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

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

The effects of drought are even felt in the rainforests.

Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

Most primate species live in tropical rain forests.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.