Sentences with phrase «rainforest as»

Meet Marina Silva — she wants to be Brazil's Green new president.It's no surprise that environmental issues are at the heart of Silva's campaign; Born in 1958, she grew up alongside rubber tappers in the Amazon rainforest as one of eleven children.

It's incredible to see how these knowledgeable women use the rainforest as their «living pharmacy,» and how the information about each plant doesn't change from place to place, despite its lack of formal categorization.

I always thought that if I won the lottery, I would buy as much rainforest as I could afford to keep it safe from harm.

So I was excited to see the Amazon rainforest as one of the core case studies in the textbook for this new OCR spec.

The analysis refutes previous work that predicted the catastrophic loss of the Amazon rainforest as one of the more startling potential outcomes of climate change.

Traders could then make a healthy profit from buying and selling rainforest as a new asset class.

Modern man sees the rainforest as a tremendous resource and at the same time we are in the process of depleting it.

Guatemala is rich in culture, history and natural beauty and like Belize offers Caribbean beaches and tropical rainforest as well as colourful market towns and volcanic peaks.

Power down the awesome grade four Tully River, glimpsing the stunning surroundings of the World Heritage Rainforest as you whizz by!

You truly get to know the Daintree Rainforest as you fall asleep amidst the rain, the bugs, and the hot, humid air.

Pass by rainforest as you travel past Lake Brunner to Otira and Arthurs Pass.

The master suite windows offer a 90 - degree view of the rainforest as we travel deep into the Amazon.

Walk among gods through stunning botanic gardens and rainforest as you find yourself in an ancient labyrinth and unwind along the Damanhur Spiral.

Chabil Mar also offers comprehensive jungle and sea vacations for couples wanting to mix the best elements of the reef and rainforest as well as Belize and Guatemala vacation packages to continue your fun Central American vacation.

The dining room is yet another place to observe the rainforest as you're treated to some of the best examples of Peruvian cuisine, itself ranked as one of the world's finest.

The regular suites are fitted with movie - screen size windows, which are great for observing the rainforest as you relax on your very comfortable king size beds fitted with the finest Peruvian cotton linen.

Take in breathtaking views of Jamaica's rainforest as you smoothly ascend to the top of the famous Mystic Mountain.

You will also have a opportunity to walk through lush rainforest as your guide points out many native tropical plants, such as red ginger and ginseng.

Later, you will pass through lush rainforest as your guide points out many native tropical plants, such as red ginger and ginseng.

If you would like to enjoy El Yunque to the max, there are some nice small inns in the heart of the rainforest as well as many resorts and hotels on the east region of Puerto Rico.

Skydiving at Mission Beach is a unique opportunity to witness the spectacular reef and the surrounding picturesque beaches and rainforest as you fly from 4570 metres (15,000 feet) above.

we were amazed at the wildlife and the rainforest as well as the near empty beaches

Our nature guide will be with us during the jungle activities and explain the wonders of the rainforest as well as the complex and interesting eco-systems.

Appreciate the wonders of the Peñas Blancas River and the surrounding rainforest as you glide silently taking photos of monkeys, sloths, iguanas, caimans and numerous tropical birds.

We travel through pockets of temperate rainforest as well as National Parks and Forestry Land.

It takes four to five days return and passes buttongrass plains, glacial valleys and rainforest as you make your way to Lake Tahune.

In the evenings you can enjoy a cold beer or wine siting back on the outdoor deck under the canopy of the rainforest as you reflect on your day, or mingle with fellow travellers.

Embark on a scenic train journey through sugar cane country and rainforest as we head north to Cairns.

Take in the amazing views of waterfalls and rainforest as you float your way down Behana Gorge, walk over huge boulders and ride the rapids!

It takes us beyond the famous Daintree Tea Plantation, past spectacular mountains and through spectacular World Heritage Rainforest as we pass Cape Tribulation and continue along the 4WD Bloomfield Track through to pristine Emmagen Creek.

The aim is for the children to understand the rainforest as an environment and its important to us and the wider world.

Pretty soon, Brody, playing a soldier of fortune named Royce, discovers other people have been dropped into the rainforest as well.

Publicity - hungry Paddy Power, who provoked outrage when claiming to have deforested part of the Amazonian rainforest as a marketing stunt at the World Cup, have paid out # 400,000 to those lucky punters who backed the Blues.

I wouldn't expect Yemen to necessarily qualify for Rainforest Alliance Certification since it doesn't really have rainforests as we would define it, yet it grows coffee.

It's done so with its leatherwood honey, a distinctive, Tasmania - only food that relies on the island's cool temperate rainforests as forage for its bees and, in those forests, it relies on only one species.

As late as the 1970s, anthropologists described rainforests as a «counterfeit paradise,» arguing that their soil lacked the nutrients to sustain agriculture or complex human societies.

Fraser Island is a popular destination, being the world's largest sand island and completely surrounded by magical rainforests as old as time.

Travel from spectacular Queenstown to the garden city of Christchurch and experience famous West Coast hospitality, high snow topped mountains, glaciers and awesome rainforests as you enjoy one of the world's top five cycling journeys.

But ironically, given # 6 on our list, the biggest human rights abuses have come from those claiming to be preserving the rainforests as a way to sequester carbon.

I shouldn't have to belabor common geographical facts like tropical deserts having higher mean annual temperatures than tropical rainforests as that's introductory level geography.

Not exact matches

Cultures as diverse as the Himba in the Namibian plains and the Berinmo in the lush rainforests of Papua New Guinea employ such five term systems.

As meat demand soars, virgin rainforest gets razed to grow feed, and freshwater sources are diverted from drought - prone regions.

However, Rainforest QA has now released their mobile app testing platform («Quality Assurance as a Service»), along with an ebook about scaling mobile testing itself, using their crop of over 50,000 crowdsourced testers to zero in on specific issues (and they get into this in detail in a recent eBook).

Many of Bolivia's economic weaknesses relate to its extraordinary geographical situation as a landlocked [5] Andean country divided between the extreme highlands (4,000 meters) and tropical rainforest lowlands.

Now nature is «packaged and commodified» for Westerners who rush to buy aromatherapy oils for relaxation, as well as CDs that bring the sounds of waterfalls and rainforests into the comfort of our living rooms.

I remember asking a question as a young person about somebody in a remote rainforest.

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.

For example, who really notices that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by 25 per cent since the middle of the nineteenth century (as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, along with destruction of rainforests)?

You will realize that, had you been born in Afghanistan, you would be every bit as certain that Allah is the true God, and if you were born to an indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest, you would be just as certain that the tree gods were true.

Using god for science is wrong.Materials be came present after the big bang as atoms.Eventually processes started which created rock.Our planet came together with many materials, such as gold, platinum and others.When a rainforest dies when it dries up, gets buried and compresses to form coal.Oil is made from sea organisms that die and get buried.The brain uses algorithms to process information.God does not need to be included.