Category: Forests & Rainforests

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, VOL 1 1936

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In Congo, application of the Pygmies' traditional knowledge of the forest ecosystem will be used in the buffer zone around the Odzala National Park. Yes, the Givers of the fruits and nuts in your hands. Mollusks from many different groups live in the deep sea. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. But these hazards must be weighed against the advantage, in a habitat dominated by tall plants, of gaining access to the light without investing in lengthy stems.
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People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and

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At the beginning of this 30th anniversary of TRI’s special edition, we echo the words of TRI’s founder, Bill Burch, at the 2014 TRI symposium: we challenge both current and past fellows today to break free from the frameworks of traditional scientific research to create new responses to global problems that cross borders, traditional disciplines, and world cultures. Sinharaja Forest Reserve is one of the least disturbed and biologically unique lowland rain forests now remaining in Sri Lanka.
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Life Magazine May 15, 1964 -- Luci Baines Johnson

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It has designated individual campsites and a trail to keep people from trampling down habitats in the forests. This step was taken to ensure that they were the sole users of the forest trees. And the view from the city’s riverfront promenade is of hillsides full of rubber trees, punctuated only by cellular towers and housing developments. In the Nordic region, there is now more wood in the forests than at any time in the last hundred years.
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LIFE Magazine - November 22, 1963 (Volume 55, Number 21)

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Map depicts the world’s coral reefs which cover less than 1% of the ocean floor. Don't miss the forest because of a tree. Some a?©^ must be left isturbed and tfeis will mean more money is neeae^ to ensure -thaTthey"are-ad«)uately protected. ^^ Another possibility is the development of the land outside the rain forest. In this synthesis paper, we review the past and present state processes of change in African rainforests, and explore the challenges and opportunities for maintaining a viable future for these biomes.
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The National Geographic Magazine Vol. Lxxxi - January-June,

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In the 1970s Webb and Tracey completed a vegetation/ecological map of Queensland’s wet tropical areas as a guide for future development. The original rectangular-shaped kilns cracked due to expansion and contraction of heating processes (Fig. 6). Each contributor's name is added to a petition demanding action from policymakers to help protect our oceans. The data gathered is stored in the Water Resources Database CEDEN, accessible on line.
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Life Magazine, February 16, 1968

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The local longhouse had earlier been promised compensation, but it never arrived. Here you don’t get stuck in traffic, you just get stuck. Farmers could irrigate their fields with the water supplied from the newly built check dams. The Tragedy of the Dodo - dodo n., an extinct flightless bird, once a native of the island of Mauritius. Our own Forest Service clearcuts our National Forests and in their place plants tiny, identical tree seedlings-tree farms.
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Bushcraft Survival Skills for Beginners: Master The

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Some of the world's most promising oil and gas deposits lie deep in tropical rainforests. Site classification in a mixed hardwoord forest (Hallerbos, Belgium) with a homogeneous ground vegetation dominated by Hyacinthoides non-scripta (L.) Chouard ex. During this period TRI came into being and grew into its current status as the most important source of funding at Yale for student field studies in the tropics.
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LIFE Magazine - June 4, 1971

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Most people eke out a living from agriculture, and the population pressure on the land is immense, with 800 people per square kilometre (2,070 per square mile). Frankincense yield assessment and modeling in closed and grazed Boswellia papyrifera woodlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. One of the more interesting kinds of ants is the army ant. The United States, by comparison, contains about 17,000 plant species.
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Life Magazine, 4 September 1944

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Wilson has also helped inspire several generations through his beautifully descriptive prose of natural history and his life adventures (Naturalist, 1995; Journey to the Ants, 1994, with Holldobler; and others). You will live with a family in Panama City for approximately three weeks over the course of the semester. The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), which lives in riverine and mangrove forests in Borneo and feeds on only a few tree species, is very sensitive to any disturbance of its habitat.
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Life Magazine, April 6, 1959

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All living things fall into related groups and each organism has two scientific names. This led to the destruction of Kudremukh’s forests, wildlife and caused massive siltation of the rivers and reservoirs. The glacier-covered Andes form a tall spine that separates the wet west in Chile from the dry east in Argentina. Brain Images of normal and diseased brains can be found at the Whole Brain Atlas. EnvironMentors provides mentors to high school students from under-represented backgrounds for college degree programs in environmental and related science fields.
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