You can count numbers all around you, from the eight legs on a spider to the one nose on your face. But can you the animal species found in the rainforest or the fish in the River Amazon? Find out all about RAINFOREST in THE BIG COUNTDOWN, including its extraordinary variety of plant and animal life, its tribal people, its layered structure, its role as an oxygen producer and why we need to protect it.

The Big Countdown looks at popular topics and investigates the great many numbers that make them fascinating. From the mind-bogglingly large to smallest and most precious, this series helps us understand that it's not just our days that are numbered.

This book is part of a book series called The Big Countdown .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Hachette Children's Group .

Mark Ruffle studied graphic design and then worked as an art editor for Oxford University Press, before becoming a freelance illustrator and designer. When he's not drawing animals or spaceships, among other things, he enjoys walking his dogs and cycling in the Cotswolds, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Since landing on planet Earth, Paul Rockett has spent much of his time reading up on the adventures of human life, while also experiencing a few of his own. In his quest to find out more about his chosen home planet, Paul has travelled, doodled, eaten a lot of food, plundered dusty libraries and gazed out of windows. Having gathered together a vast amount of fascinating data, it is now his mission to present as much as he can in interesting ways, so that any passing Martian can see how brilliant life is on Earth.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Counting down the rainforest
• 2: 30 million different insects in the rainforest
• 3: 8, 936, 400 km2 of the world is tropical rainforest
• 4: 700 thousand tribal people in Brazil
• 5: 23, 483 football pitches destroyed each day
• 6: The Amazon River is 6, 400 km long
• 7: 3, 000 edible fruits
• 8: 260 different species of monkey
• 9: 137 plant, animal and insect species die each day
• 10: 88% humidity
• 11: 28% of the world's oxygen
• 12: 15-year lifespan of poison dart frog
• 13: Four layers of the rainforest
• 14: Further information and large numbers
• 15: Glossary
• 16: Index