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ECO-PROS - Endangered Species
Home page) Cloud Forests Fading in the Mist, Their Treasures Little Known Evergreen mountain forests provide vastly important functions by capturing and filtering water that feeds rivers systems, and they are huge storehouses of biodiversity - much of which we know nothing about. Biologists warn cloud forests ...
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Fresh Water - A Precious Resource
... a watershed, from the fresh water captured in snow and ice, the moisture of the "cloud forests," the movement of fresh water downhill from rivulets and springs into streams, rivers and groundwater ...
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Ambae, Vanuatu - island travel, accommodation, cloud forest, volcano, lakes, walk, camp
Ambae, Vanuatu - island travel, accommodation, cloud forest, volcano, lakes, walk, camp Ambae, the original Bali Hai Ambae inspired James Michener's ... level. It's Vanuatu's second highest island with crater lakes on the summit and cloud forests on the upper slopes. East Ambae is wet and the west is a rain-shadow ...
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DECOIN: The Struggle to Save Intag's Forests And Communities from Mitsubishi
The forests are primary cloud forests, belonging to one of earth’s great biotic regions- the Choco Floristic Province. Being on the western slopes of the Western Andes, these magnificent forests ... forests and watersheds- the first of these community forests reserves has been established at the site of the ex mining camp, encompassing approximately 60 hectares of primary and secondary cloud forests ...
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Tropical forests
Tropical forests include lowland rain forests with annual rainfall over 2000 mm, higher altitude cloud forests and tropical dry, deciduous forests, which have a pronounced wet ... ); Indo-China (Vietnam; West Africa (Sapo National Park); Ecuadorian Choco; dry and lowland forests of Mesoamerica, and the Atlantic forest of South America. Clearance and burning of ...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions -- East African montane forests (AT0108)
East African montane forests (AT0108) Afrotropics > Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests > East African montane forests (AT0108) Mt. Meru, Tanzania Photograph by David Olson Eastern Africa: southern Sudan, central ... human-caused fire are believed to have destroyed forest habitats, such as the cloud forests that have been lost on Mount Kilimanjaro. For more information on this ecoregion, ...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Guinean montane forests (AT0114)
(AT0114) Afrotropics > Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests > Guinean montane forests (AT0114) Fougoumba, Fouta Djallon, Guinea Photograph by Rebecca Ham West Africa: Scattered ... to support lowland forests, mid-altitudes often contain cloud forests, and the highest elevations are covered in grasslands intermixed with bamboo thickets, wetlands, and gallery forests. In ...
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WWF - Problems: Climate change
In focus Mediterranean and tropical montane cloud forests In the Mediterranean, summers have become hotter, ... which in summer dries out and becomes fuel for fires. Observations suggest that tropical montane cloud forests are also highly at risk due to fewer, higher clouds and warmer temperatures, with ...
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WWF - Types of Forests
FAQ search Home > About WWF > What We Do > Forests > About Forests > Types of Forests About Forests Importance of Forests Forest conservation Types of Forests Types of Forests Classification The type of forest depends ... of the long winters, whereas the hardwoods are deciduous. Montane forests These are also known as cloud forests because they receive most of their precipitation from the mist or ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Tropical Ecology/Cloud and Montane
Rate It Cloud Forests http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/cf/ (1 vote) Strybing Arboretum Society allows you to learn about biodiversity conservation, tropical cloud forests, and our expeditions to ... Monteverde, Costa Rica cloud forest Added: Jan. 17, 2002 | Rate It Santa Lucía http://www.santa-lucia.org/ community-based conservation organization located in the cloud forests of northwestern ...
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