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    Why should tropical rain forests be conserved? Tropical rainforests are thought to posses more plants and animals than any other forests on earth. Most tropical rainforests are located around and near the equator‚ they have existed on earth for hundreds of millions of years. But they are among the most endangered ecosystems globally due to humans. They are an important part of human life and are know as the “lungs of the planet” they have many animals‚ and many natural medicines come from tropical

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    Raiders of the Lost Ark

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    Animals Kinkajou: honey bear Genus:potos Spiecies:flavus habitat Fifty degrees North to fifteen degrees South‚ and thirty-five degrees to sixty-five degrees in the Amazon Rainforest lives a mammal called the kinkajou. The kinkajou mostly sleeps in the upper canopy‚ hiding in the holes of the trees during the day napping. It’s a cute little animal with the body grows from 16 to 30 inches; its tail grows from 15 to 33 inches. Its shoulder height is up to 10 inches and it weights 3 to 10 pounds

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    Disappearing Diversity

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    Disappearing Diversity Politics‚ Population‚ & Practices The Tropical Andes hotspot is located on the western coast of South America‚ from western Venezuela to Northern Chile and Argentina‚ and includes portions of Columbia‚ Ecuador‚ Peru and Bolivia. The focus country will here will be Peru‚ a developing country in Latin America. This country is special because it became the latest developing country to enact a domestic climate change initiative with a goal of lowering carbon emissions in its

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    The Factor of Haze

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    skin diseases certainly attack us. Meanwhile‚ weather conditions in the tropical rain forests was too hot so can cause burns own plants due to increased temperature causing haze occurs. This is because the global warming phenomenon. Therefore‚ it is time to save our earth. Besides the weather‚ deforestation activities that occur freely also cause hazy weather conditions. Loggers in the forest open forest with this simple way. They be not responsible for causing countries if forced to pay the

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    Around the world in 80 treasures PART 10 The 7th treasure. Brazil. Umahara Headdress Task 1.Learn the new vocabulary: Kuyab Igbatsa tribe The Variva River rain forests devastation share scale timber logger grazing land to feed the world with beef burgers threshold remains of rain forests tributary of the Amazon to cling to traditional way of life hunter gatherer to threaten cattle rancher Catholic missionaries to forcibly remove headdress immense importance human

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    Deforestation of Sumatra

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    by agriculture. How does this effect the forest of Sumatra? Sumatra is the biggest island of Indonesia‚ nearly twice the size of Britain. It was a island nearly completely covered in a unique and pristine ecosystem - one of the worlds last virgin rain forests. However the sheer global hunger for paper‚ biofuels‚ cooking oils (margarine) and chocolate have all taken a massive toll. It is suggested that since the 60´s around half of the rain forest has already been lost and by 2020 Sumatra

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    similar and the same due to the higher Simpson Indices on Equitability and Diversity while it is a different case for the forest. First‚ we need to identify the forest study site as a secondary or primary growth type. From the tables of species richness and number of species seen in an area‚ we can deduce that the forest study site is a secondary growth forest. Secondary growth forests are products of secondary succession. Secondary succession‚ as described in Campbell (1996)‚ is the type of succession

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    and water pumps (Malhi & Wright‚ 2004)‚ suggesting that rainforests have an influence on climate. Rainforests absorb heat‚ and due to cooler air above the rainforests‚ rain develops‚ causing humidity and constant wet weather conditions in the forests. The forests evaporate large quantities of water‚ forming rain clouds which are transported to other parts of the world‚ causing rainfall. Deforestation directly affects this process and causes dryness in the rainforests‚ changing the rainfall pattern in

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    Problems with Wildlife

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    to wildlife‚ whether they’re rich tropical forests‚ mangroves‚ swamps‚ coral reefs‚ or your own local grassland or woods. Most wild plants and animals are so closely adapted to their own particular habitat that they become rare or endangered if it is damaged or removed. Globally‚ the most worrying losses of habitat are the tropical rain forests‚ because these contain‚ by far‚ the largest number of species. Although large areas of tropical rain forests still survive‚ they are still being lost at

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    Quiz 10 Biology

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    Points Awarded | 9.50 | Points Missed | 0.50 | Percentage | 95.0% | 1. The major reason for tropical deforestation is A) governments clearing forests to build cities. B) hurricane destruction of large regions. C) people clearing forests to open up land for agriculture. D) natural succession as global warming occurs. Points Earned: | 0.5/0.5 | | Correct Answer(s): | C | 2. The reason that the pronghorn antelope is not found outside North America is most likely that A) its

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