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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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The Jungle vegetation is represented by tropical forests where wood trees or useful resin trees are alternated with the presence of palm trees and Orchidaceae plants.
Tropical forests are forests with an annual rainfall of at least 98 inches (250 cm) and have evergreen trees forming a continuous canopy.
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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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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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The lush tropical forests are so abundant, scientists believe there are still several unidentified species waiting to be discovered.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Tropical rain forests are forests of tall, dense trees in regions of warmth and plentiful rainfall.
The tropical forests of the Congo Basin represent one of the world's great remnant blocks of closed canopy habitat.
Tropical Forested Wetlands studies the ecology and management of both freshwater and saline swamp forests.
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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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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Jackfruit is a tropical fruit originating in India and the rain forests and mountains of Malaysia.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Tropical forests provide the genetic materials for disease resistant crops and help regulate the rainfall cycles on which world agriculture depends.
Tropical forests have already supplied us with and abundance of useful species - particularly plants - for food and agriculture, medicine and industry.
Tropical reefs are the marine equivalent of rain forests for species diversity.
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