If you cut down the trees, the plants would die. The rain would make mud. Floods would kill people and animals. Houses would get filled with mud. All kinds of animals and plants live in the kapok tree.
Kapok trees are very tall in the rain forest.
It produces new life and it oxygen and shade. Here are some of the animals that live in the rain forest. Snakes, monkeys, ant eaters, toucans, frogs and sloths. It's a magical tree where creatures live. Jaguars get their food there.