Temperate rainforest

The Monkey and the Crocodile A monkey named Raktamukha lived on a Jamun tree in the dense forests of India. The monkey was happy in his life spending most of the time jumping around on trees. This Jamun tree was on banks of a river which was home to a crocodile named Karalamukha. Karalmukha used to come on the banks and gradually he and the monkey became very good friends. Few days past, and their friendship grew stronger. Raktmukha used to pluck fruits from the tree and used to give it to…

The effectiveness of Country park and special areas in Hong Kong Hong Kong is a small international city consists of 3 parts: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. Despite being only a small place, a total of 24 country park and 22 special areas have been designated for the purposes of nature conservation. (Afcd.gov.hk, 2015) These country parks and special areas comprise hills, forest land, reservoirs and coast in all parts of Hong Kong, cover a total area of 44,300 hectares,…

INTRODUCTION Orangutans, who are closest to our specie of homo sapiens¸ alongside the chimpanzees, gorillas and the other great apes – are primarily and wildly native to the forests and islands of Indonesia and Malaysia. Their chances of survival in modern day is critically endangered by both human causes (primarily) and natural causes (most of which chiefly arises out of human causes as well). The former includes aspects like deforestation, palm oil plantation and illegal logging; whereas the…

Mangroves are the typical coastal ecosystems stand out as a distinct forest type at the interface between terrestrial, estuarine, and near-shore marine ecosystems, where sea water and fresh water mixes and creates the favorable salinity condition for the mangrove species to grow. Mangroves have special adaptability to grow in such harsh environment; also, it provides massive ecosystem services to the coastal communities (Yusuke et al, 2012). However, mangrove species are increasingly threatened…

underlying causes can also be given such as state policies, agricultural subsidies, tax breaks timber concessions and global economics factors. Although, in Africa, Asia and South America, rainforests are considered as home for a huge number of people, local and national governments continue to develop the rainforests exploitation. Finally, another factor can be named: the access to technology. Indeed, using inefficient technology increases collateral damage in the deforestation’s vicinity,…

printed, our land cannot be created once it’s gone” -Penan Malaysia. This quote is saying that there are people and other living things who live in the rainforest. 12,000 years ago the Native Amazonians came into the rainforest and claimed it as their home. They have lived there ever since and are not about to stop living in the rainforest simply because the Loggers want to take down trees. The Loggers want to turn trees into lumber for things such as houses and buildings. The worst…

Infestation levels of leaf mining fly on Jacaranda trees compared to infestation levels on indigenous Bush Willow trees. By Cian MacFie Hyde Park High School Table of Contents Introduction Alien Invasive plant species are a large threat to ecosystems all over the world today and have many negative consequences for biodiversity (van Wilgen et al. 2011). Thousands of alien invasive plants have been introduced into South Africa with some becoming…

As I watch them go I wonder why are the destroying them, there life and we need them, But when they are dieing there gone and we can’t do anything. Pine beetles have also killed over 80% of our pine trees. But how, today I will be explaining why are pine beetles such a big problem, what can we do about future damage and damage that the have already done. How are pine beetles connected to climate change and forest fires? Pine beetles are a big problem because they’re causing big forest fires…

Based on Alcorn argument, he said that “ I would like to challenge preconceptions about conservation and conservation decision making by sketching a heuristic contrast between Big Conservation and Little Conservation (see Alcorn 1995, 13-30)” (Brosius, Tsing & Zerner, 2005). In Alcorn argument on this book which is “the first decision makers we think of are governments and international conservation organizations” (Brosius, Tsing & Zerner, 2005). We don’t agree with Alcorn argument. Based on our…

On Nov 30 when diplomats met in Paris for the climate talks many of them will be talking on how to lower the emissions from coal, oil and natural gas. Only a few will be arguing about the carbon-storing forests the Amazon and the Congo. It appears that the destruction of trees and vegetation is releasing more CO2 than transportation. When it comes to the CO2 being sucked up the Amazon easily takes up a quarter of that but with that being said the storage amount has dropped a third or more since…