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rainforests and Asia
In South Asia, about 88 % of the rainforests have been lost.
There are many different types of tropical moist forests, although most extensive are the lowland evergreen broad leaf rainforests, for example várzea and igapó forests and the terra firma forests of the Amazon Basin ; the peat swamp forests, dipterocarp forests of Southeast Asia ; and the high forests of the Congo Basin.
The commercial tree is most heavily cultivated in the rainforests of Asia, notably in Java ( hence its nicknames ), Philippines, Malaysia, Hainan Island in China as well as in South America.
In these warmer areas the taiga has higher species diversity, with more warmth-loving species such as Korean Pine, Jezo Spruce, and Manchurian Fir, and merges gradually into mixed temperate forest or, more locally ( on the Pacific Ocean coasts of North America and Asia ), into coniferous temperate rainforests.
It is a resilient member of the lily family that grows in the dark, tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia and Africa.
The area through which the system meandered was among the most challenging in Southeast Asia: a sparsely-populated region of rugged mountains ( 1, 500 – 8, 000 feet ), triple-canopy jungle and dense primeval rainforests.
They are distributed in shady rainforests or in open scrub or woodland in the tropics and subtropics of Africa, India, Asia, Queensland ( Australia ), and the Americas, although most are found in Africa.
Colugos are shy, nocturnal, and restricted to the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia.
Monkey Trails showcases monkeys and other animals from the rainforests of Asia and Africa.
The extant species are found in forests in South and Southeast Asia, with a single species in the rainforests of Central and West Africa.
Into 2008, a Wake Up Woolworths campaign, largely funded by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, was pushing Woolworths to sever its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper over claims of deforestation of Indonesian rainforests.
Elettaria is a genus of one or two species of cardamoms, native to southeastern Asia from India south to Sri Lanka and east to Malaysia and western Indonesia, where it grows in tropical rainforests.
In 2010, Moore was commissioned by forestry giant Asia Pulp and Paper to report on its logging activity in Indonesia's rainforests, resulting in a glowing review.
The division left tropical rainforests located in five major regions of the world: tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, with smaller outliers in Australia.
However, not all tropical rainforests occur on nutrient poor soils, but on nutrient rich floodplains and volcanic soils located in the Andean foothills, and volcanic areas of Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central America.
The Malayan tapir was once found throughout the tropical lowland rainforests of Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar ( Burma ), Thailand, and Vietnam.
The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and it is probable that the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf.
One of the largest and still mostly unexplored forests in southeast Asia, it is separated from other rainforests in the region by the large Khorat Plateau to the north.
They flourished in the rainforests of a coastal region that became Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and southwest China, and lived further inland throughout central Asia as well.

rainforests and Africa
Some examples of important biodiversity and / or high endemism ecosystems are: El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, Costa Rican and Nicaraguan rainforests, Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon Rainforest territories, Madagascar dry deciduous forests, Waterberg Biosphere of South Africa and eastern Madagascar rainforests.
The kola nut is the fruit of the kola tree, a genus ( Cola ) of trees native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.
He particularly pointed to the absence of Drosera species from almost all arid climate zones, countless rainforests, the American Pacific Coast, Polynesia, the Mediterranean region, and North Africa, as well as the scarcity of species diversity in temperate zones, such as Europe and North America.
Roughly half of the country's arable land, as well as rainforests of rich and unique biodiversity, were to be converted into palm and corn monocultures, producing food for export from a country where a third of the population and 50 percent of children under 5 are malnourished, using workers imported from South Africa instead of locals.
They are absent from tropical rainforests, but a few species are associated with open woodland, for example the Wood Pipit of southern Africa which is found in open woodland savanna and miombo woodland.
The Heart of Africa exhibit is themed on the Congo rainforests and is home to bongos, Congo buffalo and Lake Malawi cichlids.
Human monkeypox is a zoonotic viral disease that occurs primarily in remote villages of Central and West Africa in proximity to tropical rainforests where there is more frequent contact with infected animals.
They are a pantropical family, most diverse in the rainforests of Malesia, India, tropical Africa and tropical America but a few species extended to live in temperate regions.
The African golden cat ( Profelis aurata ) is a medium-sized wild cat distributed over the rainforests of West and Central Africa.
Simulating the rainforests of central Africa and opened in 1991, Gorilla Tropics has an enclosure for the eponymous species.
It is a resident breeder in most of sub-Saharan Africa outside the rainforests, although it has seasonal movements.
The fynbos heathlands of South Africa are second only to tropical rainforests in plant biodiversity with over 7, 000 species.
Both species are terrestrial, living on the ground of the rainforests and occasionally grasslands of Central Africa.
The White-throated Bee-eater is migratory, wintering in a completely different habitat in the equatorial rainforests of Africa from southern Senegal to Uganda.
It consists of trees or shrubs, occurring in the tropical rainforests of South America and Africa.
It is native to tropical western Africa, in Sierra Leone and Liberia, growing in tropical rainforests.

rainforests and Americas
As the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity.
As the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity.
As the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity.
As the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity.
As the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity.
As the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity.
As the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity.

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