could stop destroying more trees than they need to and just take the trees that they plan to use.

If we work towards achieving some of these strategies we might be able to sustain the rainforests.

Tania 25

Hi Everyone,
Here are some an interesting fact.
Fact: An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed every second!!

Fact: Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day!!!

Fact: Rainforests provide many important products for people: timber, coffee, cocoa and many medicinal products, including those used in the treatment of cancer.
Cheer

Tania

Josh16

hi all have a look at these images

http://www.photoeverywhere.co.uk/west/usa/hawaii/hawaii-rainforest-national-parkDSC_3735.jpg

Pheynia 6 My Narrative

Snowy the crocodile lives in Darwin city her is not greeny brown he’s yellowy brown The rare 55-year-old albino will join six other adult saltiest at Crocosaurus Cove, a $29 million three-level crocodile theme park. Crocodiles can
Live up to maybe about 6 year or fewer meters long freshwater crocodile was hit by a taxi driving over the Leichardt River crossing on 23rd Avenue at about two o'clock.
This crocodile live in Darwin city he’s has his own little program and because he’s the only crocodile white and they
Named him snowy the crocodile. Done By Pheynia King

Tayla 9

Many rainforest leaves have "drip tips" - a pointed shape which helps drain off excess water from the leaf so they dont get mouldy and to stop insects and things eating them.

George 25 Huli warrior

Hi everyone here is a picture of a Huli Warrior from Papua New Guinea.

PS. He is having a cigarette!!!!!
Found at:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/h/huli-warrior-639197-sw.jpg

George 24 Website

Hi Everyone here is a website that shows you how many m2 of rainforest is getting destroyed since you loaded the page its amazing about 100m2 a second!!!

http://www.rainforestsos.org/pages/africa-indigenous

Josh 15

hi everyone here is my map of the world showing the tropical rainforests.

Tania 24

Here is some info about:
Boa Constrictors
The majority of Boa Constrictors live in Mexico, Central America and South America. They may also be found on some islands in the Caribbean.
They feed on birds, small rodents and lizards.
Boa Constrictors can be found in different habitats including rainforests, agricultural areas and deserts in trees or on the ground.
The average length of a Boa Constrictor is 1.8 – 3 metres but they can be as long as 5 ½ metres.

Boa Constrictors give birth to live young and may have as many as 50 or more infants during birth.

Tania 23 Orangutan

Orangutan
The Orangutan lives on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia.
They eat tropical fruit and also leaves, bark and insects.
Orang-utans can be found in rainforests as well as other forests. They will sleep in trees as well as move through the trees in search of fruit.

Male Orang-utans weigh approximately 45 - 113 kg and are about 120 - 150 cm in height. Female Orang-utans will weigh approximately 27 – 50 kg and are about 90 - 105 cm in height.
Orang-utans’ pregnancy periods last approximately 7 ½ - 8 ½ months. They will most often give birth to one infant, but like humans, they can have two.

Josh 14

Hi all here is my map of Australia showing the rainforests.

sam 24

Hi everyone

Here is another Fun fact

Fact: A typical four square mile patch of rainforest contains as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies.
Fact: Rainforests provide many important products for people: timber, coffee, cocoa and many medicinal products, including those used in the treatment of cancer.
Fact: Seventy percent of the plants identified by the U.S. National Cancer Institute as useful in the treatment of cancer are found only in rainforests.
Fact: More than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified by scientists as having anti-cancer properties.
Fact: Less than one percent of the tropical rainforest species have been analyzed for their medicinal value.

Sam 23

Hi Everyone

Here is a nother fun fact

Fact: Rainforests act as the world's thermostat by regulating temperatures and weather patterns.
Fact: One-fifth of the world?s fresh water is found in the Amazon Basin.
Fact: Rainforests are critical in maintaining the Earth's limited supply of drinking and fresh water.

