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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The welfare of animal life in the forests is also addressed with guidelines to protect their food sources and habitats.
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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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The forest animals pricked up their ears and twitched their noses tying to catch a scent or two from the warm afternoon breeze.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Seeing is not necessarily believing under the murky forest canopy so the animals have evolved and developed the other senses such as hearing and smell and so will you if you want to find them!
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Animals from snow leopards to poison dart frogs live in diverse habitats ranging from exotic tropical rain forests to the familiar northeast woodlands.
To protect these animals India has preserved vast area of forests and habitats spreading across 80 National Parks and 441 Wildlife sanctuaries.
Primates roamed around forests curiously staring at dead animals and occasionally taking up objects as tools in an instinctive bid to stay alive.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Deserts are second only to tropical rain forests in the variety of plants and animals that live there.
Possums are the number one ecological threat to our native forests and the animal life that lives there.
The LaCloche forest is full of wildlife and home of a great many species of plants and animals enjoy a tour with a guide.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Forests are habitat for game and myriads of other species of animals including the aquatic species that require the quality of water provided by forested watersheds.
There are more species of plants and animals in the tropical rain forests than all of the world's other ecosystems combined.
Healthy forests are essential to habitat for a diversity of plant and animal life, to the hydrologic cycle, and to carbon storage to mitigate global warming.
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