Sentence examples for patch of rainforest from inspiring English sources

Fewer steps help provide clean water in South Africa or save a patch of rainforest.

Just 25 Hainan gibbons, Nomascus hainanus, are left in a small patch of rainforest on Hainan island in south China, where they live in three family groups and sing together at dawn.

Scientists are hailing the discovery of a patch of rainforest in northern Mozambique as one of the most significant finds in years.

In 2011, Luis Mazariegos, a retired Colombian businessman, uploaded a picture of a striking red-and-black frog, found on the patch of rainforest land that he had recently bought.

And as global warming increases, even the small patches of rainforest that have technically been preserved are doomed.

But ever since the engineers in Brasília rolled out the blueprints for damming the Xingu two decades ago, the project has attracted powerful opposition.Environmental groups and river dwellers say Belo Monte will flood vast patches of rainforest while desiccating others.

The Forest Region contains several extensive patches of rainforest, with teak, mahogany, and ebony trees; agriculture, however, has diminished the forests and resulted in a shift largely toward open savanna.

They had their Waterloo moment at Eurovision in 1974 before defying their destiny as one-hit wonders with a series of records that became hits across the globe – you imagine even those people camped out in obscure patches of rainforest still believing they were fighting the second world war owned a copy of Arrival.

And, most ambitious of all, scientists are planning to bathe patches of rainforest in extra CO2 and measure their response.

His team of scientists spent 7 years combing the few remaining patches of rainforest in Ghana and the Ivory Coast and even offered money to locals to lead them to see or hear a Miss Waldron's.

Where orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees languish in ever-shrinking patches of rainforest, he points out, humans now make up more than seven times the biomass of all other wild mammals combined.