From Sam

sam 22

Hi Everyone

It's time for a fun fact

Fact: Covering less than 2 percent of the Earth's total surface area, the world's rainforests are home to 50 percent of the Earth's plants and animals.
Fact: Rainforests can be found all over the world from as far north as Alaska and Canada to Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Fact: Rainforests are found on every continent across the Earth, except Antarctica.
Fact: There are two major types of rainforest: temperate rainforests and tropical rainforests.
Fact: The largest temperate rainforests are found on North America's Pacific Coast and stretch from Northern California up into Canada.
Fact: Temperate rainforests used to exist on almost every continent in the world, but today only 50 percent – 75 million acres – of these forests remain worldwide

from Sam

http://www.nature.org/rainforests/explore/facts.html

George 22 Saving the Rainforests

Hi Everyone here is a really good saying and photo about saving the rainforests.
Found at:
http://www.savetherainforest.org/savetherainforest_006.htm
If you are thinking 1 year ahead, sow seeds.
If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree.
If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.

Tayla

A friend of mum's emailed me this picture. It is a snake found in Indonesia

Tayla - Brown-Throated Three-Toed Sloth

Sloths are amonth the slowest-moving aminals on Earth. Instead of toes, their front and hind feet have three curved claws that allow them to easily hold onto tree branches and hang upside-down. The sloth is an arboreal animal, inhabiting the tropical forests of Central and South America.

arboreal means - that their bodies are made to live in and move around trees.

Josh13

Hi all here's my published narrative

The Rainforest Adventure

Luke, James and Pete were on a rainforest walk when they saw a baby gorilla. Pete suggested that they could pat it. Luke said, “Let’s try.” They went over to it and started stroking the baby gorilla. It sat down as if to say, “Keep going.” The rainforest they were in was nice and quiet. And had a wide variety of plants and animals.

They kept patting the baby gorilla but they heard a noise. It was a sort of thumping sound, then they realised what it was, and stood up. They looked around, then Pete said, “I think it’s coming from over there.”

“You are right, Pete.” said Luke. Then the mother of baby gorilla appeared on the scene. She bared her teeth as to show lots of anger they ran as fast as they could, she chased them for a long way. They didn’t notice that the mother gorilla had turned back. The only reason why they stopped was. They came to a section where the plants were the same.

“Oh, #@%*!!” said Luke.

“What?” Pete said.

Luke pointed; “This is marijuana.”

“Oh, oh,” James whispered.

Could things get any worse? Yes!

A little squeaky voice snapped, “Turn around slowly, make no sudden movements!”

They turned around and just managed to keep their laughter in. Pointing up towards them was a shotgun. At the end of it stood a tiny little dwarf and three big, drooling and growling bull mastiffs which towered over the dwarf.

“March,” the dwarf squeaked. “These dogs have killed people before. So don’t try to run.’’

They came to a little brick shed.

“In,” he ordered, and in they all went. This shed was quite dark. It had one tiny little window which had metal bars over it and a little table against the wall.

After some time they heard snoring outside the door. It sounded like the dogs. Luke looked at Pete and pointed at four loose bricks under the little table. Pete went over and gave them a gentle push. They came straight out, leaving a nice big hole. One by one they crawled though the opening, being very quiet because of the dogs.

There was a ladder going up to the roof just beside the opening. Quietly they went up the ladder. The roof was actually a helipad. And there was a steel box which they opened. It contained a beacon and a pistol. Luke put the pistol in his pocket and let off the beacon. They waited. An army chopper arrived after a long hour of waiting and took them back to their homes.

The drug squad wanted to catch the dwarf. But they never found him. Even today they don’t know were the dwarf is. The army still flies over where the marijuana used to grow, looking for the dwarf.

George21 Destruction of Rainforests

Hi Everyone here is my destruction of rainforests writing.

Rainforests are a very beautiful and important part of the world but they are being destroyed. If we continue to destroy them they will become extinct and all of the important functions that it performs will be lost forever. Tropical rainforests are particularly threatened as they have been halved over the years. Fifty two thousand square kilometres of rainforest are destroyed each year, at the rate of a football field per second and about two thousand trees per minute. Some scientists believe that at the rate humans are destroying rainforests all of them will be wiped out by the year 2050.

