animals category. Malaysian should be grateful for owning these animals in our tropical rainforest. However‚ we destroy the forest‚ hunt these animals and export them to other country. Without realizing it‚ these animals are under extinction. That ’s mean‚ we ’re almost losing them from this world. If we keep ignoring them‚ We might not see the Leatherback turtle in Redang island or the Malayan Tiger in the zoo‚ or Borneo pygmy (elephant) or even the orang utan anymore‚ if actions are not taken In future
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often will not occur in the absence of disturbance‚ whether natural or anthropogenic.[4] Furthermore‚ biodiversity after regeneration harvest often mimics that found after natural disturbance‚ including biodiversity loss after naturally occurring rainforest destruction.[5][6] Deforestation occurs for many reasons: trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel (sometimes in the form of charcoal) or timber‚ while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock‚ plantations of commodities and settlements
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self-governing since 1959; and two territories in northwestern Borneo‚ Sarawak and Sabah (then known as North Borneo)‚ which by 1960 were well advanced on the road to independence. The newly elected government of Singapore was in favour of merging with Malaya‚ and in 1961 Tunku Abdul Rahman‚ prime minister of Malaya‚ took the initiative and suggested that a plan should be devised whereby Singapore‚ North Borneo‚ Brunei (another British territory in Borneo that had achieved autonomy)‚ and Sarawak would be brought
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Evolution of Tigers The tiger (Panthera tigris)‚ a member of the Felidae family‚ is the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera include: The tiger‚ lion‚ jaguar‚ leopard. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia‚ the tiger is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. 1‚ The origin and evolution of the tiger. Carnivorous mammals evolved from Miacids small pine marten-like insectivores that lived 60 million - 55 million years ago. The miacids split into
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Forest". Orangutans are found in the tropical forests of Sumatra and Borneo. They are the most arboreal of the great apes and move amongst the safety of the trees from one feeding site to the next. They are so well adapted to arboreal life that they cannot place their feet on the ground‚ instead they walk on the outside of their curved foot. There is a scattered population of orangutan in Indonesian Borneo‚ Malaysia Borneo and northern Sumatra. The different habitats have isolated the orangutan
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The peopling of the Philippines: A cartographic synthesis Jean-Christophe Gaillard[1] and Joel P. Mallari[2] Abstract: This paper aims to plot cartographically the different theories proposed to explain the peopling of the Philippines. The first map locates the existing Pleistocene and Paleolithic archaeological sites while the next seven figures compile the different theories dealing with the evolution or dispersal of the Austronesian speakers. A final figure tends to summarize and formalize
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ENVIRONMENT A Term Paper Submitted As A Minimum Requirement In English IV TO: Mrs. Rosalie L. Bustamante (English Teacher) BY: Miko Glenn G. Saballa IV Garnet TABLE OF CONTENTS i. About the Author 1 ii. Acknowledgement 2 iii. Dedication 3 iv. Thesis Statement 4 Chapter 1 Environment A. Introduction 5 B. Background of the study 6 C. Purpose of the study 7 D. Statement of the
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Australia‚ where severe drought and forest fires have exacerbated the loss of forest since 2000. Asia‚ which had a net loss of forest of some 600 000 ha annually in the 1990s. Need of Forest Restoration: Within the last ten years‚ tropical rainforests have been destroyed at an annual rate of 0.8% of area (Whitemore‚ 1997). So this things brings to human being to think about the forest restoration. Forest restoration is defined as “actions to re-instate ecological processes‚ which accelerate
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marsupials‚ monkeys and the world’s largest rainforest‚ South America is the continent with everything - from glaciers to deserts. It became a continent in its own right on breaking away from Africa and Antarctica 120 million years ago. Its fauna and flora are therefore descended from organisms either on the continent then (marsupials‚ for instance) or that managed to make their way there during its isolation. The Amazon Basin is the world’s largest rainforest‚ drainage area for its second largest river
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Species of Cat-fox and Chupacabra Alexandra Jane G. Fojas Amanda Thea R. Sungcad Theresa Mae C. Toboso Overview The researchers aim to trace the relatedness of the Philippines’ mythical creature‚ Sigben with that of the newly discovered Cat-fox off Borneo and the Chupacabra of Puerto Rico and Mexico. These are species belonging to the mammalian-eutherian catergory. Sigbin is by many crypto zoologist classifications both a designated crypto and a mythological creature of the Philippines. Its appearance
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