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as the game has received new items in the Rainforest theme released at the beginning of the week. This theme has expanded with new trees, animals and more, and as usual, we're here with a complete ...
While we are standing next to an illegally chopped down tree that's the color of blood, I ask Pilker, the rubber-tapper leader, what the future of the rain forest is. Her whole family lives off ...
A native of the Brazilian rainforest, the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis is no longer grown commercially in the country due to the prevalence of South American leaf blight, a catastrophic pathogen ...
Half of the world's forests were destroyed during the 20th century, with three regions mainly affected: South America, West ...
Here's how they're made, and how the factory is helping to protect the rainforest from deforestation. The tree at the center of all this is the Seringueira rubber tree. The milky latex that can be ...
The French botanist and biologist Francis Hallé has spent 40 years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest ... Queen Victoria’s rubber tree; legends of ...
On a rainy March afternoon, Rogério Mendes strides through the dripping vegetation of a tract of virgin Amazonian forest and stops at a tree with ... preserving the rain forest, experts say ...
I n the early 20th century, the Amazon rainforest witnessed one of the bloodiest periods in its history, its rubber trees exploited to extract the precious latex needed to feed the demands of ...