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Global 200 Ecoregions: Terrestrial
Forests Indo-Malayan Southwestern Ghats Moist Forests Sri Lanka Moist Forests Northern Indochina Subtropical Moist Forests Southeast China-Hainan Moist Forests Taiwan Montane Forests Annamite Range Moist Forests Sumatran Islands Lowland and Montane Forests Philippines Moist Forests Palawan Moist Forests ...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions: Indo-Malayan
Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests Sri Lanka lowland rain forests Sri Lanka montane rain forests Sulu Archipelago rain forests Sumatran freshwater swamp forests Sumatran lowland rain forests Sumatran montane rain forests Sumatran peat swamp forests Sundaland heath forests Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests ...
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IWMI : Ruhuna-Walawe Sri Lanka
Ruhuna-Walawe Sri Lanka Menu provided by Milonic Benchmark Basins Ruhunu-Walawe Basin, Sri Lanka Area 5,500 km2  Location The Ruhuna basins in southern Sri Lanka, as defined by IWMI, encompass three of the ... inhabit the area. Land uses The uplands are thinly populated with sub-montane wet evergreen forests, grasslands and tea estates. The non-irrigated area in the lower basin is characterized by ...
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Population Action International : Why Population Growth Matters to the Future of Forests
Future of Forests May 1, 2000 The world's forests provide goods and services essential to human and planetary well-being. But forests are ... it was in 1960. Yet we not only need more forests, we need forests more than ever before–to protect the world's ... forests has doubled since 1960, accounting for 5 million to 6 million hectares of forest loss each year, an area nearly the size of Sri Lanka ...
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WWF - List of Ecoregions
Forests - Australia (18) New Caledonia Moist Forests - New Caledonia (France) (19) Lord Howe-Norfolk Islands Forests - Australia Indo-Malayan (20) Southwestern Ghats Moist Forests - India (21) Sri Lankan Moist Forests - Sri Lanka (22) Northern Indochina Subtropical Moist Forests ...
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WWF - Sri Lankan Moist Forests - A Global Ecoregion
Sri Lanka montane rain forests; Sri Lanka lowland rain forests. The southwest corner of Sri Lanka has a rainforest climate, with up to 5,000 millimeters of rain annually. Sri Lanka's ... found only in these forests are Sri Lankan wood pigeon (Columba torringtoni), Green-billed coucal (Centropus chlororhyncus), Ceylon magpie (Urocissa ornata), Sri Lanka grey-hornbill (Ocyceros gingalensis ...
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Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. Chapter 3 FORESTS SHRINKING climate ecosystem global economy carbon emissions dust storm Dust Bowl overgrazing oceanic fisheries forests deforestation Brazil China Amazon Amazonian rainforest land degradati
The remaining forests are rather evenly divided between tropical and subtropical forests in developing countries and temperate/boreal forests in industrial countries.23 Deforestation ... have total or partial bans on logging in primary forests, including Cambodia, China, India, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Additionally, about 3 million square ...
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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Chapter 5. Natural Systems under stress shrinking forests deforestation losing soil erosion deteriorating rangelands advancing deserts desertification collapsing fisheries internati
World forest loss ... that now have total or partial bans on logging in primary forests are China, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Unfortunately, all too often a ban in ...
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OneWorld.net / In depth / Environment / Forests
Biodiversity Climate change Conservation Environmental activism Forests Genetics Nuclear Issues Oceans Pollution Renewable energy Rivers Soils Full Coverage: Forests February 2008 If you wish ... [Environmental activism] [Forests] [Biodiversity] South Asia nations to work together on wildlife trade 11.02.2008 Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka ...
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Sri Lanka
Research Centre (NSRC) in Sri Lanka, have demonstrated that these temple forests are, in many areas, also the last refuge for native biodiversity. The Temple Forest Program of Sri Lanka began in 1996 with the ... forest. This forest may possibly be one of the few examples of the forests of the second peneplain of Sri Lanka. The chief Incumbent today is Rev. Ambanwella Chanda Wimala Thera. Five very ...
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