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Native Lowland Forests
The loss of lowland forest causes native plants and animals to become extinct. It is important to protect the remaining lowland forest from logging and development. Lowland forests can be found in some parts of the Central North Island, Taranaki, Coromandel, Northland and in Southland. The largest lowland forest is ...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Northeastern Congolian lowland forests (AT0124)
Special Features The Northwestern Congolian Lowland Forests ecoregion is globally outstanding because it contains large, intact blocks of lowland forest with complete assemblages of large mammals. These lowland forests occur from ...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Nigerian lowland forests (AT0123)
These forests are home to antelope, hippos, and much more. Special Features The Nigerian Lowland Forest ecoregion stretches ... semi-evergreen tropical high forest replaces the lowland forest. Guenons are monkeys with interestingly patterned and colored faces. The white-throated guenon of the Nigerian Lowland Forest has black and yellowish ...
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March 5, 2002: Our Closest Relatives Are Disappearing
By 2005, the country faces the loss of all lowland forest from Sumatra, and thus the extinction of the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, among many other ... West and Central Africa, hunting is an even greater threat than forest loss. There the bushmeat trade, consisting primarily of forest antelope, pigs, and primates, is worth over $1 billion a year ...
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ECO-PROS Biodiversity - Species
There is great concern regarding protecting this new species in their habitat as their forest home continues to be cut down and sold as timber. Their habitat is considered severely ... species discovered "just in time" A new species of bird has been discovered in a lowland forest on the remote island of Calayan in the northern Philippines. Named The Calayan Rail, it ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Hawaiian islands except the upper slopes of mountains and a few protected tracts of lowland forest are today dominated by introduced species. Other such regions of the world, including New Zealand ... inadvertent introduction of alien species is enormous in both states. The upshot is that in lowland Hawaii and southern Florida, large areas are now dominated by ecosystems comprised of species ...
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RE: Your action needed to protect the Bialowieza Forest
Bialowieza Forest Dear President Kaczynski, I urge your personal intervention to protect Europe's last natural lowland forest -- the Bialowieza Forest. In recent years protection for this ancient forest has deteriorated ... to public traffic, and each commercial management unit applies different designs for the forest. Only a small fragment has protection as a national park. It is an ...
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New Forest LIFE projects home page (Hosted by New Forest National Park Authority)
Forest LIFE projects home page (Hosted by New Forest National Park Authority) LIFE III webpages now available in three languages... The New Forest LIFE Projects The New Forest is an ancient forest, first ... Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. The New Forest supports a complex mosaic of wildlife habitats, formerly common in lowland Western Europe but now rare and fragmented. Located in ...
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ForestHarvest - Scottish woodlands and non-timber forest products
Scots pine and larch. Conifers (softwoods) account for some 82% of all Scotland's forest trees: Find out more about Conifer plantations Native woodlands Native woodlands (i.e. woods ... oakwoods (20%) Upland mixed ashwoods (8%) Wet woodlands (8%) Lowland mixed broadleaved woods (2%) External links Scotland's woodland resource Caledonian Forest Information Centre The hand of man Almost all the ...
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ForestHarvest - non-timber products from lowland broadleaved forests in Scotland
Scotland ForestHarvest :   non-timber forest products in Scotland HOME | SCOTTISH WOODLANDS | NTFP BENEFITS | HISTORICAL USE LINKS | SITE INDEX SCOTTISH WOODLANDS | NTFP BENEFITS | HISTORICAL USE LINKS | SITE INDEX Lowland ... dominated by oak (sometimes with silver birch). What to find in a lowland broadleaved wood Cep Beech Hazel Sweet chestnut Oak Ash Birch Nettle ...
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