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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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Rain forests, especially lowland rain forests, have decreased in area and is still decreasing.
Forests Tropical rain forests, as well as tropical and temperate dry forests, are being destroyed rapidly.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The plateau is studded with thick tropical rain forests, interspersed with slowly fuming volcanoes that form the backbone of the land.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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From lush rain forests we travel over the rugged Southern Alps through spectacular gorges, river valleys and cross a huge viaduct before descending into the rich fertile patchwork of the Canterbury Plains and Christchurch.
Tropical rain forests are forests of tall, dense trees in regions of warmth and plentiful rainfall.
Changing rain shadows and drainage patterns turned forests into woodlands and woodlands into grass, and sometimes back into forests.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Tropical rain forest covers the steep slopes of the center and gives way to cultivated agricultural land around the more moderately sloping coastal fringe.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Rain forests, unspoiled beaches, coral reefs, white water rivers and volcanoes can all be reached within a few hours by car.
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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It is unsurprising tropical rain forests have relatively high numbers of recorded extinctions, because even assuming an universal susceptibility to extinction they have more respective species to lose.
There are more species of plants and animals in the tropical rain forests than all of the world's other ecosystems combined.
Tropical reefs are the marine equivalent of rain forests for species diversity.
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