Logging

Logging companies cut down trees before they mature for timber. Large areas of rainforest are cut down to obtain only a small amount of timber. The machinery used to cut down the trees requires roads so more rainforest is destroyed to get to the selected trees. When the trees are cut down the soil is compacted by the machines and decreases the chance of regrowth, the chopping down of a tree also tears down all of the flora that live on it such as climbers, epiphytes and vines. When the machines take the tree from the forest it also runs over and damages other trees. Logging also triggers other causes of deforestation as the logging roads are used by farmers to gain access to the rainforest. Farmers then slash and burn it to make money keep their families alive.

Agriculture (Shifted Cultivators)

People who are very poor with no land (shifted cultivators) move into rainforest areas and make small farms. They followed the roads made by loggers into damaged rainforest areas. They create a lot of damage from the operations they perform. They move into the rainforest areas because they have had to sell their land to buy food or were forced from their own land. Many businesses such as agriculture, logging, dams, mining and industrial all are taking land from poor farmers. After a few years the soil becomes bad and they have to move on, destroying more and more of the rainforests. Logging roads lead to about 90% of the destruction caused by shifted cultivator’s.

(Cash Crops and Cattle Ranching)

Rainforest areas that have been logged and others that have been left alone are being cleared for cash crops, trees and cattle ranches. Most of the produce is for first world countries and export while the local peasants go hungry. When the soil doesn’t have enough nutrients the people leave and the ground that is left is barren has no nutrients and cannot sustain anyone or anything.

Mining

Mining has also lead to rainforest destruction due to clearing land to mine. Rainforest people are disregarded and roads are made through previously undisturbed rainforest. Huge pollution occurs from mining as they mine the materials from the rainforest.

Tourism

National Parks have helped to protect rainforests. However when they are opened paths, tracks and facilities have to be constructed to encourage tourists. Some tourists do not care about protecting the area, they may litter and may add to the destruction of the rainforests. Governments see tourism in rainforests as an easy way to get money. Ecotourism would be one way of teaching the tourists to care for the rainforest. Many companies who advertise themselves as ecotourism friendly places are often only saying that so they attract more tourists and then more money.

As rainforest destruction continues we should do as much as we can to save the rainforests.

Tania 22 Red-Eyed Tree Frog

Hi Everyone,
Here is some cool info about Red-Eyed Tree Frog
The Red-Eyed Tree Frog is located in Southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.

They are carnivorous and eat mostly insects and will also feed on other smaller frogs.
Red-Eyed Tree Frogs live in lowland rainforest areas near ponds, streams and rivers.

Red-Eyed Tree Frogs will grow to 2 cm (males) and 3-4 cm
(females) in length. It has bulging red eyes, beautiful blue
streaks and orange toes. If it runs from a predator the bright
colours may confuse or disinterest the predator. Like many
Tree Frogs, the Red-Eyed Tree Frog has suction cups on its toes that enable it to climb trees and on leaves.Red-Eyed Tree Frogs will lay clutches of eggs on the underside of leaves that are standing above a water source. When the eggs hatch the fluid that is inside the eggs helps washthe tadpoles down into the water.


Cheers

Tania

Josh 12

hi all have a look at his cool game
http://www.funnygames.co.uk/rainforest.html

George 20 People

Hi everyone, here is my Rainforest people.

Some groups of people have lived in rainforests for thousands of years, they have adapted to the hot humid climate. Rainforest people live in villages with the rest of their tribe. They have a deep understanding of the rainforest and how it works. They also know what plants and animals are edible and which ones to stay away from.

Rainforest people live in Africa, Asia, South America, Australia and Papua New Guinea. A large area of rainforest can support only a small amount of people so tribes are small and are spread thinly.

Rainforest people are hunter gatherers. Some tribes use blow pipes with darts that have been dipped in poison dart frogs poison to kill the animals. The tribes hunt in groups from twenty to thirty. Some tribes in Indian rainforests clear a part of the rainforest for farming then after 2 to 3 years they abandon the land and clear another patch. The African Pygmies are very small the tallest of them being up to 1.4m tall!

Rainforest people do not live for very long, the eldest people living to just over forty years. Diseases introduced by white settlers are still big killers of tribes. Rainforest people often decorate their bodies with dyes, feathers, flowers and other materials. Rainforest people are in danger of losing their homes due to the logging of rainforests.

