SÃO PAULO, Brazil Brazilil has made great strides in recent years in slowing Amazon deforestation and showing the world it was serious about protecting the mammoth rain forest.
With the disappearance of mammoths, birch forests, which absorb more sunlight than grasslands, expanded, leading to regional warming.
The two-million-acre Inyo National Forest surrounds Mammoth Lakes.
As human culture evolved, folk tales were the means by which our ancestors hoped to help their descendants to catch the woolly mammoth, escape the dark forest, and live happily ever after.
Many placental forms of giant size, such as the sabre-toothed cat, giant ground sloths, and woolly mammoths, inhabited the forests and the plains in the Pliocene (5.3 million to 1.8 million years ago).
They indicate, by comparison with pollen data already collected, the presence of forest patches in a mammoth steppe landscape, which might have influenced the collecting behavior of Epigravettian populations.
Yayorin (www.yayorin.org) is an Indonesian-based conservation project with the mammoth task of teaching its people about conserving the forest and its creatures, with the chief aim being saving existing populations of orangutans.
Tom Wakeford has a good eye for striking facts and describes "one mammoth fungus that spreads its tentacles under 15 hectares of virgin forest in Montana, weighs one hundred metric tons and is more than one thousand years old".
Savanna elephants and wooly mammoths have very low diversity, whereas the genetic diversity of forest elephants is very high; Asian elephants fall in the middle.
The Spring Fling: A Forest Carnival Thursday 3 March, 7pm-3am at Studio 24, £7 A mammoth night of madcap and gleeful dance.
