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Sentence Examples A catlike civet known as a fossa prowls the rain forest of Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park. A plum-throated cotinga, like the one shown above in a lowland rain forest, is one species of over a thousand that make Peru a birder's paradise. Nasi said properly managed logging concessions can help to preserve rain forest biodiversity in other areas. In uneven-aged tropical rain forest ecosystems, the same principle seems to apply. The African rain forest is the second largest contiguous tropical forest in the world after the Amazon. The central mountain chain extends the length of the island and is covered in tropical rain forest. American cutaneous leishmaniasis is transmitted by sandflies in rain forest areas mainly among mammals and occasionally humans. In Malaysia some of these reports are leading to scientific research teams heading into the rain forest to find a Sasquatch, or evidence thereof. The Tsimshian had survived and flourished for thousands of years in their lush and bountiful rain forest home. Severin also travels into the Central American rain forest to mingle with the Kuna. His mission was to spread the word of God to people living in the depths of the Amazon rain forest. Today, their thick white walls and ocher terracotta roofs stand out from the lush green rain forest that surrounds them. If it rains particularly hard in the Sumatran rain forest, the already arid region of East Africa is onset with drought. Frank's sister Yvonne and her Ghanaian husband, Shastra, live next to a Hare Krishna temple in a rain forest outside Accra. Scott said the industry had picked up in the past 10 years in the province, which boasts different habitats, from rain forest to valley bushveld. It is an area dense with the thick woods and craggy terrain of a largely virgin Arctic rain forest. Combined with Auzet's clitter clatter, the effect is reminiscent of an imagined rain forest tribal dance. The landscape ranges from volcanoes and Afro-alpine mountains to savanna and lowland rain forest. Over 80 percent of Gabon is tropical rain forest, with a plateau region in the south. One current path of research involves an Australian rain forest tree, the Moreton Bay chestnut. Show More Sentences The storm destroyed many of the blossoms and rain forest fruits that flying foxes eat, forcing the bats to alter their normally nocturnal habits. The swamps include sago palms, mangroves, and patches of tropical rain forest. Ironically, a road-paving team spotted the golden-crowned manakin in the heart of the rain forest of Brazil. Other highlights include a rattlesnake collection, an aviary, and a walk-through rain forest. Not the friendliest neighbor in the rain forest, the goshawk is one of the most secretive of birds when it comes to nesting. The newlyweds then jetted off to Costa Rica for an active honeymoon of hiking, diving and exploring the rain forest. The ringtail lemur, of course, has a beautiful ring tail that they hold up to locate each other in the rain forest. The native people have been an example of harmonic coexistence with the ecosystem of the tropical rain forest. This biosphere reserve and national park covers a vast area of tropical rain forest in northern Sumatra. The reservoir of the Bakun dam in Sarawak, Malaysia, which will submerge 700 km2 of tropical rain forest. The transition zone between the tropical rain forest and the savannah is most suitable for its production. Or they'll build a pipeline through pristine British Columbian rain forest rather than open Nebraska farmland. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. In the upper reaches of the Amazonian rain forest are strange areas, sometimes the size of a football field, in which grows only one kind of small tree. A resort guide leads an interpretive treetop walk through the rain forest of Lamington National Park, designated a World Heritage area. Volunteer guides roam the greenhouses ready to answer questions about rooms filled with rain forest tropical plants, blooming orchids, aroids and gesneriads. The researchers enlist the help of local Pygmy people known as the Baka as trackers to lead them through dangerous and near-impenetrable rain forest. We hiked up Vermont Valley with a guide, Ellroy, to look for indigenous wild St. Vincent parrots, through thick rain forest of figs, palms, balsa and incongruous pine trees. Instead, rain forest trees are often supported by thick buttress roots. The drop-off around its margin is extraordinarily abrupt, with sheer white and salmon-pink walls extending a half mile to the lowland rain forest below. Show More Sentences Mango, papaya and genips grow wild in the forest, which is not technically a rain forest but looks the part with dripping trees and muddy trails to hike along. He and his family sought refuge from marauding mobs in the equatorial rain forest, where they lived for over eight months. The tropical rain forest of the upper Orinoco valley contains hundreds of species of trees. There it turns northeastward and crosses the remote tropical rain forest of northwestern Bolivia. But he escapes, and falls back down to earth, landing in a tropical