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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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This undisturbed upland is covered with tropical rain forest that are home to many species of rare plants and animals.
The Lewises are trying desperately to catalog the wide variety of plants used by tropical rain forest cultures before the forests are chopped down.
Trees in the tropical rain forests make up 70 percent of the plant species and can grow up to 200 feet tall.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Tropical rain forests tend to look like the "typical jungle" with a profusion of vines and climbing plants such as the strangler figs.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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This plant occurs throughout the tropical rain forests in the region of southern Cameroun in western Africa.
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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.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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There are more species of plants and animals in the tropical rain forests than all of the world's other ecosystems combined.
Because of the burning and removal of trees and plants in tropical rain forests, the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are increasing.
Because growth is so rapid in tropical rain forests, the nutrients provided by dead plants and animal droppings gets used up very quickly.
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