Save the rainforest!

The island features lush mountainous rainforests, home of many rare plant, animal, and bird species.

Rainforests should be preserved.

Tropical forests were cut down to expand the plantations.

Helping soybean farmers, palm oil planters, and cattle ranchers from Brazil to Southeast Asia to use land more productively, thereby reducing pressure on tropical forests, must be an integral part of the solution.

The result is massive loss of habitat and destruction of species, yielding a tiny economic benefit at a huge social cost.

The rainforests are disappearing at the rate of tens of thousands of hectares a day.

Tropical rainforests are located near the equator, where it's almost always warm and wet.

Their rainforests are a vast storehouse of biodiversity, and forests are major carbon sinks, reducing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The oceans, rainforests, and air can be kept safe through pooled investments in environmental protection.

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

Peatlands hold up to 28 times as much carbon as rainforests growing on mineral soil.

Likewise, in many parts of the world, tropical rainforest is being cleared for pasture land and food crops.

There are some 2.7 billion people in over 60 developing countries that are home to the world s tropical forests.

Not only are 12 of bird species already in danger of extinction, but more than twice that proportion have small geographical ranges (the key predictor of threat) and mostly live in habitats that are seriously threatened.

Tropical forests, for example, hold the majority of bird species and likely most other kinds of species too.

Its humid tropical forest stretches more than 23,000 hectares across volcanic mountain.

Some Shanghainese hold large banquets when they get married.

Toucans are tropical birds.

So let France and Germany enjoy their celebration in Versailles.

Her lush hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

By maintaining their rainforests, tropical countries provide an invaluable global service, one for which they have so far failed to be compensated.

Someone once asked me, Who is better or worse, is it Unilever or is it P G when it comes to their impact on rainforests in Indonesia?

Forests are being cut down.

Its rain forest, threatened by timber companies that have made deals with some of the militias, plays an important part in slowing global warming.

The tropical countries have several severe disadvantages.

In the Philippines, the practice is to name tropical depressions from their own naming convention when the depressions are within the country's area of responsibility.

During the dry season, farmers and plantations routinely clear peat and rainforest in Indonesia by burning it, creating a toxic haze that blankets the wider region.

Birds abound in the woods.

Tropical diseases remain killers to this day.

Following in the footsteps of Tajikistan, the Mayor's Office in the Uzbek capital Tashkent has banned 'lavish' weddings in the city.

When you look at an aerial photograph of housing developments spreading into prairies or logging operations obliterating rain forests, it's hard to avoid entertaining a frightening possibility we are parasites.

Rudi Putra initiated an online petition asking the Indonesian government to block the expansion of mining and palm oil activities in Aceh and to protect the country's remaining rainforest.

Lingonberries are abundant in the forests of Sweden.

Tom listened to the sounds of the forest.

If the tiger is conserved, the forest will be conserved, the conserved forest will conserve the tiger.

Malaria poses a unique challenge, owing in large part to Africa s mosquito species, which are especially adept at transmitting the disease.

Other tropical parasitic diseases imply similarly extraordinary burdens in Africa.

The hurricane also hit the Mayan rainforest, pounding about 917,000 hectares (2.3 million acres) of medium altitude rainforest and 270,000 hectares (667,000 acres) of low altitude rainforest.

Forests contain huge amounts of carbon.

Corneille Ewango is a hero of the Congo forest

Tripple monitor setup, photo by Les Howard

The deforestation is happening as we speak, he says.

He ran away in the direction of the wood.

You can't see the forest for the trees.