Willie Smits restores a rainforest

Within a year, Rainforest Crunch was on the shelves.

'You were in Southern Africa honey, not the rainforest'

The total area of the rainforest is 25,000 km².

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

There are still some uncontacted tribes residing in the Amazon Rainforest.

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

It's a bit like going and cataloging a piece of the rainforest.

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

Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.

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

Conscious of the negative ecological impact of the hurricane on the coastal region and the inland rainforest,

You were in Southern Africa honey, not the rainforest https t.co I2mERZIjJ0 Masuka Mutenda ( MasukaMutenda) 4 July 2016

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

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

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

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

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

Despite a global pledge to reduce significantly the loss of biological diversity by 2010, huge areas of rainforest and oceans continue to be destroyed.

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

And what happened then was the sponsor gave revenues to Ecosia, and Ecosia is giving 80 percent of those revenues to a rainforest protection project.

What is so impressive about the new rainforest initiative is that it comes from the developing countries themselves it represents their creativity and social commitment.

It was once almost completely covered by the Atlantic Rainforest, one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world, of which only 7.3 remains.

A variety of habitats are used by the family from tropical rainforest to deserts, although few species are capable of surviving at very low temperatures.

After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock.

The Atacama Desert, one of the driest areas on the planet, lies to the southwest of the Altiplano to the east lies the humid Amazon Rainforest.

The tribe Gymnetini is the biggest of the American tribes, and Goliathini contains the largest species, and is mainly found in the rainforest regions of Africa.

East of the Andes lies the savanna of the Llanos , part of the Orinoco River basin, and, in the far south east, the jungle of the Amazon rainforest.

Meanwhile, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees continued to help repatriate Rwandan refugees from the rainforest of the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The eastern half of Colombia, comprising more than half its territory, is plain and composed by savanna and rainforest, crossed by rivers belonging to the Amazon and Orinoco basins.

And by linking these together, we could have 90 percent of the site as a rainforest, instead of only 10 percent of scrubby trees and bits of road around buildings.

One concrete action that should be taken at Bali is support for the initiative of the Rainforest Coalition, a group of developing countries that want help to maintain their forests.

The movie Chumpi The Waterfall follows the life of young Chumpi and his community, the Achuar people who live in the Amazon Rainforest in the border between Peru and Ecuador.

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.

Redwood rainforest is incredibly difficult to move through, and even today, individual trees are being discovered that have never been seen before, including, in the summer of 2006, Hyperion, the world's tallest tree.

By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

The difference with Ecosia though is that, in Ecosia's case, it draws the revenues in the same way, but it allocates 80 percent of those revenues to a rainforest protection project in the Amazon.

As Global Voices board member Rosental Alves recently put it, in the pre Internet age the world's people faced information scarcity an information desert. Now we all struggle with information overload an information rainforest.

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.

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.

Location and size The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra consist of three national parks Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP) (8629.75 km²), Kerinci Seblat National Park (KSNP) (13,753.5 km²) and Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (BBSNP) (3568 km²).

Dendrocnide moroides, also known as the stinging bush, gympie stinger, mulberry leaved stinger, gimpi gimpi, gympie, stinger or moonlighter, is a large shrub native to rainforest areas in north half of eastern Australia, the Moluccas and Indonesia.

Even so, about four percent of the primeval Redwood rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected entirely protected in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls along the north coast of California, including Redwood National Park.

And in a place where we thought no life at all, we find more life, we think, and diversity and density than the tropical rainforest, which tells us that we don't know much about this planet at all.

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.