Oxford Bookworms Library

English graded readers series for secondary level to adult

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Rainforests

Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell.

Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?

  • ISBN: 978-0-19-423381-1
  • Pages: 64
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 216x129 mm

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  • Suitable for younger learners
  • Word count 6,480

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