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

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

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

Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

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.

And this is one of the ways we do it, by learning as much as we can about something so remarkable and so iconic in the rainforests there, in order to help protect trees, animals and of course the water sources.

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.

With the political crisis in 2009, illegal logging has proliferated and now threatens rainforests in the northeast, including its lemur inhabitants and the ecotourism that the local communities rely upon.

A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships.

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

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

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

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.

Forestry In forestry, monoculture refers to the planting of one species of tree.

(k) Trees outside forests as well as urban and peri urban forests

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.

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

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

Outbreak species help to renew the forest by killing older trees.

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

One objective for Copenhagen should be to create a well endowed global fund to support policies that discourage the cutting and burning of trees, help countries such as Brazil and Indonesia protect their rain forests, and provide alternative livelihoods to those who currently benefit from destroying them.

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

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

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.

It has three main objectives control of illegal logging, control of forest fire, and rehabilitation and reforestation of degraded lands.

Deforestation, often the result of illegal logging, is an acute problem in the Philippines.

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

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.

This modification of the forest provides the ants with more nesting sites inside the stems of the Duroia trees.

Behavior Coral snakes vary widely in their behavior, but most are very elusive, fossorial snakes which spend the vast majority of their time buried beneath the ground or in the leaf litter of a rainforest floor, coming to the surface only when it rains or during breeding season.

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.

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

In order to reverse this trend, it will therefore be necessary to increase forest management and reafforestation and to control the most important factors contributing to forest loss (excessive tree felling, unsuitable planting practices and forest fires among others).

The forest floor, however, is far from a biological desert, as is often the case in tree plantations.

In the past few years, logging operations have mainly been carried out for the purposes of thinning forests to ensure proper growth.

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