tropical rainforest
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Spreading over dozens of hectares of protected tropical rainforest, Tacugama is home to the critically endangered Western chimpanzee, which is threatened by habitat loss and poaching for bushmeat.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
The planning permission for the project has now been submitted, and some of the plants that make up the indoor tropical rainforest have started to be relocated.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
But seagrass does it especially fast — at a rate 35 times that of tropical rainforest.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
They analysed organisms ranging from microscopic mites and earthworms in the soil, to beetles and birds in tree canopies, comparing tropical rainforest with rubber and oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia.
From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024
The Panamanian populations are geographically separated from the Costa Rican and more northern populations by an area of tropical rainforest in the Golfo Dulce region in southeastern Costa Rica and adjacent Panamá.
From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by león, Juan R.
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