(n.) Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.
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Rainforest
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(1) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(2) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(3) Indonesia has greatly under-reported how much primary rainforest it is cutting down, according to the government's former head of forestry data gathering.
(4) The draw left England facing a trip to Manaus in the humid rainforest where they will play Italy in Manaus on 14 June in their opening Group D match.
(5) A Greenpeace spokesperson : "Asia Pulp and Paper has been responsible for the destruction of vast swaths of Indonesia's rainforests, including areas of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.
(6) Counsell says: “If that is done, there is the possibility to increase palm oil production without causing the environmental damage that we’ve seen in Borneo, while bringing much needed developmental improvements to the communities in those regions.” Watch the palm oil debate interactive: From rainforest to your cupboard: the real story of palm oil - interactive The palm oil debate is funded by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
(7) To put it less cryptically, it may well be that a confidential deposition of a relevant witness may short cut months of argument about appropriate processes and save (at least) part of one small rainforest.
(8) The project is also working with the World Bank on an emergency package to stimulate private sector finance for rainforest nations.
(9) Last Thursday, at an event hosted by the Prince of Wales, I set out plans for working with the private sector and rainforest countries so that the timber and foodstuffs we buy do not cause deforestation.
(10) It’s after that notice something missing in the rainforest-like landscape: undergrowth.
(11) Top tip: The Hall of Mosses trail in Hoh is a short, one-mile loop through old growth rainforest.
(12) Some plantation companies, prompted by their customers, have promised to stop destroying the rainforest.
(13) Most of it lives in the Amazon rainforest, home to one in 10 of all the plant and animal species in the world.
(14) Like the strikingly similar landscapes of low wiry vegetation that you can now see in some former rainforest areas in the tropics, these habitats have been created through repeated cycles of cutting and burning.
(15) The prince, who has long campaigned for the survival of rainforests , said that forest protection would be key to a successful deal.
(16) "The longer we all argue about minutiae and statistics, the more rainforest disappears.
(17) Drilling for oil in a part of the Amazon rainforest considered one of the most biodiverse hotspots on the planet is to go ahead less than a year after Ecuador's president lifted a moratorium on oil drilling there.
(18) That is why I established a Rainforests Project to try to promote a consensus on how tropical deforestation might be significantly reduced.
(19) Many Gabonese also pointed out that five days to count 600,000 votes – Gabon is a country with vast rainforests but a tiny population – was excessive.
(20) It was a crucial moment: between 2001 and 2002, 26,000sq km (10,000 sq miles) of rainforest had been lost.