rain forest. The state has saltwater swamps, mangrove forests, oil palms, and dense tropical rain forest. The main issue that orangutans face is the loss of their tropical rain forest habitat. Fifty million dollars that we're spending to build an indoor tropical rain forest in Iowa. The climate is hot and humid, the rugged terrain covered by impenetrable tropical rain forest. Keeping the sea on the left, the road passes through acres of paddy fields, interspersed with areca gardens and the odd patch of remnant rain forest. In the natural rain forest, this separation of rubber trees is easily produced, thanks to the unknowing help of seed dispersers such as monkeys and dung beetles. It's not the last stage of their overall saga, though, they have yet to see many friends before getting back to their rain forest. As evidence, he cites studies of the Yanomamo, a polygamous tribe that dwells in the Amazonian rain forest. It is grown extensively in the irrigated desert oases of the Peruvian coast and in savanna and rain forest climatic areas of Brazil and Colombia. My riding is on the west coast of Canada and it is typically known as a rain forest. In particular, the bogs below the Indonesian rain forest store large quantities of carbon. These people fled into the rain forest to escape the fighting and violence in the region. Support creation of a protected area system to include 1.5 million hectares of Liberia's remaining rain forest. Vancouver is famous for its mix of mountain, rain forest, ocean shore and urban life. Experience a tropical climate and animals in their natural environment in Masoala rain forest in Zurich Zoo. Show More Sentences The SACHA INCHI, Plukenetia volubilis Linneo, is a wild climber oleaginous plant which grows mainly in the rain forest. Globally important ecosystems with a high biodiversity such as the Indonesian rain forest are under a massive threat. This area of tropical rain forest in north-western Borneo, lying along the mangrove coast of the South China Sea, was infested with pirates, slavers and head-hunters. The mountains and the rain forest are unlike anything I've ever seen. Unfortunately, there is not enough money or park staff to stop the poaching and illegal timbering that are nibbling at the edges of the rain forest. Usually, Titanotrichum can be found around the headwaters of streams under subtropical broadleaved rain forest dominated by Fagaceae and Lauraceae. Individuals working to save the rain forest also encourage the production and sale of vegetable ivory products, creating economic value for living rain forest plants. With its purchase, Chipkos will protect 100,000 square feet of endangered rain forest land. Later, river deltas formed and the sediments deposited were colonised by swamps and rain forest. One has only to think of the destruction of rain forest in Indonesia or Brazil driven by powerful profit incentives and the unquenchable appetites of consumers in richer parts of the world. This twatwaffle has been whining about the rain forest for years. I visited the rain forest, and guess what? Still rainy. North of this is fresh water swamp, containing different vegetation from the salt water swamp, and north of that is rain forest. Finally, the factors I have mentioned that are negatively affecting biodiversity are unfortunately aggravated by the current production of biofuels, which is having an adverse effect on the tropical rain forest in particular. A dense tropical rain forest once covered much of the land close behind Orange's coastal strip, this has now largely been cleared, except in areas close to rivers. Tropical rain forest covers most of the area. For they fully appreciate that their best chance to protect one of the world's richest tropical rain forest ecosystems lies in finding a way for sustainable use of it's natural resources with the people living there. The wide spectrum of landscapes in Indonesia ranges from tropical rain forest with lush vegetation, to smoking volcanic cones with bizarre lava fields, to craggy coastal cliffs and sandy beaches bordered with palm trees. About a third of the world's tropical rain forest has already gone. I would also draw your attention to the money spent on promoting rural development, and to the expenditure on environmental research, protecting the tropical rain forest and promoting environmentally friendly energy. Suriname is blessed with bauxite, an unspoiled rain forest, which covers 12 percent of the country, and lots of available arable land. Show More Sentences The Norwegian Polar Institute tracks about 1,000 polar bears, while deep in the Amazonian rain forest RFID is being used to help save the white-lipped peccary, a wild boar. The preservation of tropical rain forest land is a top priority at McDonald's. Our global rainforest beef policy is simple: we do not purchase beef from rainforests or recently deforested land. Humidity and flying will worsen your sausage-like legs, so a trip to the Caribbean rain forest is not an ideal babymoon destination. In many tropical rain forest trees, large woody prop roots develop from adventitious roots on horizontal branches and provide additional anchorage and support. As recently as two generations