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.

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by the elevated canopy

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by the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

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By the Canopy Raised High

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Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy

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.

And so we're trying to disseminate information about the importance of the canopy, the beauty of the canopy, the necessity of intact canopies, to people outside of academia.

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.

Usually, secondary forests have only one canopy layer, whereas primary forests have several.

On high hath He raised its canopy , and He hath given it order and perfection .

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

and We made the sky a secure canopy and yet they turn away from these Signs .

and We made the sky a secure canopy and yet they turn away from these Signs .

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

And We have made the heaven a guarded canopy and ( yet ) they turn aside from its signs .

We have made the heaven a well secured canopy yet still they turn away from Our signs .

And We have made the heaven a guarded canopy and ( yet ) they turn aside from its signs .

We have made the heaven a well secured canopy yet still they turn away from Our signs .

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.

We basically did a striptease, architectural striptease, where we're framing with this kind of canopy the underside of three levels of expansion of Juilliard, about 45,000 square feet cutting it to the angle of Broadway, and then exposing, using that canopy to frame Tully Hall.

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

A nematode ( Myrmeconema neotropicum ) that infects canopy ants ( Cephalotes atratus ) causes the black coloured gasters of workers to turn red.

So I hope I've showed you that canopy dwellers are not just insignificant bits of green up high in the canopy that Tarzan and Jane were interested in, but rather that they foster biodiversity contribute to ecosystem nutrient cycles, and they also help to keep our global climate stable.

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

However, in tropical areas they are also common on inflorescences, fruits and in aerial situations (e.g., in the canopy of trees).

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.