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Rainforest

Rainforest

Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines

ISBN: 9781642830729
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Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity - but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world have a powerful and concrete impact, reaching as far as America's Great Plains and central Europe. In Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines, a prominent  conservationist provides a comprehensive view of the crucial roles rainforests serve, the state of the world's rainforests today, and the inspirational efforts underway to save them.
 
InRainforest, Tony Juniper draws upon decades of work in rainforest conservation. He brings readers along on his journeys, from the thriving forests of Costa Rica to Indonesia, where palm oil plantations have supplanted much of the former rainforest. Despite many ominous trends, Juniper sees hope for rainforests and those who rely upon them, thanks to developments like new international agreements, corporate deforestation policies, and movements from local and Indigenous communities.    
 
As climate change intensifies, we have already begun to see the effects of rainforest destruction on the planet at large. Rainforest provides a detailed and wide-ranging look at the health and future of these vital ecosystems. Throughout this evocative book, Juniper argues that in saving rainforests, we save ourselves, too.

By Tony Juniper

Imprint: ISLAND PRESS

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Format: PAPERBACK

Pages: 472

Introduction: Rainforest Matters

PART 1. Earth's Most Vital Systems
Chapter 1. Rainforest'A Clue in the Name
Chapter 2. Living Atmosphere
Chapter 3. The Ecological Weave
Chapter 4. Evolutionary Treasures

PART II. The Americas  
Chapter 5. The “New Worlda Rainforest Peoples
Chapter 6. Forest Clearance in the Americas
Chapter 7. Counting the Cost: Green Shields
Chapter 8. Protest and Survive
Chapter 9. Forest Dividends in Costa Rica
Chapter 10. The Best Forest Custodians
Chapter 11. Temperate Zone Rainforest

PART III. Africa
Chapter 12. Last Frontiers: The Congo Basin
Chapter 13. The Lost Forests of West Africa
Chapter 14. Climate and Cocoa Challenges

PART IV. Asia and the Pacific
Chapter 15. A Short Tour of the Eastern Forests
Chapter 16. How to Destroy a Rainforest
Chapter 17. Tigers, Pangolins, and Honeycreepers  
Chapter 18. Poachers into Gamekeepers?

PART V. Worth More Alive Than Dead
Chapter 19. Globalized Deforestation  
Chapter 20. GǪAnd Global Solutions
Chapter 21. Valuing Nature and Rainforest
Chapter 22. Future Forests

Endnotes
Note on the Maps
Photo Credits
Acknowledgements
Index

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