Category: Forests & Rainforests

Malaysia: Symphony of the tropical rain forest [paperback]

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He is aware that human praxis and the human condition necessarily involves a transgression of this norm, and that some killing and exploitation of non-human life forms is unavoidable. Many of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals live in forests, and 1.6 billion people rely on benefits forests offer, including food, fresh water, clothing, traditional medicine and shelter.” Forests also combat climate change by acting as a carbon sink, which means they soak up the carbon dioxide that would otherwise go up into the atmosphere and contribute to climate change.

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LIFE MAGAZINE July 26, 1937

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Large predators are uncommon in tropical rainforests because large prey species are also rare. Fellows are allowed the freedom to move beyond orthodox science and thus have reshaped and collectively redefined ideas of natural resources, from logging in Amazonia (Nepstad 1989) to a study of whale shark tourism in Belize (Quiros 2005). Infractions such as clearcuts and the burning of forests were often overlooked by forestry personnel, because of favors they received form the concession owners while they were touring the districts.

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A Magic Web: The Forest of Barro Colorado Island

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I hope to believe there will be as much action and encouragement in this regard between both parties. Most share a common commitment to the factory’s structural role as a source of social mobilisation.... Ortega de Wing’s — and much larger swaths of farmland — are reverting to nature, as people abandon their land and move to the cities in search of better livings. What many people don't realize is the forest also acts as a giant filter that cleans the air we breath.

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Rain Forests - The Lungs of the Earth?

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British Trees - Guide to the native trees of Britain, plus links to other web resources on forestry and conservation of British Native trees, including forest conservation organizations. Even in the Amazon where vast majority of such forests are found, vàrzea are disappearing rapidly for development. This period saw the development ofb completely novel economic and policy mechanisms to try to help conserve tropical forests — such as timber boycotts and certification — and at the same time assist communities living in these forests — by means of extractive reserves, the marketing of rainforest products, and collaboration with native peoples to identify plants with medicinal properties.

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LIFE Magazine - March 30, 1959

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It is also an effort to connect surfers and their communities to larger issues affecting ocean health. Mapping different types of forest The maps in this book show four types of rain forest: lowland, mangrove, montane and former rain forest. When plants and animals die scavengers and decomposers are. It seems I have passed down my love of rainforests to Little Man, who even reads some of my favorite childhood forest books now at bedtime.

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Making Things Grow: A Practical Guide for the Indoor

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The state also supports 77,000 miles of rivers and streams and several dozen marine ecosystems. Community solidarity helps to ensure a community’s resiliency to the problems created by climate change. Group selection is essentially a small-scale clearcut where groups of trees in a given area are harvested over many years so that the entire stand has been cut within 40 to 50 years. Brain Images of normal and diseased brains can be found at the Whole Brain Atlas. Growing at the rate of approximately 3.5 million annually it is by far the fastest growing of the industrialized countries.

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Mimicking Nature's Fire: Restoring Fire-Prone Forests In The

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Rainforests by their very nature harbor the greatest biological gene pool in the world. User identified locations will also serve as geo-caches where other users can find things in nature that other community members value. The main feature of them is that human activity is restricted significantly. These pastures provide a source of emergency forage during the dry season when high-quality forage supplies are depleted (Serrao and Toledo, in press), and unforested lands are easier to hold against expropriation than forested lands (Hecht et al., 1988).

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National Geographic Magazine - January 1927 - Volume LI,

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They attach themselves to the roots of the mangroves by hook-like projections from their shells. The worst occurred in 1982-1983 and 1997-1998 when millions of acres of forest burned. Many of the world's successful development programmes have acknowledged and applied these principles; while a long list of environmental disasters testifies to the consequences of ignoring them. Yet these ecosystems are also unique, supporting rainforest communities rich in plants and wildlife and containing some of the most massive trees on Earth.

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On the Burning Edge: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought

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Moreover, the families with the highest species diversity in the Colombian rainforests today were already dominant 50 million years ago. If, however, fires in the rainforest become the new normal, comments Olympic National Park wildlife biologist Patti Happe, “then we may not have these forests.” A team of international climate change and rainforest experts published a study earlier this year warning that, “without drastic and immediate cuts to greenhouse gas emissions and new forest protections, the world’s most expansive stretch of temperate rainforests from Alaska to the coast redwoods will experience irreparable losses.” In fact, says the study’s lead author, Dominick DellaSala, “In the Pacific Northwest…the climate may no longer support rainforest communities.” Speaking of the anthropogenic, on our way back, Finis and I stopped in Port Angeles, the largest city on the peninsula.

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Batfishing in the Rainforest

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In a forest restoration context, where fast growing tree species with strong global timber markets are readily available, this may suggest that monocultures are an option. Antarctica surrounds the South Pole, is a frozen continent, and has few animals. Has been recent tree falling and trail has some slight damage but easy to walk around. The rat ceremony performed in villages throughout East Flores, Indonesia provides an example of re-analyzing nature-culture relationships within climate change adaptation.

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