Rainforest Cafe Restaurants Inc., a company specializing in dining, hospitality, entertainment, and gaming, based in Houston, Texas. To date, the company owns restaurants in the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the U.A.E., and Japan. Rainforest Cafe focuses on local tourism for a majority of their income. Each Rainforest Cafe restaurant is designed to depict some features of a tropical rainforest, including plant growth; mist, waterfalls, and figures of rainforest animals, including elephants, gorillas, tigers, jaguars, snakes, crocodiles, frogs, iguanas, butterflies, and tropical birds. It also includes fish tanks. Most locations also have themed exteriors as well as interiors. The Rainforest
Rainforest of the Austrians But there has not been enough money for buying the whole forest and the government has needed foreign help for realizing their environmental protection plan. At the end of 2005 33.7 square kilometres were bought. These area got the symbolical name 'Rainforest of the Austrians' (ger. Regenwald der Österreicher). As a result of further protection initiatives there are now 90.3 square kilometres (65% of the Esquinas-rainforest) part of the National Park. 55.8 square kilometres are privately owned, but they are planned to be integrated to the National Park as well. In the year 2000 the organization Rainforest of the Austrians