Some rainforest people that have lived in the past are the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans. They were big civilisations that faced problems as we do today. These included water, food and housing shortages, maybe some of these problems became too hard to overcome so they became extinct.

Rainforest people have many medicines that are from plants in the rainforest. The medicines are kept by a Shaman (medicine man) in the village.

Hopefully the rainforests will be saved so it’s inhabitants can live their for a lot longer.

Tania 21

Hi everyone,
Here is a wicked rainforest site.
I played a jigsaw puzzle and it took me 15:32 minutes!! www.junglephotos.com/amazon/students/games/jigsaw1.shtml

Cheers
Tania

Bradley 18 the rainforest water cycle.

Hi everyone!!
I have drawn a rainforest water cycle. (start at the far right hand cloud.)
You may have to doubble click on it to bring it up bigger.
Cheers
Bradley:-)

Bradley 17 Wow thats one biiig flower!

Picture from: -Rafflesia_sumatra author ma_suska 2007 Wikipedia
Hi Everyone!!!
Did you know that the Rafflesia can grow up to 1 meter in length. Its leaves start decomposing as soon as the Rafflesia is fully grown. These fully decomposed leaves smell like rotting meat so all the scavengers go straight to it. when one lands on a leaf that's when the raffelisa pops up into a closed rose shape. Then the animal with no escape gets digested.
Cheers
Bradley

Bradley 16 Rocks are raining from the sky!!

Hi Everyone!
Did you know that apart from using blowpipes, bows and arrows and spears they create traps.
Here is a video of a trap I made today.



Cheers
Bradley:-)

George19 Fauna

Hi Everyone here is my Fauna.

Fauna

Rainforests have many species of animals living in them.

Rainforests host some of the most interesting animals in the world. These animals could become extinct if we keep on destroying their habitat and poaching them. The animals in a rainforest have to have some type of protection from predators. Some animals hide, others use camouflage, some scare predators and animals also have warning colours.

The emergent layer houses animals that have great balance and are light. Many birds live in the emergent layer such as parrots, vultures, eagles and macaws. The birds perform a variety of actions that helps to sustain the rainforest. These include vultures which pick dead animals up off the forest floor and eagles which eat monkeys from the branches.

The canopy provides homes for the most animals in the rainforest. Monkeys travel along the vines and branches of trees quickly, they eat fruit, insects and small reptiles. Other monkeys are orang-utans, gibbons and spider monkeys. Sloths, iguanas and green tree pythons are some other animals inhabiting the canopy. Vine snakes are so well camouflaged that sometimes people don’t know whether it is a vine or a snake!

The understorey is home to many smaller species of animals such as the monkeys, snakes, butterflies and birds. The snakes, frogs and bats hide under leaves. The butterflies pollinate the flowers and the ants walk along the branches of trees.

The forest floor is home to large animals such as anteaters, jaguars, tapirs and capybaras and smaller ones like tarantulas and wasps. The frogs eat insects and the lizards have amazing camouflage. The jaguar is the largest animal in the Amazon rainforest and is at the top of the food chain along with the anaconda. The jaguar is now one of the many endangered animals in the rainforest. The cassowary is the largest animal in an Australian tropical rainforest but is smaller than its other Australian cousin the emu. The cassowary is very fierce with claws on its toes and when angry will attack.

The many animals that are found in Tropical Rainforests are very interesting. They are living in quite a different habitat compared with other animals in the world.

Tania 20

Hi Everyone,
Here is the narrative that I wrote:

Croc’s Lunch

By Tania Barber

Deep in the Amazon Rainforest lived Samantha the Spider Monkey. She lived at the top of a huge Kapok tree that was surrounded by fruit trees. The Kapok tree was about 60 metres tall so it was a very safe place for Samantha and her family to live. It was far away from their enemies that lived on the forest floor.

One day Amy (Samantha’s friend) was having a drink in the Amazon River when she fell in. SPLASH! Sam heard her cry for help and swung down on a long vine to the river to save Amy. She swam to land towing Amy behind her.

