Southeast Asian Rainforest
A rain forest is simply an area of tall, mostly evergreen trees and a high amount of rainfall. A rainforest is an area of tall, mostly evergreen trees and a high amount of rainfall. Rainforests are Earth's oldest living ecosystems, with some surviving in their present form for at least 70 million years.
There are many more animals that live in India's rain forests.
- A lot of the animals are endangered.
- The clouded leopard, flying squirrel, sloth, leopard, tiger, slow loris, and Indian bison are just a few.
- Some birds that are endangered are pheasants, eagles, owls, wood ducks and hornbills.
Tropical Deciduous Forests
Malabar Coast moist forestsIt has an area of 35,500 square kilometres (13,700 sq mi), and extends from northern Maharashtra through Goa, Karnataka and Kerala to Kanniyakumari in southernmost Tamil Nadu. The ecoregion extends from sea level to the 250 metre contour of the Western Ghats.
Tropical Evergreen Forests – CharacteristicsThe tropical wet evergreen forest in India is usually found in areas receiving more than 200 cm of rainfall and having a temperature of 15-30 degrees Celsius. They occupy about 7% of the earth's surface. They are found mostly near the equator.
The world's largest rainforests: Amazon, Daintree, Congo Basin and more.
Most of Asia's tropical rainforests are scattered across the islands of Indonesia. Experts believe that the rainforests of Malaysia existed as far back as 100 million years ago. Half of the Tongass National Forest is covered in rainforests, and the other half is made up of rock, ice, and water.
The Daintree Rainforest is a part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland Rainforest, that spans across the Cairns Region. The Wet Tropics Rainforest (that the Daintree is a part of) is the oldest continually surviving tropical rainforest in the world.
Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve
Deforestation is in fact considered the second major driver of climate change (more than the entire global transport sector), responsible for 18-25% of global annual carbon dioxide emissions. Direct human causes of deforestation include logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction and dam-building.
The world's most awesome rainforests and how to visit them
- 1: Daintree National Park, Australia.
- 2: Dominica.
- 3: Bako National Park, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.
- 4: Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra, Indonesia.
- 5: Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.
- 6: Loango National Park, Gabon.
- 7: Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
How to (Try to) Make It Rain
- Seeding the Sky. The most widely used weather-modification technique is probably cloud seeding, which involves priming clouds with particles of silver iodide.
- Rain Rockets. Airplanes aren't the only way to seed clouds.
- The Atmosphere Zapper.
- Ice-Breaking Booms.
- Riding the Lightning.
In just 40 years, possibly 1bn hectares, the equivalent of Europe, has gone. Half the world's rainforests have been razed in a century, and the latest satellite analysis shows that in the last 15 years new hotspots have emerged from Cambodia to Liberia. At current rates, they will vanish altogether in 100 years.
In addition to the carbon release associated with deforestation, NASA has estimated that if deforestation levels proceed, the remaining world's forests will disappear in about 100 years.
Continuing our focus on some of the planet's least explored locations, today we venture to the heart of the Amazon Rainforest. A recent expedition into a previously unexplored and undocumented region in the Brazilian Amazon has found exactly this.
The short answer is no, Earth would not lose 20 percent of its oxygen if the Amazon Rainforest were lost. However, when they die, algae do not decompose on the ocean surface, so they do not draw from the atmosphere the same amount of oxygen that they produced in life.
Food and Agriculture Organization's 2016 State of the Forests report revealed that 7 million hectares of forest are lost annually while agricultural land expands by 6 million. The biggest threat to forests today is industrial agriculture production of commodities like Conflict Palm Oil, fabric, paper and logging.
Around the world, forests are shrinking due to deforestation, urban development and climate change, but in Europe that trend has been reversed. Large areas of the continent have seen a forest boom that means today more than two-fifths of Europe is tree-covered.
Over the past 30 years, 15 percent of the Brazilian Amazon has been destroyed.
One year has passed since the world was shocked by the images of the fires blazing across the Amazon in Brazil. But since then, the forest hasn't stopped burning —and 2020 could be even more devastating for the rainforest and the Indigenous Peoples who call it home.
- There are several different types of rainforests.
- Rainforests cover less than 3 percent of the planet.
- The world's largest rainforest is the Amazon rainforest.
- Rainforests house more species of plants and animals than any other terrestrial ecosystem.
- Much of the life in the rainforest is found in the trees.
