The orchid grows in the rain forests of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

It especially likes to grow in forests.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

For example, areas with mangrove forests were not damaged as badly by the Indian Ocean tsunami in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

In time, Paul and Babe the Blue Ox left Maine, and moved west to look for work in other forests.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Such timber from the forests of Oregon and Washington was sold in California and Mexico, even in China and Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

In the ancient forests of the Lapland area of Finland, many people in the Sami native group make a living raising reindeer.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

There are places to stop along the road to look at the fields and forests down below and far in the distance.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

These programs, along with natural expansion of forests in some areas, have added more than seven million hectares of new forests each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

In some areas there, monkeys play in the tops of mangroves thirty meters tall and dolphins swim in the waters of mangrove forests.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Many people come to see the butterflies in the forests of Mexico's Michoacan State.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Most come from the treetops in wet tropical forests in Central and South America.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

And people active in water-sports like to dive and row boats in kelp forests.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Scientists once thought that these forests existed only in moderate and cold climates.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Agriculture Report. Farmers,especially in developing countries, are often criticized for cutting down forests.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

In the nineteen fifties, forests were cut down for wood and other products.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

But Mr.Sawadogo says in much of Africa, "Nobody is looking after our forests."

VOA: special.2011.05.10

Mr.Donato says these areas are among the most carbon-rich forests in the world.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

The two countries had the highest loss of forests in the nineteen nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

In those days, much of North America was filled with thick, green forests.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

It grows in watery forests in a number of areas.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Within a few months,some forests in the area were gone.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

While much of that wood is produced in American forests, The U.S.imports about $40 billion worth of timber each year.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

(OMITTED) "So we feel that it is a rising tide that lifts all boats in joint efforts to protect the global forests."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

But in recent decades, the world's forests have been stripped of trees at a rapid pace.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

in terms of the biodiversity we have protected by protecting forests;

VOA: standard.2010.02.24