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

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

And the Great Bear Rainforest is generally considered to be the largest coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem in the world.

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.

So which came first, the rain, or the rainforest?

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

The effects of drought are even felt in the rainforests.

A picture that you're familiar with the Amazon rainforests.

He lives in rainforests and savannas.

In areas undergoing rapid deforestation, such as much of the Earth apos s tropical rain forest regions, frequent satellite observation can reveal the extent and pace of deforestation.

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

Most primate species live in tropical rain forests.

It's not just about the Amazonas, or indeed about rainforests.

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like we clear cut forests.

It could destroy the Great Bear Rainforest, the largest temperate rainforest in the world.

They grow in tropical forests like this one and they also grow in temperate rainforests, that we find in Washington state.

2. Combating deforestation (chapter 11).

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

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.

It will also reduce deforestation.

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

Tropical rainforests arose, sparking new layers of interdependence.

loss of rainforest and woodland, increases in domesticated land, and species exinctions.

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

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

Countering deforestation is not without its challenges.

A. Forest Clearing and On site Burning of Cleared Forests

Well, the king cobra is literally a keystone species in these rainforests.

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

The alarming rate of deforestation continues to warrant international attention and there is a need to renew the pledge to combat deforestation, restoring the forest functions in degraded landscapes and improve the livelihoods of poor people living in and around forests worldwide.

The Iwokrama Rainforest Programme, to which the Government of Guyana has devoted almost 1 million acres of pristine rain forest for research into our rich biodiversity, also incorporates two projects involving our Amerindian people.

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

We can increase it a bit at the expense of rainforests, but there's a limitation very soon.

Jodi Lomask, and her wonderful troupe Capacitor, joined me in the canopy in my rainforest site in Costa Rica.

So rainfall cycle and water regulation by rainforests at an ecosystem level.

So I was at a Grateful Dead benefit concert on the rainforests in 1988.

(g) Perverse subsidies and their impact on deforestation and forest degradation

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.

With so much rain soaking the soil in rainforests, water is nearly unlimited, and accordingly, rain forest trees can afford to move and lose more water than other plants.

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

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.

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