16. The native communities live in clearly identifiable ecological zones tropical dry forest, subtropical rain forest and tropical rain forest scattered over large catchment areas.

The services provided by SCD 1 could be extended to cover all tropical and subtropical areas of the globe.

Imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics.

Canopied trees as tall as 40 meters, 130 feet, grow densely in the area.

Salmon sharks go down to the tropics to pup and come into Monterey.

It lives throughout the tropics, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, into the Pacific.

Wiens research also revealed that local extinction vary from region to region. Compared to regions with temperate climate, the probability of local extinction of species in tropical regions is doubled.

27. There is as yet limited experience on the use of satellite radar images in tropical regions.

Maintain the radiosonde network, and expand it into areas with inadequate coverage, especially the tropics.

The European Union projects Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observations by Satellite (TREES) and FIRE provide data on deforestation and the presence of forest fires in tropical regions.

Yellow fever is an acute contagious disease caused by the yellow fever virus, and is spread through mosquito bites. It is prevalent in tropical regions in Africa and Latin America.

Northern region (Uige)

Globally, the loss of forests has mainly occurred in tropical and sub tropical regions, caused by the logging of hardwoods, clearance of forests for agriculture and collection of firewood.

In the tropics, raindrops are not formed from ice crystals, which is the case in the temperate zones, you need the trees with unclear , chemicals that come out of the leaves of the trees that initiate the raindrops.

And I thought that this richness belonged to tropical seas, and that the Mediterranean was a naturally poor sea.

Tropical heat is very bad

135. The PLEC programme focuses on land resources and biological diversity in managed agro ecosystems among smallholder farmers in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Background The Desertification Convention Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid, and dry sub humid areas.

For instance, changes are taking place in precipitation patterns, with a trend toward higher precipitation levels in the world s upper latitudes and lower precipitation in some sub tropical and tropical regions, as well as in the Mediterranean area. The number of extreme precipitation events is also increasing and are increasingly widespread.

At higher latitudes, El Niño anomalies are more variable from one El Niño event to another than in tropical regions, where climate predictions are generally more reliable.

(d) In 1994, law enforcement authorities in Georgia detected experimental illicit cultivation of coca bush in Adjaria, an area in the country with a subtropical climate, and in the mountains of Svatenia.

October can see some intense temperature swings across the U.S. as the Arctic gets cooler, but the tropics remain quite warm.

Noting with concern the high environmental cost and often irreversible impact of the appearance and establishment of illicit crops in isolated tropical areas that form part of strategic ecosystems possessing a high degree of biological diversity and having abundant forests,

In the Caribbean, we have our own experience with hurricanes, and during the last season we suffered widespread devastation.

81. RainForest ReGeneration Institute, Washington D.C., United States of America

Over two thirds of total rainfall, one of the main sources of global climate change on the Earth, occurs in tropical areas.

More than 1,000 international volunteers are dispatched each year to engage in tree planting programmes together with local people of tropical Asia and the Pacific.

Provide financial support to continue existing long term profiling of ozone, and to enhance these measurements in data sparse areas, particularly in the tropics.

The Coastal Regions and Small Islands Unit of UNESCO will publish in 1998 a remote sensing handbook for tropical coastal management.

9. It is recognized that most of the world s plant biodiversity lies in cultivated and semi cultivated lands in the tropics and subtropics an area many times larger than can be effectively protected through government controls.

And this is the tropics.

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We are approaching the tropics.

7. The Arctic regions and the tropical rainforests faced large scale exploration and exploitation of their rich natural resources and at the same time were home to many indigenous cultures.

Dryland, mediterranean, arid, semi arid, grassland and savannah ecosystems

Now, this area is the chief target in the country for running in narcotics.

tropical storm

Many species are headed through this region, which is why there's been so much attention put into conservation of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape.

Those applications covered hazard assessment in tropical regions, environmental monitoring, water resource inventory and monitoring, atmospheric studies and meteorology.

Data from the ERS wind scatterometer are of particular help in the tropical region, in the southern hemisphere and in the northern Pacific Ocean because of the very limited amount of available statistical data on these areas.

ITTO is currently implementing 10 transboundary conservation projects that cover 10.3 million hectares of tropical forests, and ITTO and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) jointly organized an international workshop on increasing the effectiveness of transboundary conservation areas in tropical forests, held in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, in 2003.

International Tropical Timber Agreement.

Over two thirds of global rainfall occurs in tropical areas, producing one of the main sources of global climate change.

Other researchers tell us that the rite of circumcision was practised by pagan peoples in the tropical zones of Africa and the Philippines, by the Incas in Mexico, by certain tribes in the Upper Amazon, and, in Australia, by the Arunta women.

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