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.

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.

The southern part is covered by the Amazon rain forest and belongs mostly to the Amazon basin.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Someone once asked me, Who is better or worse, is it Unilever or is it P G when it comes to their impact on rainforests in Indonesia?

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.

Byron Bay also lies close to subtropical rainforests, and areas such as the Nightcap National Park with the Minyon Falls are all within easy reach of the town.

Tropical and seasonal rainforests, though confined to Yunnan and Hainan Island, contain a quarter of all the animal and plant species found in China.

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.

By maintaining their rainforests, tropical countries provide an invaluable global service, one for which they have so far failed to be compensated.

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.

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.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Ranching induced deforestation is one of the main causes of loss of some unique plant and animal species in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America as well as carbon release in the atmosphere.

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.

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.