the worlds surface and is 1.2 billion hectares‚ yet over half of all plants and animal species live or grow here. The largest rainforest in the world is Amazon which is 600 million hectares and covers nine nations- Brazil‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Guiana‚ Ecuador‚ Colombia‚ Venezuela‚ Guyana and Suriname. Tropical rainforests are home to many rare plant and animals‚ they contain 80% of all insects and 90% of all primates. Many plants and animals can only survive in the conditions tropical rainforests provide
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It depends on how you define highest mountain‚ they are other mountains that are as tall and high as mount everest. A definition of highest mountain can come as the mountain with highest altitude‚ tallest mountain or highest mountain above earth’s center. Mount Everest Mount Everest has the highest altitude( altitude is measured in feet above sea level). It is 8850m or 29‚035 ft high above sea level. Other mountains maybe taller (being taller means " the total vertical distance between the base
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Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. The five Founding Members were later joined by nine other Members: Qatar (1961); Indonesia (1962) – suspended its membership from January 2009; Libya (1962); United Arab Emirates (1967); Algeria (1969); Nigeria (1971); Ecuador (1973) – suspended its membership from December 1992-October 2007; Angola (2007) and Gabon (1975–1994). OPEC had its headquarters in Geneva‚ Switzerland‚ in the first five years of its existence. This was moved to Vienna‚ Austria‚ on September 1‚
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Philippines grows an abundant varirety of fruit crops primarily for local consumption and export market. Banana is considered as the most important fruit crop in the country in terms of volume production and export earnings. Philippines ranks second to Ecuador as the top banana-exporting country in the world. Total bananas shipped in the first 11 months of 2011 amounted to 1.88mn metric tons‚ 3.86% higher in 2010. Companies are now targeting Russia as another market for Philippine banana exports aside
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in which their life revolves around. The Quechua are an extremely large indigenous group of the Andean region of South America‚ with the population of almost eleven million people which are mostly present in the following six countries: Colombia‚ Ecuador‚ Peru‚ Bolivia‚ Chile‚ and Argentina. The Quechua practice the Roman Catholic religion and speak Spanish and other Quechua languages. It is well known that indigenous groups have a nexus‚ in which their lifestyle resolves around almost entirely and
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AN ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATION FOR THE PRACTICE OF CHARGING MEMBERSHIP FEE’S FOR COSTCO INC. INTRODUCTION Supermerchants across the United States are becoming a very popular way for consumers to do their shopping. From furniture‚ to electronics‚ to clothing‚ to grocery‚ supermerchants offer many different goods all under one roof. A consumer can enter the store and be able to shop for just about anything‚ and redefines the term ‘one stop shopping.’ Costco falls into the category of a
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the time it take the trees to grow mature enough to produce earnings from nuts or lumber. There are four tiers to follow for successful agricultural crops. Haab‚ T. F. (2009). Payments for sustainability: a case study on subsistence farming in Ecuador. Harvard International Review. In Latin America‚ innovations are being created in the environmental policy for economist to make payments for environmental services. Rural households who pertain to the PES vary of their obligations due to their
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Company Overview Chevron was found in Pico Canyon‚ Los Angeles in 1879 with the name of Pacific Coast Oil Co. Later it was renamed to Standard Oil Company of California. The company was known as Chevron after the acquisition of Gulf Oil Corporation in 1984. This merger was the largest merger till that time in the history of the United States and it doubled the oil and gas reserves of the company. Chevron merged with Texaco in 2001 & formed a new company named ChevronTexaco. Texaco was one of the
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Northridge Earthquake: Response Because the Northridge earthquake occurred in the early morning hours of the Martin Luther King holiday when traffic volume was extremely light‚ emergency response needs were limited‚ and agencies were able to focus rather quickly on mobility decisions (U.S. Department of Transportation‚ 2002). Had this earthquake occurred during peak traffic hours the devastation would have been unprecedented. The USGS responded rapidly and efficiently to the Northridge earthquake
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Organization 24 Resources 26 Michell Marie Boutique Michell Marie was founded in 2006 by its young owner Andrea Michell. The current corporate office is located in Manhattan‚ New York with retail stores located in California‚ Ecuador and Panama. Michell Marie was one of the first boutiques in the tri-state area that provided a variety of foreign clothing‚ cultural professional attire and historical background on its clothing. The dress shop began as a small storefront on Fifth
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