Environmental sciences ECOSYSTEMS RAINFOREST By: Christina L. Jackson The business dictionary definition of rainforest is a dense forest of evergreen trees growing in regions of heavy year-round rainfall in tropical latitudes (such as Amazon Basin‚ Borneo‚ New Guinea‚ North-East India‚ and Zair Basin) and warm temperate latitudes (such as Eastern Australia‚ Florida‚ South Africa‚ South Brazil‚ South and Central China‚ South Japan‚ and New Zealand’s North Island). Nearly half of these forests are in
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1‚Jane Goodall 1. Jane Goodall is a noted humanitarian‚ environmentalist‚ and has spent many years observing the behaviour of Chimpanzees in their native habitat. Born: April 3‚ 1934 (age 79)‚ London‚ United Kingdom Children: Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick Awards: Hubbard Medal‚ Nierenberg Prize‚ Community of Christ International Peace Award‚ Benjamin Franklin Medal‚ Edinburgh Medal‚ William Procter Prize for Scientific AchievementMore Education: University of Cambridge (1962–1964)‚ Newnham
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Elizabeth Choy A Singaporean Heroine Elizabeth Choy Su-Meiwas born on 29 November 1910 in Kudat‚ Sabah. She was a Hakka from North Borneo. During the Japanese Occupation‚ together with her husband‚ she worked as a canteen operator at a hospital where patients from General Hospital had been moved to. Elizabeth Choy and her husband secretly brought food‚ medicine‚ money‚ messages and even radios to British internees. Unfortunately‚ they were caught by the Japanese. Her husband was arrested on
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coral reefs over the past 20 years. Large blasted areas are very slow to recover because corals have difficulty establishing on loose or sandy substrate. In southern Philippines‚ between Malaysia (Borneo) and Philippines (Palawan) illegal dynamite fishing is still a common practice. The area between Borneo and Palawan Island are the target of ESI where the dynamite fishing is common. The ESI president observed during his field in 2008 “Finding dynamited fish in local markets is unfortunately quite
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5. Which agencies that enhance the ecological corridor for the Bornean Elephant at the Lower Kinabatangan? The agencies that enhance the ecological corridor for the Borean Elephant at the Lower Kinabatangan are Sabah Wildlife Department and the Borneo Conservation Trust (BCT). 6. What is the hope from Datuk Masidi Manjun with this programme? Datuk Masidi Manjun hopes with this programme‚ it will provide protection for the land from any threats such as encroachments of plantation activities
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states and three (3) federal territories‚ separated by the South China Sea with eleven (11) states and two (2) federal territories (Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya) in Peninsular Malaysia and two states and 1 federal territory (Labuan) in East Malaysia (Borneo). A bubbling‚ bustling melting pot of races and religions where Malays‚ Chinese ‚ Indians and many other ethnic groups live together in peace and harmony. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur‚ while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government.
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People read newspapers such as Borneo Post‚ The Star‚ News Strait Times and Berita Harian. Newspaper gives us a lot of latest information about the issues around us either in or out the country. During break and lunch time‚ students and staff always take along with them a newspaper. Reading newspapers give a lot of information but only a few students read newspapers because students are not really interested with this kind of reference‚ as they know that they can surf news-online and they have no
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History of the Philippines: People first reached the Philippines about 30‚000 years ago‚ when the Negritos immigrated from Sumatra and Borneo via boats or land-bridges. They were followed by Malays‚ then Chinese beginning in the ninth century‚ and Spaniards in the sixteenth. Ferdinand Magellan claimed the Philippines for Spain in 1521. During the next 300 years‚ Spanish Jesuit priests and conquistadors spread Catholicism and Spanish culture across the archipelago‚ with particular strength on the
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Hmas Warramunga i44‚ was one of three Tribal-class destroyers built for the RAN launched in 1942 during World War II. Hmas warramunga’s name comes from the Warumungu Aboriginal people from the Tennant Creek area. On 6 August 1950‚ HMAS Warramunga sailed to join United Nations forces involved in the Korean War. Most of the ship’s first tour consisted of patrols and shore bombardments. During her deployment Hmas Warrumunga evacuated wounded soldiers at Chinnampo in December 1950 under difficult conditions
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CHAPTER 19: EL FILIBUSTERISMO PUBLISHED IN GHENT I. PRIVATIONS IN GHENT a. Reasons for moving to Ghent i. Cost of printing in Ghent was cheaper than in Brussels ii. To escape from the enticing attraction of Petite Suzanne II. PRINTING OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO a. He pawned his jewels in order to pay the down payment and the early partial payments during the printing of the novel III. VENTURA‚ SAVIOR OF FILI a. Valentine Ventura in Paris learned of Rizal’s predicament and immediately sent him
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