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Book Synopsis 50 Simple Steps to Save the World's Rainforests by : Kim Henderson
Download or read book 50 Simple Steps to Save the World's Rainforests written by Kim Henderson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the very best conservation and environmental policy-making efforts, at least 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest disappear each day. If action is not taken now, experts estimate that the world’s rainforests will mostly disappear within 50 years. Currently, the destruction of tropical forests is responsible for 17 percent of man-made carbon emissions-more than what comes from all the world’s cars, airplanes and ships combined! Tropical rainforests need our help-and that’s where 50 Simple Steps to Save the World’s Rainforests comes in. The future of the world’s rainforests lies to a large extent in the collective hands of consumers and how they shop, since demand is what fuels the forces driving deforestation-agriculture, logging, and resource extraction. Through the 50-step journey, you will learn how, as a consumer, you may unwittingly support rainforest destruction and more importantly, precisely how you can make different choices that help save rainforests. For example, you will learn how your paper use and purchases of rayon clothing affect Indonesian rainforests where Sumatran tigers are critically endangered or how simply eating Brazil nuts helps save the Amazon rainforest. You will discover how the cultivation of palm oil, a common ingredient in confections, baked goods, soaps and biofuels, is fueling rampant deforestation in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and how you can avoid it. 50 Simple Steps to Save the Rainforests is the ultimate primer for anyone wanting to take action to help save this ecosystem, which is so critical to the future of mankind.
Download or read book Rainforest written by Tony Juniper and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity—but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world have a powerful and concrete impact, reaching as far as America’s Great Plains and central Europe. In Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines, a prominent conservationist provides a comprehensive view of the crucial roles rainforests serve, the state of the world’s rainforests today, and the inspirational efforts underway to save them. In Rainforest, Tony Juniper draws upon decades of work in rainforest conservation. He brings readers along on his journeys, from the thriving forests of Costa Rica to Indonesia, where palm oil plantations have supplanted much of the former rainforest. Despite many ominous trends, Juniper sees hope for rainforests and those who rely upon them, thanks to developments like new international agreements, corporate deforestation policies, and movements from local and Indigenous communities. As climate change intensifies, we have already begun to see the effects of rainforest destruction on the planet at large. Rainforest provides a detailed and wide-ranging look at the health and future of these vital ecosystems. Throughout this evocative book, Juniper argues that in saving rainforests, we save ourselves, too.
Book Synopsis Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World by : Dominick A. DellaSala
Download or read book Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World written by Dominick A. DellaSala and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temperate rainforests are biogeographically unique. Compared to their tropical counterparts, temperate rainforests are rarer and are found disproportionately along coastlines. Because most temperate rainforests are marked by the intersection of marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems, these rich ecotones are among the most productive regions on Earth. Globally, temperate rainforests store vast amounts of carbon, provide habitat for scores of rare and endemic species with ancient affinities, and sustain complex food-web dynamics. In spite of their global significance, however, protection levels for these ecosystems are far too low to sustain temperate rainforests under a rapidly changing global climate and ever expanding human footprint. Therefore, a global synthesis is needed to provide the latest ecological science and call attention to the conservation needs of temperate and boreal rainforests. A concerted effort to internationalize the plight of the world’s temperate and boreal rainforests is underway around the globe; this book offers an essential (and heretofore missing) tool for that effort. DellaSala and his contributors tell a compelling story of the importance of temperate and boreal rainforests that includes some surprises (e.g., South Africa, Iran, Turkey, Japan, Russia). This volume provides a comprehensive reference from which to build a collective vision of their future.
Book Synopsis Orange and Ivy Save the Rainforest by : Jimmy Nielsen
Download or read book Orange and Ivy Save the Rainforest written by Jimmy Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a family vacation, a young girl named Ivy comes across a new friend. An Orangutan she names Orange! Join in on the adventure as Orange teaches Ivy all about the rainforest and what is happening to his home. Orange shows Ivy first hand the destructive effects of Palm Oil, an oil used in most snack foods and cosmetics in the United States. This story is an interactive journey learning about the destructive effects of Palm Oil on Rainforests and what you can do to help! Will you join Ivy and Orange on the quest to save the rainforest and end the destructive use of Palm Oil? Included with the book are coloring pages, interesting rainforest facts page, and an interactive family activity designed to help you do your part to save the rainforests! Learn along with your kids about sustainable choices, and how you can make a difference just by checking the labels on the products you buy at the grocery store.
Book Synopsis Saving the Rain Forest with Cammie and Cooper by : Toni Albert
Download or read book Saving the Rain Forest with Cammie and Cooper written by Toni Albert and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can seven-year-old Cammie and her little brother Cooper find a way to save the rain forests? Yes, they can! With the help of a handsome, talkative parrot called Sunflower, Cammie and Cooper have a remarkable adventure.
Book Synopsis Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth by : Paula Prober
Download or read book Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth written by Paula Prober and published by Editeurs divers USA. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you long to drive a Ferrari at top speed on the open road, but find yourself always stuck on the freeway during rush hour? Do you wonder how you can feel like "not enough" and "too much" at the same time? Like the rain forest, are you sometimes intense, multilayered, colorful, creative, overwhelming, highly sensitive, complex, and/or idealistic? And, like the rain forest, have you met too many chainsaws?Enter Paula Prober, M.S., M.Ed., who understands the diversity and complexity of minds like yours. In "Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Youths and Adults," Paula explores the challenges faced by gifted adults of all ages. Through case studies and extensive research, Paula will help you tap into your inner creativity, find peace, and discover the limitless potential that comes with your Rainforest Mind.
