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    Tropical Forest: Tropical forest’s major features are equatorial and subequatorial regions. The climate revolves around typically high temperatures. Tropical rain forests tend to receive large amounts of rainfall ranging between 200-400cm. On the other hand, tropical dry forests receive 150-200cm of precipitation and has 6 to 7 months of no precipitation, also known as the dry season. (Urry, Pearson, 2017) Tropical forests are covered by large amounts of plant life that overlap each other, which

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    Destroying the Rain Forests: Human effects on Natures The rain forests are one of the most unique places on the planet earth. They are home to several thousand species of animals that live no where else in the world1. They are also one of the primary sources of oxygegn of the world. One cannot even begin to describe the sheer beauty of the rain forests. However, the interaction of man with these marvels of nature has had a negative effect. Through agriculture, societal development and the search

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    Gilgamesh, powerful, charismatic, and burly that he was hankering to make a title for himself, therefore commencing on a perilous journey into Cedar Forest. Gilgamesh presumed that if he executed the imposing Humbaba, the citizens of Uruk would gaze upon him with astonishment and awe. He yearned for his name to surpass his demise so that all would know the glorious king of Uruk who defeated the fearsome Humbaba. Gilgamesh blatantly disregards nature and its beauty in his conquest to slay the monstrous

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    the UNFF? UNFF is the United Nations Forum on Forests. The UN Economic and Social Council created the UNFF in 2000 with the goal to promote “the management, conservation and sustainable development of the world’s forests, and to strengthen long-term political commitment to this end” Basically, the idea was to get the worlds to agree to a long term plan to help preserve the world’s forests. Unfortunately, the first talks tanked and discussion of a forests convention really did not resume until UNFF5

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    • Forest Area: 33.7%-25.4% (1990-2015). The forest area has decreased due to increased deforestation and a risk of forest fires in Nepal. Finland has supported Nepal's forestry initiatives since the 80s, and it includes large scale preparation, plantation and implementation of Forestry Sector Master Plan (1988 -2011), support to Community Forestry and Leasehold Forestry Programs, Scientific Forest Management initiatives, National Forest Resource Inventories and others. Physiologically, the country

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    WHAT IS A FOREST? WHAT IS A WOODLAND? The definition of forest, mostly accepted as a group of trees of determined height, disposed in a determined density and covering some percentage of the soil, can be included in a broader definition of woodlands, often seen as a group of trees with more flexible thresholds for height, density and coverage. So, from now on and arbitrarily, when the word “woodland” is mentioned, “forests” are also included. Referring to the introduction and analyzing the Spanish

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    use forests for their lumber and other natural resources, it is important to not only be informed on managing it, but it is also important to know what goes on naturally inside the forests. One of these natural phenomena are actually the threats to the forests themselves and how they can be affected by them. Canada has one-tenth of the world's forest and about 50,000 hectares of this is untouched (Dearden and Mitchell, 2016, P.287). With that, it also has one-third of the world's boreal forest as

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    A Plague of the Forests Although deforestation is helping the development of many countries, cities and states, humans should work as hard as they possibly can to bring a halt to deforestation. This plague among the forests is causing harm not only to humans, with the drastic climate change, but this is also causing animals to become extinct. In some ways, deforestation makes our society come across as self-serving, by using the cleared lands for our own personal advantages, such as: construction

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    The contribution of forests resources to rural livelihoods has global significance. Cao (2012) estimated that about 1.6 billion rural people are dependent on forest resources. The live and livelihood of the people living in and around forests are critically and intricately linked to forest resources (Vasundhara, 1998). Forests seldom provide staple food, but they are the source of a variety of foods that supplement and complement what is obtained from agriculture (e.g. bush meat) and of a wide range

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    Would you ever let your four or five-year-old roam in the forest with twenty other kids and only one overseer? Would you ever let this serve as their Preschool and Kindergarten education? Surprisingly enough, this is a style of education that is sweeping through Scandinavian countries as well as other European countries. The concept is called a “Forest Kindergarten” and the purpose of this is to get young children more interested in learning. Also, they aim to allow kids to develop their motor skills

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