Suddenly they saw Cameron the Cankerous Crocodile, hiding amongst the mangroves at the edge of the river. His mouth was drooling and he was waiting for his lunch. Cameron snapped his jaws but just missed them. Quickly they swung up to Amy’s home, out of his reach. “That was lucky!” Amy exclaimed.

Samantha happily whispered, “That was too close. You can come and stay in my home until he goes.” So Amy did. They hid in Samantha’s tree until Cameron got tired of waiting and slid into the river with a hungry tum. Samantha and Amy were very happy so they had a sleep over party to celebrate.

The next day Samantha said to Amy, “I’m going to tease that cranky old croc.”

“Be careful Samantha. It might eat you,” gasped Amy.

“Trust me. He won’t hurt me. I’m too fast and smart,” giggled Samantha.

So Samantha swung down and started to tease Cameron. She pulled his tail. The cranky croc turned around and snapped at Samantha but Samantha had disappeared back up the vine. Samantha went and pulled his tail again. Cameron was very grumpy and snapped again. “Missed again,” teased Samantha as she swung over him and landed on his back. Two seconds later she went back down and bounced on his head and bounced back into trees. Cameron had had enough so he slid back into the river.

Samantha though, had a pile of rocks and started to throw them into the river. This made Cameron furious. He went over to the bank knocking down a small tree with his tail. He tried to knock down the one Samantha was in but it didn’t even move. “Err” Cameron cried. “You wait little monkey. You’re my lunch!”

Samantha grabbed some rotten fruit and started to throw it at Cameron’s mouth singing, “Here have this for your lunch.” Cameron swallowed one and he hated it!!

Meanwhile Cameron’s friend looked at Samantha and his mouth was dripping with hunger. Together they made up a plan to catch Samantha, but they didn’t even whisper it. So, of-course, Samantha heard it. She called down, “Do you really think that plan is going to work?” So she slowly explained a better plan.

“Go past 300 trees over there and there is a clearing. Then I won’t be able to escape.” They were stupid enough to follow her plan. In the clearing was a big hungry tiger. When he saw the crocs he chased them. He grabbed Cameron’s friend and killed him.

Cameron was very sad and even angrier with Samantha because she had played a trick on him that had caused his friend to die. He was determined he was going to kill Samantha.

So one day he saw Samantha grabbing a vine so he chased her. He was so busy chasing her that he didn’t feel the current pulling him along the river. Suddenly, he found himself on the edge of a waterfall. He tried to swim to the bank but the current was too strong and the waterfall pulled him over the edge. He couldn’t swim back up the river so he made a new home down there. That was the last Samantha ever saw of Cameron.

Josh11

hi all here is my exposition

Josh Fogarty

Lucy Creek Station

PMB 104

Via Alice Springs

NT 0872

7 September 2009

Dear sir,

It is my belief that tourism can be good for rainforests. Tourism can be used to benefit rainforest plants and animals. Recently our class was taking about tourism and how it affects our rainforests.

Personally I think that tourism that has been setup in the right way is good for rainforests.

That means there could be paths for people to follow and areas for people to stop with compostable type toilets. These could be huts where people have lunch and listen to talks which the cleaners keep clean. There could be tour guides, equipped with First Aid, to supervise the tourists on their walks to prevent them littering, stealing or causing damage. The rainforests have paths leading to the most interesting places possible; therefore people don’t destroy the forest by making their own way through it.

Tourists can be given a seedling, that gardeners have propagated, for planting on the edge of the rainforest at the end of their walk. They can be given the opportunity to make a gold coin donation. Even though the tourists don’t have any entry fees to pay, they pay by planting seedlings, which ends up spreading our rainforests. If the tourists litter they will have to plant an extra amount of seedling. Therefore, tourism can be good for rainforests because it can increase the size of them.

The tour guide teaches kids and adults how to respect and care for rainforests appropriately.

The tour guide also teaches people how to deal with dangerous animals so that if they come across one, they know what to do. Education is the key to saving our rainforests.

It is important that we protect our rainforests and tourism is one way we can do this.

Yours faithfully,

Josh Fogarty

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Hi Everyone here are some pictures of a green anaconda which I am doing my description on.

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