RAINFOREST Click on the image to view details The world's rainforests are currently disappearing at a rate of 6000 acres every hour (this is about 4000 football fields per hour). When these forests are cut down, the plants and animals that live in the forests are destroyed, and some species are at risk of being made extinct. Needles to say, if we lost our rainforests, our planet would be in big trouble. Perhaps there is no reason to panic just yet, but there’s no better time