Gibbons are at home in the high canopy of tropical forests, but they are relatively heavy and the gaps between trees are too large to travel by swinging alone.
"The weeds are growing up like trees and they are going to start interfering with the houses if the roots come through and we don't want that, " she said.
The authors praise the steps that Brazil has taken in recent years to curb deforestation, but they are concerned that the clearing of trees could now be on the rise once again.
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In both titi and owl monkeys, the father assumes the critical duty of carrying his children around until they are able to move safely and independently through the trees.
Analysts get close to the government entities and companies under their coverage, making analysts more sympathetic to the securities they are covering. (Not to mention making it easier to miss the forest for all the trees.) Analysts also succumb to herd behavior, meaning they are unlikely to create a forecast or reach a conclusion that is significantly different from that of their peers.
"I don't have to worry about the trees because they are all gone, " she said.
But when the trees are damaged they're only suitable for less-profitable uses, such as pulpwood for pulp plants or for biomass plants.
The worst it would do is send somebody out to examine your property and find that all of the trees are where they should be.
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The masts are eyesores: the tallest structures on most islands, they jut up through the coconut and palm trees.
While people are tempted to say they have spring tree pollen allergies, it is helpful to know the exact types of trees you are sensitive to -- that way you can watch the pollen counts more efficiently.
The poisonous hairs can be carried on the wind and are left in the caterpillars' silken, web-like nests, which they make in oak trees.
They are the ambulance chasers of the forest floor, thriving on the death of trees and the rain that speeds their decay.
The trees, some so ancient and so bent that they are sculptures themselves, enhance the majesty and the subtlety of the bronzes.
If trees take up less CO2 because they are stressed, then the CO2 levels in the atmosphere will increase, putting more forests at risk.
Cyclical tools are like trees, whose falling leaves fertilize the soil in which they grow.
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"Some people are going to come to their homes, they're going to find trees in the middle of their kitchens, " Nagin said.
Now the same tractors they use to plant soybeans are put to work planting seeds from native trees like Landi, Muruci and Baru.
Some conservationists are cautiously enthusiastic about the new trees, reckoning that it is better that they be cultivated than that the last stands of virgin forest be felled.
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They are growing different crops, planting trees, harvesting rainwater and growing fodder for livestock to minimize the impacts of climate change.
Amid gnarled tea trees, visitors glimpse the nesting sites of ibis, spoonbills and, if they are lucky, magnificent brolgas, a water bird larger than a crane.
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While the trees historically grew from the southern Arabian peninsula to the Horn of Africa, they are now found mostly in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and India.
If we are going to have trees, they absolutely shouldn't be trees that cause us to fleece the taxpayer in this way, and that must change at the earliest opportunity.
Most of the governments with a toe in the Amazon now accept that they should seek foreign money for schemes to ensure that trees are worth more standing up than they are lying down.
On one side are the people who believe that the first proto-birds climbed into trees and that, as they glided down, they figured out how to flap.
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