Sentence examples for rainforest like from inspiring English sources

Or if Texaco -- and then Chevron -- just gambled that it could get away with treating a country's rainforest like a trash heap so it could further increase its profits while the local government looked the other way.

Maintained by The Nature Conservancy, Kamakou can only be accessed by four-wheel-drive vehicle and hiking tours only occur once a month, so plan ahead to visit what the Conservancy calls "a rainforest like no other".

A rainforest-like mist wafts across the vegetables.

Older sites and those adjacent to rainforest had a more rainforest-like beetle species composition (without significant interaction).

The use of revegetation techniques which lead to more rainforest-like structural conditions appears to be of over-riding importance in catalysing the rapid acquisition of volant rainforest beetle assemblages in the initial stages of restoration.

Mean values at around 20 years overlapped with the "poorest" rainforest reference sites, but projections suggest that >150 years are required to reach mean rainforest levels, and high variability among sites means that many were not on track towards ever achieving a rainforest-like bird community.

Lomas de Rompe, where the macaw was also reported, had rainforest-like gallery forest.

Within the museum are rainforest-like gardens and biospheres designed by Bruce Mau Design in conjunction with scientists from The Smithsonian Institution and the University of Panama.

Take A1A halfway between Miami Beach and Miami to Jungle Island, a small zoo open since 1936 that offers a slice of rainforest-like setting amid the city life.

By studying and comparing savannah- and rainforest-like regions, we provide a comprehensive ecological picture of MU, that is, a unified framework that reconciles the many contrasting findings observed during the last decade that could apply to a broader geographical area in the tropics and could help us understand the risk of BU for human populations.

But Mexico's rainforests, like those elsewhere in the tropics, continue to be degraded through farming, logging, ranching, and mining.