Corcovado – Exploring Costa Rica’s National Park Corcovado National Park is located on the Osa Peninsula‚ on Costa Rica’s southern side. The magnificent beauty and spectacular vista make this park one of the most isolated rain forests in the country. It’s also home to a remarkable selection of trees‚ endangered plants and animal species. Even though this park is unique and breathtaking in all of its features‚ it’s also worth mentioning that this is a very remote region. Visitors only have access
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The rainforest is a beautiful place filled with fauna and flora. Is the rainforest being destroyed? In a matter of fact it is. It is caused by many reasons. The three most popular ones are logging‚ construction and especially furniture. This essay will discuss how we are destroying the rainforest. The most significant danger to the rainforest of the three that will be outlined in this essay is logging. Logging can be used for many things. People mostly take up logging for the cold hard cash. But
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The main type vegetation in this ecozone is the Taiga forest consisting of stunted coniferous trees‚ such as black spruce‚ jack pine‚ paper birch‚ trembling aspen‚ etc. The northern edge of the ecozone is bordered by the treeline. Wildlife: This region is famous for one of the most impressive displays of wildlife: 50 species of mammals including the barren-ground caribou‚ wolf‚ lynx‚ arctic fox‚ the grizzly bear‚ etc. Also‚ there is a massive bird migration of swans‚ geese‚ loons‚ ducks‚ tree
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more than 500 species of trees. Plus‚ there are still more species to be discovered since research has only just begun. Secondly‚ due to the large amount of vegetation‚ it has been estimated that 20% of earth’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rain forest. This has given the Amazon rainforest it’s nickname as the “lungs of our planet”. Third‚ some plants may contain a substance which can be used to cure a disease. Despite what the Amazon has to offer‚ they’re being destroyed every
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The Savanna A savanna is a rolling grassland scattered with shrubs and isolated trees. It can be found between a tropical rainforest and desert biome. Not enough rain falls on a savanna to support forests. Savannas are known as tropical grasslands. They are found in a wide band on either side of the equator on the edges of tropical rainforests. They are located in Africa‚ South America‚ India‚ and Australia .Some animals that habitat here are wildebeest warthog elephants zebras and rhinos
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stages in life that no only help us learn new things but also teaches us lesson that we take and apply to things that we experience in the future. These changes can be witness within yourself as well as in the people around us. In the movie Forrest Gump it beings with the main character Forrest sitting on a public transportation bench with his suitcase and a woman comes as sits beside him and he offers her a box of chocolate. After she rejects the offer he begins to share with her his life story about
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managed as a strict nature reserve or wilderness reserve in an HFLD (High Forest and Low Deforestation) country like Guyana can contribute to the achievement of REDD+ objectives. REDD means Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in developing countries. Its overarching objective is to reduce greenhouse gases. REDD-plus includes the role of conservation‚ sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries. This serves as a mechanism to
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French broom is an invasive plant that destroys the surrounding environment. Broom is described as an “upright‚ evergreen shrub‚ commonly to ten feet tall” (“Invasive Plants of California’s Wildland”). It is an invasive plant species‚ commonly found in numerous places in California‚ for example‚ the Bay Area. Broom is a noxious weed‚ especially in the states of Hawaii‚ Oregon‚ Washington State and California. Nowadays more people are recognizing how detrimental it can be to nature. In fact‚ there
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the film Forrest Gump shows all
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The Fynbos Biome makes up the largest part of the Cape Floral Kingdom‚ which is the smallest of the world’s six floral kingdoms. The Fynbos Biome in particular is noted for its high levels of biodiversity (the highest in world) and endemism‚ which in turn results in a high number of threatened and endangered species. The Cape Floral Kingdom was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2004. 2 Discussion Fynbos is found predominantly in the the South Western Cape in an area extending from just
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