The word "rainforest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a tropical forest with a heavy annual rainfall, or to describe the ecosystem that lives in such a forest. For example: "The Amazon Rainforest is home to an incredible variety of plants and animals."
"He had an absolute focus on bread and butter issues, and because of that was able to focus on visionary things, like building the Royal theatre, or fixing up the historic buildings at Macquarie street, saving the rainforests, introducing anti-discrimination laws, but above all I think saving the rainforest," Carr said.
It is possible to spot sloths and pink dolphins from the glass-walled comfort of a sleek vessel furnished with a barman called Robinson and a menu of rainforest delicacies (the giant river snails are a surprising highlight).
No stay in the rainforest is complete without a good old bout of diarrhoea.
I would argue that these delightful quirks of the rainforest affect men and women in equal measure.
The area of the Amazon rainforest – roughly 2.3m square miles – is larger than Western Europe and the forest stretches over nine countries: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela.
You'll have time to explore this coastal temperate rainforest by foot and kayak - look out for black bears, wolves, otters, eagles and the indigenous First Nation culture.
They narrowly pictured the Amazon rainforest as a primeval wilderness before the arrival of Europeans.
This surviving enclave of rainforest, dense with lianas and giant bromeliads, was described to me as a "centre of energy" rivalled only by Peru's Machu Picchu.
Most of its population lives on the coast, so as soon as you head south you're surrounded by millions of acres of pristine rainforest and savannah.
I am completely in awe of the women in our rainforest projects around the world.
"The Correa administration seems intent on trying to drill its way to prosperity, which has turned what was once pristine rainforest into a natural sacrifice zone crisscrossed by oil wells, roads and palm plantations," said Kevin Koenig of the group Amazon Watch.
