Sentences with phrase «in rain forests»

He specializes in documenting earth's biodiversity in the rain forests and coral reefs, especially focusing on endangered species and threatened habitats around the world.

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Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America.

Located in the rain forests of the Peruvian Amazon, this project is comprised of approximately 660,000 acres of forest.

Channel - billed toucans are important seed dispersers in rain forests.

«My favorite was Tortuguero, seeing the Howler Monkeys, the boat rides in the rain forests, basically the whole tour.

Nandini Bali Resort & Spa beautifuly located in the rain forests of central Ubud,...

Our journey begins in the rain forests of beautiful Costa Rica.

Nandini Bali Resort & Spa beautifuly located in the rain forests of central Ubud, close to the remarkable town of Ubud which for more than a century has been the islands cultural center for art, music and dance.

Some of the adventures include nighttime walks in the rain forests, bird watching in Drake's Bay area and Corcovado National Park, horseback riding along the pristine shores, canopy tours and zip lining excursions in the forests, snorkeling adventure in Cano Island and dolphin and whale watching tours in Drake's Bay.

Like the Spider Monkey, these guys can be found in the rain forests, cloud forests, and tropical dry forests.

What it lacks in rain forests and tropical jungles is offset with beautiful sandy beaches and warmer weather.

(The latex of the rare sapodilla tree, chicle is found only in rain forests.)

She's had amazing experiences photographing wildlife in rain forests and swamps; her artwork has taken a distinct «green» turn, a change that has been exciting for Kitty.

Caveman Coffee Co. believes in sustaining our environment and preserving the life in our rain forests.

Polytheism is prevalent among tribes in the Amazon basin (the Sherenti, Mundurucu, and Tapirape) and in the rain forests of Africa (the Ndorobo), New Guinea (the Keraki and Ulawans), and Southeast Asia (the Iban of Borneo and the Mnong Gar and Lolo of Vietnam).

From these various anthropological approaches, a basic dichotomy has emerged between two types of societies from very different ecosystems: societies born in rain forests and those that thrive in deserts.

According to the analysis, new climates would be most dramatic in the rain forests of the Amazon and Indonesia, but would extend as far toward the poles as the American southeast.

Monkeypox, a cousin of smallpox previously found only in the rain forests of central Africa and West Africa, made a surprise appearance in the Midwest in May.

The coat, copied after Ahmed's, is made of nylon - reinforced whipcord, the same fabric worn by timber cruisers in the rain forests of the Pacific Northwest.

However, when conservationists try to oppose polluters and developers solely with pragmatic arguments about the value to human welfare of, for example, gene pools in rain forests, they have been maneuvered into fighting on the same ground as their opponents.

> They have found tribes in rain forests, that think it is pleasing to their god, to collect heads.

For both sexes there is Terence McKenna's promise of an «Archaic Revival» in which human consciousness and the world will be psychedelically transformed by way of the magic mushrooms McKenna discovered in the rain forests of the Amazon.

What does an exotic bird with a colorful beak sitting on a branch in the rain forest look like to you?

If those in the rain forest were given the image of God they have opportunity if they have not the image of God they are a blank slate as to soul i.e. they do not have capacity to love

Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest.

Efficiency is one of the reasons that clearing rain forests is shortsighted: The nutrient cycles in rain forest ecosystems are so tight that the soil is usually very poor for farming.

Deep in the rain forest, where people are cut off from transportation and cellular networks, mortality is the highest, access to health care is the most limited and quality of care is the worst.

«And when you completely alter something as basic as the trees, the other species that live in the rain forest will surely be affected too.»

«There's a place in the south,» he says, «where you can stand with one foot in the rain forest being sucked on by land leeches and the other foot in a spiny thicket with baobab trees and a 12 - month dry season.»

Despite the often lush appearance of the terrain, the soil in a rain forest is typically nutrient - poor compared with, say, the soil of the American Midwest, which is rich enough to support most of our farming.

But what he remembers most, and the reason he claims he has never set foot in the rain forest again, was the stench.

The third and fourth calls were muted, seeming to come from deep in the rain forest as the animal moved away.

And in rain forest cultures, related women tend to form the core of a community for a lifetime, rather than being shipped off to serve the expediency of marriage making.

Even though, yes, some of us do spend our afternoons in the rain forest gyrating around a bonfire with a gourd strapped to our genitals while others of us are on the Internet researching new ways of preparing crème brûlée, these differences — runs the theory — are but superficial.

And Oren, who has risked his scientific reputation because he has come to believe the stories of hunters and rubber tappers and others in the rain forest who say the mapinguari is quite real, remains cautiously optimistic.

Finally, desert cultures tend to teach their children to be modest about nudity at an earlier age than in rain forest cultures and have more severe strictures against premarital sex.

Working in far - flung camps along rivers or in the rain forest, laborers mix sediment with mercury — often using their hands and feet — to amalgamate the gold.

Experience Eco-Travel at an amazing biodynamic Lodge in the rain forest.

Pristine petals conjure a luxuriant flower that blooms deep in the rain forest.

I live in a rain forest minus the forest.

By feasting on insects, the bats help keep pest populations under control in the rain forest.

At a National park, we went on a canopy walk in the rain forest on shaky rope bridges.

«In a rain forest is a flower and flowers can only grow when the rain drops,» he wrote.

In the first pages, for example, he aggressively attempts to split open a particularly well - guarded seed he gathered in the rain forest.

They're the most plentiful creatures in the rain forest, not just in numbers but in biomass.

The wave also sweeps a sailing ship carrying Daphne, an English girl, up onto the island and deposits it in the rain forest, where Mau finds her.

He has traveled to Ecuador, gone white water rafting in the rain forest and visited the Galapagos Islands.

Confident and politically committed — «Sometimes people bring in these beautiful cockatoos and I just think, Oh, you should be in a rain forest» — Iglesias received a prestigious scholarship in high school to work in Cornell's vet college for the summer.

Thought to have originated in the rain forest of Central Africa in what is now Zaire and the Sudan, but the Basenji was first depicted on the tombs of ancient Egypt.