Rainforest

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"Rainforest" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Most accidents, after all, happen around the corner, not in the rainforest.

The sun and a damp climate made the tropical rainforest.

Save the rainforest!

Thousands of hectares of tropical rainforest are being lost every day.

Palm oil is destroying the rainforest.

The Amazon Rainforest is a vast area in the north of South America, whose main river is the Amazon River.

Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.

We researched the Amazon rainforest.

We must protect the rainforest.

The rainforest was cut down and replaced by a palm oil plantation.

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Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.

Tropical rainforests in Australia have suffered a fate similar in many ways to that of rainforests elsewhere in the world, but considerable progress in safeguarding the future of what remains has been made.

Enjoy your visit to the rainforests, because the next time you go there things could be very different.

Some researchers worry that rainforests will soon reach a tipping point — a point of no return in which the once-lush forests transition to arid regions.

The Sentinelese hunt in the rainforest and fish in the coastal waters using spears, bows and arrows, as well as homemade narrow outrigger canoes, according to Survival International.

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