This small forest enclave is also home to hundreds of plant species, some of which, like the kyami tree(ph), are facing extinction in the Caribbean.
But the structure floats on a one-story wall of glass and the high interior space is beautifully shaped by a small forest of cone lamps descending from the roof to just above table height.
"We are working on four small scale forest projects with local community groups to grow and plant over 1, 000, 000 trees to re-store the tree cover in an area now vulnerable to landslides, " he added.
Stormflow generation in to small rain-forest catchment in the Experimental Luquillo Forest, Puerto Rico.
Today, small patches of forest clearance account for more than half the total.
We scrambled on and found ourselves on flat rocks at the place where the small river through the forest disappeared over the edge.
The question was also raised of whether different lemur species adapted to a variety of habitats across Madagascar could all find joy in a relatively small piece of Caribbean dry forest.
The manager of Arco Iris Amazonica, a small hotel in the rain forest city of Iquitos, told police the couple stayed there on February 16 and told him they planned to travel to the town of Naplo, a 15-day trek.
In Germany the second most visited place by Chinese tourists after Berlin is Metzingen, a small town in the Black Forest unknown to most Germans, but home to a giant Hugo Boss discount store since joined by another 20-odd factory outlets for designer labels.
Removing small trees and brushwood from a forest requires heavy machinery or large teams of workers with chainsaws and axes.
The brothers run a real estate development company, Forest, which builds small shopping centers, operates variety stores and sells sundry goods such as trash bags, foil, hangers and laundry nets to chain stores.
Central government, the local community and environmentalists agreed to put land and forest of significance in the control of the Department of Conservation, with a small area of 50, 000 hectares made available for sustainable indigenous forest harvesting.
By the shore is a small patch of lighter green surrounded by dark forest.
Her family had a rural house atop a small hill above a lake, surrounded by forest.
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It has taken years of campaigning by small groups to open up public access to forest and heathland in the UK. Now this government wishes to sell off my property, against my wishes.
Whichever you choose, make sure to wear hiking boots and leech socks -- the forest floor is muddy and thick with small, innocuous leeches.
Nottingham was included in England's bid despite Nottingham Forest's existing City Ground being too small and having inadequate access.
In the wake of the initial charges against Sino-Forest, the shorts have gone on to target small China-linked issuers as a class.
And in Colorado, a spokesman for the Rio Grande National Forest said a fire 15 miles southwest of the small town of Creede was reported.
In Colorado, Mike Blakeman, a spokesman for the Rio Grande National Forest, said a fire 15 miles southwest of the small town of Creede was reported at about noon Friday and the cause of it remained under investigation.
He would be happy to leave this town, to pack his brushes and canvases, his pigments and palette, into the small cart, to saddle his mare, and then take the forest trails that, in three days, would lead him home.
"I would like anyone who saw her or any vehicles, especially in the area of Savernake forest where there are likely to have been only a small number of vehicles at that time of night, to make contact with police, " he added.
The film takes its name from the practice of setting a small fire to clear out nearby brush, allowing a fast-advancing forest fire to pass by harmlessly.
As investors see the value of diversification into sustainable tropical forestry on their portfolio then even a small asset allocation into this asset class will have huge positive effects on forest preservation at a time the world needs stable tropical forest holdings most.
I'm standing in a small village about 15 miles outside of Coimbra, and basically the whole area around here is a very rich forest that has been burnt to the ground.
Everyone managed to escape back into the forest, but I stayed behind to help a mother who had a baby in her arms and a small girl.
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