Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

Funds are needed to invest in new low carbon energy sources, reforestation and protection of rain forests, land use changes, and adaptation and mitigation.

The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra was chosen because, first, it represents significant area of forests on the island of Sumatra, because of the biodiversity, of lowland and mountain forest.

Among plants of Venezuela, over 25,000 species of orchids are found in the country's cloud forest and lowland rainforest ecosystems.

Now, if we have evidence, which we now have, that wetlands, forests, unclear monsoon system, the rainforests, behave in this nonlinear way.

Many species of Heliconia are found in rainforests or tropical wet forests of these regions.

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

The Andean region has less than 1 of the world s land area, but more than 15 of its plant life.

The effects of drought are even felt in the rainforests.

Paper, for example, typically comes from sustainable forests, not rainforests.

Most primate species live in tropical rain forests.

It had occurred on land, in rainforests of South America and Africa, where landowners had been paid not to cut the trees down.

This shows the beauty of the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra.

Much of the island is covered with rainforest, but is subject to commercial logging.

Rainfall in the hot zone is heaviest in the Pacific lowlands and in parts of eastern Colombia, where rain is almost a daily occurrence and rain forests predominate.

Each hectare of rainforest, for example, stores 500 tons of CO2.

Netherlands Since 10 October 2010, the Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of four countries Each is expressly designated as a land in Dutch law by the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

One such initiative is the REDD framework (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), an effort to create financial value for the carbon stored in rainforests.

An estimated 10 15 of the original rainforest remains on this island.

The challenges of building a civilization in a desert are very different than the problems of building a civilization in a rainforest.

Most of the terrain is covered with tropical rainforest and several large rivers are fed by the high rainfall.

The lowlands of the west face the Adriatic Sea.

Initially, most of the island was covered by rainforest, but as a result of human activity its area gradually declined and by the end of the 20th century was not more than 10 of the island.

A second species, the white lipped peccary ( Tayassu pecari ), is found in the rainforests of Central and South America.

But such land is usually wooded.

The low river banks are interrupted by only a few hills, and the river enters the enormous Amazon rainforest.

We urge that early action be taken, as it is much cheaper to preserve rainforests than to rehabilitate them.

Cambodia's primary forest cover fell from over 70 in 1969 to just 3.1 in 2007.

Women have led the way to protest corporate encroachment on the rain forest and its life sustaining, planet sustaining environment.

In fact, the artificially inflated demand for ethanol and for the corn to manufacture it wound up driving up food prices (which pushed roughly 30 million poor people into the ranks of the malnourished). It also ate up more arable land, which led directly to the destruction of rain forests and generally created a situation that will result in more CO2 emissions over the next hundred years.

Slow lorises range across tropical and subtropical regions and are found in primary and secondary rainforests, as well as bamboo groves and mangrove forests.

They cultivate very small plots of land, with very low agricultural productivity.

The Constitution of the Netherlands is the fundamental law of the European territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

A REDD agency will be charged with treating rain forests as a natural resource that is to be preserved and restored rather than exploited and destroyed.

Because this new kingdom comprised not only of the lands of the former Dutch Republic but also of the former Austrian or Southern Netherlands it was also not appropriate to continue the use of the old arms.

In June 2007, the World Heritage Committee included a sizable portion of Madagascar's eastern rainforests as a new UNESCO World Heritage Site.

They occur particularly in the rainforests of Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Northern India, the Philippines, Borneo and New Guinea.

Non human primates live in a diverse number of forested habitats in the tropical latitudes of Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and South America, including rainforests, mangrove forests, and montane forests.

A people's movement led to the passing of a Land Reform Act, which gave communities the right to acquire ownership of land, including woodlands.

The Río Guaviare divides eastern Colombia into the llanos subregion in the north and the tropical rainforest, or selva, subregion in the south.

The broad, cultivated valley lowlands contain about half of the country's richest farmlands.

The final retirement of the Republican lion came in 1815 with the establishment of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands .

The park has four basic regions the Pacific coastline, alpine areas, the west side temperate rainforest and the forests of the drier east side.

In this context, I should like to highlight the initiative led by Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea of creating a Rainforest Coalition to protect all forests and ensure payment for the environmental services that they provide us.

In the southern lowlands, temperatures average about higher throughout the year.