Sentences with phrase «tracts of rain forest»

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They pollinate plants, including 80 percent of the world's 94 major food crops, as well as vast tracts of tropical rain forest.

The Corcovado National Park is the largest tract of virgin rain forest in Costa Rica and covers more than half of the Osa Peninsula.

These trucks just came over by barge from the north side of the river; the south side borders the Yasunì National Park, an important UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the largest tract of tropical rain forest in Ecuador.

For example, it warned that large tracts of the Amazon rain forest might be wiped out by global warming because they are extremely susceptible to even modest decreases in rainfall.