Project Ten- Panama Rain Forests

                                                    THE RAINFORESTS OF PANAMA

Hi, my project is on the rain forests of Panama. A rain forest is a very dense forest found in tropical areas, with very large amounts of rainfall. Panama rainforest had been affected by the Panama Canal construction at the beginning of the 1900s. Large amounts of the rainforest had been flooded for the purpose of the canal’s construction, and as a result, trees plants and other life was damaged.

FACTS: (1) Currently, the forest covers around 58% of the total land area of Panama.

(2) The rain forest contains mammals like armadillos, anteaters, sloths, deer, tapirs and jaguars. There are also 93 frog and 650 bird species.

(3) Panama loses more than 1 percent of its forest cover every year.

(4) Only 9.6 per cent of the panama rain forest is open to public. For zip lining, tours and other things, but 90.4 per cent of the rain forest is closed to public.

(5) A single tree in the Panama rain forest contained 950 beetle species.

(6) Did you know that a range of hill in the panama rain forest looks like a lady in El Valle it is called the sleeping Indian girl

(7) In  the rain forest of panama there is 6 or 7 tribes.                                                                                  

                                                                      

There are hundred of frog and bird species in the Panamanian Jungles

Sleeping Indian Girl Mountain Range.

Kuna woman displaying fabric



There are in reality seven indigenous peoples or nations living in the Republic of Panama: the Ngäbe, the Kuna, the Emberá, the Wounaan, the Buglé, the Naso Tjerdi and the Bri Bri. According to the May 2010 census, they represent 12.7% (417,559) of the total population of 3,405,813.