ago, its members used axes made of stone and lived in the immense and impenetrable rain forest which has always provided them with a safe haven. In this respect, tree farming contracts and the encouragement of farmers' participation in the promoter's rain forest rehabilitation programme are key issues. It was Raoni, Chief of the 8,000 Kayapos Indians, who made international headlines fighting for environment issues in the rain forest, while struggling for aboriginal rights, as well. A feral pig can rototill 100 square feet of rain forest in a single morning. Carbon consumption resulting from the remaining exhibition activities will be compensated with a donation to the World Wildlife Fund for a rain forest project. Here, a nearly authentic replica of a section of the tropical rain forest on Madagascar has been created on 11,000 square metres of enclosed space. They are trying to save the tropical rain forest that is their home. This rain forest policy is strictly enforced and closely monitored. Within the leading group, there are also conflicting economic interests in the extraction of minerals, in the felling of tropical rain forest and in the production of opium. Amphibian chytrid fungus broadly distributed in the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest. Dispersal of seeds of Hymenaea courbaril in a logged rain forest in the peruvian Amazonian. Evidence for dispersal of fig seeds by the fruit-eating characid fish Brycon quatemalensis Regan in a Costa Rican tropical rain forest. The area is a lush rain forest, resplendent with flora very foreign looking to this haole boy. Nothing's more exhilarating than walking through a rain forest in the rain. He took on the challenge to see firsthand the problems facing the Amazon rain forest, through which the long river winds. On the pages of this colorful book, Serafini presents the reader with partial photographs of a rain forest habitat. Show More Sentences Rapid resource depletion is particularly rampant in states with large stands of tropical rain forest, despite sustained protests by many of the inhabitants living in the areas affected. Acai is the much-heralded exotic palm fruit from the Amazon rain forest. Acai berries and pulp have been harvested and consumed as food and for medicinal purposes by indigenous Amazon rain forest people for centuries. In the temperate portions of the earth, those forests tend to be needleleaf trees, while in the tropics, they can be broadleaf trees growing in a rain forest. It is believed that the animals that were able to cross the land bridge were savannah animals as the rain forest animals would not be able to cross Central America. Annick Swenson, a brilliant but prickly ethnobotanist whose research in the remote Amazon rain forest could revolutionize fertility and childbirth. Swaziland has a wide variety of landscapes, from the mountains along the Mozambican border to savannas in the east and rain forest in the northwest. She was left lying on the road in the town of Anapu in Para, a state where loggers and ranchers have deforested huge sections of the world's largest rain forest. Common ostriches formerly occupied Africa north and south of the Sahara, East Africa, Africa south of the rain forest belt, and much of Asia Minor. The study site was at 714-837 m altitude, in submontane rain forest. Today, Oregon's landscape varies from rain forest in the Coast Range to barren desert in the southeast, which still meets the technical definition of a frontier. The river and its tributaries flow through the Congo Rainforest, the second largest rain forest area in the world, second only to the Amazon Rainforest in South America. His advocacy eventually resulted in the creation of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, a tract of nearly one million hectares of protected rain forest. Even population diffentiation for maternal and biparental gene markers in Eugenia uniflora, a widely distributed species from the Brazilian coast Atlantic rain forest. A ceiling-to-floor rain forest is constructed in the school's commons area by making cardboard carpet-roll trees, and colorful paper vines, leaves, flowers and rivers. Examples from Classical Literature On the leeward sides, patches of rain forest are found only in the moister areas. The northwestern half of the island is rain forest and is nearly uninhabited. Yet in ancient times the northern border of the rain forest was the seat of America's most advanced civilization. Tropical jungle borders the rain forest all the way from southern Mexico to southern Brazil. Williams made an ecological study of the floor fauna of the Panama rain forest. The sun is setting in the rain forest of French Guiana, a country in northern South America. Millions of bright-red land crabs scuttle out of the rain forest and pour down the mountainside, like lava from a volcano. We had our choice of sea and river kayaking, windsurfing, snorkeling, mountain biking, diving, caving and hiking in a tropical rain forest. Rainfall is abundant in a Hawaiian rain forest, a verdant world dotted with 'ohi'a lehua blossoms and the flowers of the kanawao, 'oha, and other shrubs. Find more words! 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