Nor, if Dr Wolfe can raise the money, will the project be confined to tropical forests.
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Slender lorises are small, nocturnal primates found only in the tropical forests of southern India and Sri Lanka.
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Think of multinational corporations clear-cutting tropical forests, home-grown movies being squeezed out by Hollywood blockbusters, and the Asian Financial Crisis.
Yet they lack any mechanism to reduce the emissions from cutting and burning the valuable tropical forests of developing countries.
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Future climate change could change the profile of tropical forests, with possible consequences for carbon storage and biodiversity, a study says.
The effect in the tropics should be even greater due to the inefficient nature of markets for tropical forests and forest products.
But Ana Rodrigues believes the conclusions probably hold true for other countries stocked with tropical forests in southeast Asia or west Africa.
"Size of Wales" will continue operating to keep the land secure and also educate people in Wales about their impact on tropical forests.
In the tropical forests of the island, just south of the equator, 37, 000 Japanese troops died from disease and starvation during the second world war.
He said the study's findings, when combined with other results from other similar projects, created a picture of tropical forests that were changing "rather quickly".
Now she is looking after the night monkey, a member of the Aotus genus, which lives in the tropical forests of South America, including Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador.
The Ehrlichs are correct that some trends deserve worry: soil erosion, degradation of tropical forests, fish depletion, the loss of farmland, to mention some of the most serious.
Gibbons are at home in the high canopy of tropical forests, but they are relatively heavy and the gaps between trees are too large to travel by swinging alone.
An RSPCA wildlife expert explained that coatis are native to South, Central and parts of North America and are commonly found in tropical forests, living primarily on a diet of insects.
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This is a compelling argument for conserving tropical forests.
Professor Enquist said the species that favoured such conditions were deciduous, canopy trees, and if the trend of drier conditions continued into the future then it would change the characteristics of tropical forests.
Over countless millennia it evolved its own vibrant ecosystem, its volcanic peaks cloaked in deep tropical forests still riot with life: exotic birds, flowers and reptiles, many of these species found nowhere else on the planet.
The on-going loss of tropical forests, and the implications that has for climate change, biodiversity, rural livelihoods and water supplies illustrates the reason why environmental groups are still very much needed, despite the successes of the past.
It was instrumental in designing the Clean Development Mechanism, which it is doing very nicely out of, and it fears that flooding the market for carbon credits with new supply from tropical forests would depress the price and destroy the mechanism.
Total carbon deposits per square kilometer in these coastal systems may be up to five times the carbon stored in tropical forests, due to their ability to absorb, or sequester, carbon at rates up to 50 times those of the same area of tropical forest.
The forests of the site include some of the best representatives of non-equatorial tropical evergreen forests anywhere and are home to at least 325 globally threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish species.
And wherever there is such demand for tropical agribusiness, forests are being razed to meet it.
But developing countries have no incentive to stop cutting down their forests, and tropical deforestation accounts for around 20% of total annual greenhouse-gas emissions.
What hope of survival have forests, especially the tropical sort, most precious and most threatened?
These include the tropical Andes, the Brazilian Atlantic forests and Africa's Cape floristic region.
It is thought that some of the rare tropical diseases may have emerged from the forests of Africa where they have been harboured for thousands of years by species that would previously not have come into contact with humans.
"It's very dangerous, " says Sam Kabonge, a fisherman from the Bugala island in Lake Victoria, a tropical patch of land boasting sandy shores and lush forests.
It donates grants to organisations in the UK and worldwide, and runs a forests programme targeted at avoiding deforestation in tropical areas in some of the world's poorest countries.
They found that African citizens have far less control over the forests they inhabit than do the peoples of other tropical regions.
With more than 20 feet of rain a year, these forests are as wet - and correspondingly lush - as a tropical rainforest.
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