Sentences with phrase «rainforest area of»

Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center is actually located in the rainforest area of the Park.

Manuel Antonia National Park — Listed by Forbes as one of the world's 12 most beautiful national parks, the protected coastal rainforest area of Manuel Antonio on Costa Rica's Pacific Coast is a favorite destination on Caravan's Costa Rica eco tour.

Should you split your Belize vacation between the jungle and the beach, or just take day trips to the jungle and rainforest areas of Belize to check out the Mayan ruins, do some caving, jungle hiking, maybe some jungle horseback riding or jungle river canoeing?

Comfort, Quality and Friendly Service Lalor Lodge is our boutique guesthouse on the Great Ocean Road, just a few minutes from the township of Apollo Bay on the brink of the lush rainforest areas of the Otways.

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Tomorrow, Ecuadorian state oil company Petroamazonas will produce the first barrel of commercial crude from the ITT (Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini) fields that lie beneath Yasuní National Park, an area that some scientists have called the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth.

Lying on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, the one - time backwater was transformed by an economic boom as the winding down of the conflict and a spike in commodity prices drew oil companies and multinational agricultural interests to areas that were previously off limits.

«According to the World Wildlife Fund, an area the equivalent size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour to make way for palm oil production.

The report also identifies some areas of weaker performance, which Rainforest Alliance and SAN members will work to address through enhanced farmer training and revisions to the SAN Standard.

With 90 percent of the world's forests outside of protected areas, the Rainforest Alliance works to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land - use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

The Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ seal is awarded to farms that have met the environmental, social and economic standards of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), a coalition of local conservation organizations that first set the standard for sustainable farming in rainforest areas in the eaRainforest Alliance Certified ™ seal is awarded to farms that have met the environmental, social and economic standards of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), a coalition of local conservation organizations that first set the standard for sustainable farming in rainforest areas in the earainforest areas in the early 1990s.

Speaking of Rainforest Alliance, there was this graph breaking down certified area by country.

It is Rainforest Alliance certified (100 % of the beans), and comes from the the area near the southern town of Timaná in the Huila department (coordinates 1.983, - 75.95).

If you have Caribou Coffee in your area it's a decent choice, as they have a lot of Rainforest Alliance certified coffee.

The Rainforest Alliance worked closely with indigenous communities and Ecuador's Ministry of Environment to develop a new model of sustainable, community - based tourism in protected areas in the Amazon.

Half the world's tropical rainforests are gone, and large areas of grasslands once open to wildlife are now fenced in for livestock

The new study focused on two areas that are now losing trees: western North America, which is suffering from drought, heat and beetle infestations that span from the southwestern U.S. to Alaska, and the Amazon rainforest, which has been subject to decades of intense human development.

In 2010, for example, one - fifth of the global land area experienced extreme maximum temperature anomalies that coincided with heat waves and droughts in Canada, the United States, Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China and unprecedented droughts in tropical rainforests.

But why would these plants, which dwell in the shadows of rainforests in the Americas, limit the leaf area they need to suck up sunshine?

There are whole areas — the rainforest, for example — that have to be protected for the animals and for the whole of the climate of the planet.

Now a team of Stanford researchers has developed a computer model that can help understand the ways that activities such as clear - cutting and welfare programs might impact the future of the land and the people who live inside protected areas of the rainforest.

Evicted at gunpoint from the vast Bolivian national park she helped set up, Rosa Maria Ruiz is still battling to protect threatened areas of rainforest

But the findings of a study in a deforested area of Amazonian rainforest suggest that leaf - cutting ants are not all bad.

The researchers surveyed a large area in the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) site, a region of rainforest in Malaysian Borneo.

The rainforests of south - east Asia are home to a rich variety of gliding animals — but most of them evolved only after tall tropical trees began to dominate the area

Sri Lanka, New Caledonia and the rainforests of Queensland (Australia) can also be added to this list of plagued areas.

Conventional analysis of satellite data can only detect clear - cut and burned areas, and has been unable to distinguish selective logging hidden by the rainforest's dense canopy.

«The discovery of Shell indicates a clear path toward more intensive use of already planted lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.

A team of more than 30 trained researchers and park officials looked for signs of bears in a variety of habitats in the Machu Picchu protected area, ranging from Andean rainforest to montane grasslands.

Ecologically sensitive regions are the Arctic tundra, parts of the boreal forest belt, the tropical rainforests, alpine regions worldwide, steppe and prairie regions of central Asia and North and South America, forests in South America and eastern areas of Australia.

The golden - crowned manakin lives in an area of the south - central Amazon Rainforest that is approximately 200 sq. km and is largely separated from areas where snow - capped and opal - crowned live by wide rivers that the birds are reluctant to cross.

«We have found ecologically sensitive regions with amplified responses to climate variability in the Arctic tundra, parts of the boreal forest belt, the tropical rainforest, alpine regions worldwide, steppe and prairie regions of central Asia and North and South America, forests in South America, and eastern areas of Australia,» says Seddon.

During drought years, these small fires can quickly spread to large areas of the rainforest.

The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world, spanning an area that is 25 times the size of the UK.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

«We find ecologically sensitive regions with amplified responses to climate variability in the Arctic tundra, parts of the boreal forest belt, the tropical rainforest, alpine regions worldwide, steppe and prairie regions of central Asia and North and South America, the Caatinga deciduous forest in eastern South America, and eastern areas of Australia,» the researchers report.

In the New World, CL is predicted to occur primarily within the Amazon basin and other areas of rainforest.

The large - scale production of palm crops in these areas has also driven native people from their homes and destroyed their sources of income (as many of them rely on the rainforest for food or their livelihoods.

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It gradually widens and picks up speed before entering a 75 mile long canyon of impassable rapids, after which it enters an area of tropical rainforest known as Lualaba or Upper Congo.

The birds call the woodlands and tropical rainforests of these areas home.

8 Night Itinerary - Explore areas of rainforest rarely visited and seek out life in the wilderness, in some of the most untouched areas.

I loved the solitude and tranquility of daintree rainforest area.

The official citation pays tribute to the island's «exceptional natural beauty» and refers to «over 250 km of sandy beaches with long, uninterrupted sweeps of ocean beach, with more than 40 km of strikingly coloured sand cliffs, as well as spectacular dune blowouts and ocean surf beaches; tall rainforests growing on low nutrient sands; perched dune lakes including both clear «white water» lakes and dark «black water» lakes; banksia woodlands, heath, patterned swampy fens and sheltered mangrove areas in a spectacular «mosaic landscape.»

Our kayak tours also cross the Strait to the Central Coast of British Columbia, an area that lies in the southern portion of the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the last great wildlife refuges in North America.

Most of our exclusive Port Douglas holiday homes have very private entrances and once you are inside the home and you walk into the main living areas and onto the outdoor terrace or verandah's you are met with magnificent views that draw your eyes focus over the rainforest clad mountains, the Port Douglas yacht club and Marina Mirage, the Port Douglas beaches and coastline.

Turning into the sheltered waters of the Archipelago, we can explore this mystical area and its First Nations sites, hidden bays, and rich rainforest.

Along the way you'll stop and soak up the magic of the north Queensland rainforest and learn about the unique area.

Adjacent to the property is a rainforest area, which is home to many different species of birds and butterflies.

The expansive set of rooms includes a separate bedroom and lounge, two elegant marbled bathrooms with rainforest shower and separate large deep sunken bathtub island, walk - in closet with private dressing room plus a luxuriously designed dining area.

Located in a spectacular coastal area in far North Queensland, the world famous 4 Mile Beach and the World Heritage sites of the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest at your door step, there isn't a more perfect place to visit.