It is the tendency throughout many parts of South America to express concern for the loss of beauty, biodiversity and opportunity of the Amazon only after large areas of forest is torn down for human "needs" The Brazilian government is aiming for 25 percent of dense forests to come under sustaina...
BIOMES OF THE WORLD RATIONALE FOR HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTS Life on Earth is extremely interesting, as most of us already know from television, if not from our own travels, and it becomes more so when each piece of the complex pattern fits understandably into the whole. One important goal of a biology curriculum should be to educate students about nature, in order to promote empathy and support for the natural world around us, and the interrelationship of all aspects of nature must be an integral part of the message delivered. Biomes (bioclimatic zones) ...
