the Indian Ocean. The rainforests of Madagascar are located in very humid‚ low-elevation‚ and narrow regional strips along the east coast of the island. The Madagascar rainforest is just another ecosystem‚ it actually acts as a home to many endangered species including the silky sifaka‚ sportive lemur‚ and the red-ruffed lemur. Another very important species that is indigenous to this rainforest is the rosy periwinkle‚ which is used to cure leukemia. Furthermore‚ rainforest are distinguished by receiving
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to the rainforests. Have you noticed‚ or are you too caught up in your day? Have you ignored your actions and there impacts because you don’t want to face the truth? I hope you feel ashamed‚ for not realizing how beautiful this Earth is and can be‚ like a garden bursting with life. Instead you treat rainforest’s like rubbish on the side of the street. My name is Charley Hill‚ and I stand here before you today to express the threats and consequences of deforestation in The Amazon Rainforest. I fight
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According to the article satellite images reflect that the Amazon rainforest is diminishing at an enormous rate. About 10‚000 square miles of this beautiful forest is being lost to pastures for grazing‚ soybean plantations‚ and illegal logging. Since the year before there has been a forty percent increase in the deforestation of the Amazon forest. The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest. They expect this horrible trend to only become worse. Some conclude that if the forest is not
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Agriculture in the Amazon Rainforest Throughout a hundred centuries people have worked hard to sustain productive agriculture and dense human populations. Certain forms of agriculture are possible‚ and should be considered sustainable‚ for the economic development of tropical rainforests. For thousands of years humans have created a disturbance in the rainforests by creating areas of concentrated diversity of species within the landscape. The Indigenous people of the Amazon fostered palm forests
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Tropical rainforests are currently a habitat that is currently experiencing serious losses. Some major reasons why the rainforest are having serious losses are because of agricultural expansion‚ urbanization‚ and the extraction of wood. Currently‚ the biggest cause is agricultural expansion which turned the forest into pastures and cropland to meet the growing needs for food. A study shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from forests
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tropical rainforest is a hot‚ moist biome found near Earth’s equator. The World’s largest tropical rainforests are in South America‚ Africa‚ and Southeast Asia. Tropical rainforests receive from 60 to 160 inches of precipitation that is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. Tropical Rainforest: Animals Tropical rainforests support a greater number and variety of animals than any other biome. One of the reasons for this great variety of animals is the constant warmth. Tropical rainforests also
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The tropical rainforest is a warm biome and ecosystem. An important tropical rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest. The latitude and longitude of the Amazon rainforest is 3.4653° S‚ 62.2159° W. The Amazon rainforest is very hot and moist. The average temperature of the tropical rainforest is 80°F. The average precipitation is 60 to 160 inches that is distributed evenly throughout the year. The tropical rainforest is suitable to many plant and animal life. It contains the most biodiversity
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Human Anatomy The word anatomy is derived from greek word ”anatome” which means cutting up. However anatomy does not strictly mean cutting up. Human anatomy is the science which deals with the structure of the human body and for the purpose of studying the structure‚ cutting up a body is necessary. Under the scope of anatomy one studies the theatre in which action is taking place. In other words one can say that anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history. Subdivisions of human anatomy: In
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of the rainforest are important and what they use the rainforest for. Loggers wants to make a living. They rely on the Amazon Rainforest to support their way of life. Logging bring jobs to the poor. Without people being able to log‚ poverty would have grown throughout Latin America. Loggers creates more lands for agriculture and roads. When having more land for agriculture‚ there are more and better abundant production of food and materials. To begin‚ the logger has been in the rainforest since
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Ecosystem Composition of the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest One of the world’s largest temperate rainforests is the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest (Wade et al. 2008). The Valdivian Temperate Rainforest ranges along the Pacific coasts of southern Chile and Argentina in South America‚ between 36 and 47° S latitude. This forest occurs in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome (Perry et al. 2008). The broadleaf evergreen flowering trees that dominate the Valdivian are believed to have evolved
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