Rainforest

The tropical rainforest at Tropical Islands is a biotope that is naturally kept in ecological balance by a host of micro-organisms and insects. They are all a welcome part of the ecosystem and play their part, for example by aerating the soil and breaking down the leaves lying on the ground in the planting beds into humus. This includes Pycnoscelus surinamensis, also known as the Surinam or greenhouse cockroach, which prefers to live in warm, damp areas of soil. For ecological reasons, we cannot do without our cockroaches and beetles, which are neither harmful nor dangerous. Please bear with us if you happen to come across one or two of these inhabitants outside their natural habitat.