Sentence examples for when rainforest from inspiring English sources
The "primitive-looking" Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko (Saltuarius eximius) measures 20cm and is believed to be a relic from a time when rainforest was more widespread in Australia.
The ground remaining when rainforest is cleared isn't very fertile, despite the luxuriant herbage of the forests themselves.
The divergence of L. delicata corresponds to a time when rainforest habitat in eastern Australia was in decline as a result of a drying climate, resulting in restriction of rainforest to a series of disjunct remnants that have been described as an 'archipelago of refugia' [ 1, 3, 17].
The mother and baby were reported by a local villager after escaping there when their rainforest in the Indonesian city of Ketapang, in Borneo, became engulfed in flames.
Much of this infrastructure is the result of cost-cutting and efficiency, two of the main considerations when certifying Rainforest farms.
When a rainforest is destroyed, do you think nobody hears the trees scream?
When that rainforest is cleared in Sumatra, it contributes to greenhouse gases and the orangutans are sold off to the black market or for bush meat.
When the rainforests disappear almost all of the wildlife – including the orangutans, tigers, sun bears, bearded pigs and other endangered species – and indigenous people go.
One of the main drivers of extinction is habitat loss that arises when tropical rainforests are converted to farms -- a trend that is escalating at a dramatic rate.
Jenny has been using fossilised leaves to reconstruct the ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide record from 330 to 260 million years ago, when large rainforests expanded throughout the tropics, leaving as their signature the world's coal resources.
"Today when the rainforests are threatened by deforestation driven by a shortsighted, profit-oriented economy, we must use the knowledge of what is good and our faith-driven action to protect and care for the rainforests and therefore the earth and all life".