Book Synopsis Save the Planet by : Almir Narayamoga Surui
Download or read book Save the Planet written by Almir Narayamoga Surui and published by Schaffner Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almir Sarayamoga Suruí, the Amazonian tribal chieftain of the indigenous Suruí people, is a leader in the fight to save the rainforest not only for the preservation of his land and people, but for the Earth's and humanity's survival as well. Joining forces with such high-tech corporations as Apple and Google Earth, Suruí has become a guardian of his people and a global activist, despite death threats and million dollar bounties on his head. A recipient of the Global Citizen Award in 2012, Suruí has calculated the direct cost of the loss of our rainforests--"the lungs of the Earth"--in terms of the total amount of Co2 that their destruction would release into the atmosphere, and the monetary loss that this would entail, and by using this carbon deficit formula, has leased access to pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies who have joined him in the stewardship of these endangered lands, their flora, fauna, and people.
Book Synopsis From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba by : Reinaldo Funes Monzote
Download or read book From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba written by Reinaldo Funes Monzote and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction, for cane fields and sugar production. This book is the first to consider Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental history. Funes Monzote demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba--and upon which Cuba urgently depended--also devastated the ecology of the island. The original Spanish-language edition of the book, published in Mexico in 2004, was awarded the UNESCO Book Prize for Caribbean Thought, Environmental Category. For this first English edition, the author has revised the text throughout and provided new material, including a glossary and a conclusion that summarizes important developments up to the present.
Book Synopsis Tropical Rainforests by : Seymour Simon
Download or read book Tropical Rainforests written by Seymour Simon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical rainforests are home to brilliantly colored birds and spider monkeys that swing like acrobats. Here, tiny tadpoles, lizards, and crabs live in sky-high penthouse mini-ponds formed in the leaves of rootless plants. The understory and forest floor swarm with insects, worms, frogs, toads, and millions of marching army ants. But beware! There are poisonous butterflies, frogs, and insects; venomous snakes; and plants that can paralyze. Now, you can enter this wild world! Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon has teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution to take you on an exotic, full-color photographic adventure.
Book Synopsis One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest by : Jean Craighead George
Download or read book One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest written by Jean Craighead George and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today is doomsday for a young Venezuelan Indian boy's beloved rain forest and its animal life—unless he and a visiting naturalist can save it. "George makes drama large and small out of the minute-by-minute events in an ecosystem . . . gripping ecological theater." —C. "An example of nonfiction writing at its best." —SLJ. Notable 1990 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1990 (NSTA/CBC)
Book Synopsis Looking Closely in the Rain Forest by : Frank Serafini
Download or read book Looking Closely in the Rain Forest written by Frank Serafini and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the magic of close-up photography, the author first asks the reader to identify an object found in a rain forest in a super-close-up picture, with the next page revealing the entire picture.
Book Synopsis Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation by : Jaboury Ghazoul
Download or read book Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation written by Jaboury Ghazoul and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive, attractive, and readable introduction to tropical rain forest ecology, biogeography, and management. It tackles the subject at local, regional, and global scales, and is both up-to-date and fully integrated across disciplines.
Download or read book Nafanua written by Paul Alan Cox and published by W H Freeman & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Cox describes his research and adventures in Samoa, work that led to him being hailed by TIME magazine as a hero of medicine and awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Working closely with the native healers, Cox studied traditional rainforest remedies and is credited with finding natural drugs that can be used in treating AIDS, discovering a rare species of flying fox, launching an international campaign to save a 30,000-acre rainforest and helping to rebuild a village destroyed by a hurricane. Cox's respect for the traditional villagers and his excitement and perseverance make Nafunua a story of scientific and personal discovery.
Book Synopsis The Rainforest Book by : Charlotte Milner
Download or read book The Rainforest Book written by Charlotte Milner and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a journey through the enchanting world of the rainforest in Charlotte Milner's beautifully illustrated The Rainforest Book. Sweep aside the liana vines, hop over the giant roots of the kapok tree, and follow the sound of the howler monkey as you venture into the tropical rainforest. Find out about some of the amazing animals that live there, learn about the enormous variety of life-giving plants, and discover why the Amazon rainforest is known as the 'lungs' of our Earth. In this beautiful ebook, Charlotte Milner continues to highlight the important ecological issues faced by our planet, following on from The Bee Book, The Sea Book, and The Bat Book. Did you know that over half of our planet's wildlife live in the rainforest? And that at least 2 metres of rain falls in the rainforest every year? The world's rainforests are packed with amazing animals and plants, from the deadly poison dart frog, to the stinky rafflesia flower - there is plenty to discover! As our planet's climate crisis becomes even more critical, The Rainforest Book is the perfect way to introduce little nature-lovers to this enchanting yet threatened world. This celebration of the rainforest shows children just how important it is, and reminds them that it is up to us to care for our planet and its wildlife.
Download or read book Rainforests written by Yvonne Franklin and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers learn all about tropical and temperate rainforests and the differences between these two unique biomes in this Spanish-translated title. Rainforests are filled with wonder and mystery, from the tall trees in the canopy to the dark and damp leaves on the forest floor. The plants and animals that inhabit these rainforests are varied and exotic. They depend on the rainforest, as does the rest of the world.
Book Synopsis Breakfast in the Rainforest by : Richard Sobol
Download or read book Breakfast in the Rainforest written by Richard Sobol and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the mountain gorilla in their remote habitat in Uganda, discussing the characteristics and behavior of the animals, the reasons for their endangered status, and the efforts being made to keep them from becoming extinct.
Book Synopsis The Lost Rainforests of Britain by : Guy Shrubsole
Download or read book The Lost Rainforests of Britain written by Guy Shrubsole and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile ‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday Times
