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Bioregionalism and Fad Herbs
... For example, anything from the tropical rainforest is considered politically correct nowadays. However, it is completely insane to ship a plant 13,000 miles from the tropical rainforest for a simple urinary infection, ... beliefs by how we spend our money. Many of us feel that by buying rainforest products we will stop environmental destruction and help indigenous peoples. Unfortunately, I wonder if ...
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Why Study Plants?
... plants. Scientists conservatively estimate that at least 300 useful drugs are still undiscovered in the tropical rainforests of South America, at a potential profit of $94 million each. Mark Plotkin, an ... led to the creation of medicines that can save lives and cure illnesses. As the tropical rainforest shrinks day by day, the potential to discover new plants shrinks as well, yet few ...
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The Story of Orchids - The North of England Orchid Society
... of the world except Antarctica, living on trees, rocks, in the ground or under it, tropical rainforest or lush grassland, high mountain or bog, they thrived, nothing seems capable of upsetting their ...
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TC
... (Nepal, India) and to a lesser extent, Oceania (Australia, Fiji) in habitats from desert to tropical rainforest. He has a Ph.D in Botany (University of Cape Town, 1985) and a Master ... . CUNNINGHAM, A B, B BELCHER & B M CAMPBELL (eds). in prep. "Carving out a future : tropical forests, livelihoods and the international woodcarving trade". To be published by Earthscan, London (2004). CUNNINGHAM ...
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Handbook 4
... Asia Resource centers Iwokrama International Centre CAB International Center for Tropical Forest Science Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza Centre for Indigenous Knowledge for ... Africa Solomon Islands Development Trust NGOs PELUM Association The Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples Organization for Tropical Studies Viewpoints to consider ...Issues to explore A Natural History ...
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Teaching and Learning
... Tune your Teaching by Chuck Downing, Ph.D. Teaching Bioethics by Genevieve M. Nelson Teaching Tropical Rainforest Biology by George Sly Step-by-Step Science Fair Success! by Lily Ning Tuberculosis, An ...
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Belize Botanic Gardens - Habitats
... . Huge amounts of tropical land including savannas are cleared to grow it. Help tropical savannas. Buy from small, local farms and avoid imported produce and meat products. Rainforest The tapir is the national animal of Belize and is protected in this country. Even with protection the tapir is endangered due to the destruction of its habitat, the tropical rainforest. Tropical ...
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Raintree is a leading supplier of rainforest botanicals from the Amazon Rainforest
... of the rainforest botanicals under development. Raintree's Tropical Plant database on the Internet's World Wide Web provides over 300 pages of Raintree's compiled research and documentation on these rainforest ... the future as reason to deny U.S. plant use patents from being filed on tropical rainforest plants. Raintree is also proud to be a collaboration partner with TEK*PAD (Traditional Ecological ...
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Sustainable Rainforest Products
... . http://rainseed.com/ Rainforest plant seeds primarily gathered from a 1500-acre virgin rainforest in Costa Rica that was saved from logging some 15 years ago. Tropical Rainforest Seed Co. PO Box 3004-311 Corvallis, OR 97339 Tel: (503) 765-3323 Website and Online Shopping Tropical rainforest ...
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The National Arbor Day Foundation
... About the Amazing Rain Forest Save 2,500 Square Feet of Rainforest Today You can help! Try rain forest-saving Arbor Day Coffee ... USA Volunteer Tree Planting Youth Education More ... The Amazing Rain Forest Tropical rain forests exist in a belt around the Earth's middle. ... between 80 and 200 inches. Most of the trees in a tropical rain forest are broadleaf trees that remain green throughout the year. ...
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