... pigeons, parrots, hummingbirds, hornbills, toucans, ovenbirds, antbirds, cotingas, pittas, birds-of-paradise, babblers, bulbuls, and tanagers. Lizards, snakes, and frogs also exhibit their greatest diversity in the rain forest, including many groups restricted to it. Caecilians are a major amphibian group restricted to the tropics, mostly in forested areas. With so much water available, there is also a tremendous diversity ... ; deeper roots without buttresses; much more variable leaves, including many compound-leaved legumes; and more species with thorns. DIVERSITY. Species diversity is ...

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... to benefit us. Sometimes we are even destroying species habitats without even realizing it. Every time we drive a motor vehicle sulfur and nitrogen oxide is released into the air creating acid rain, which destroys forests and contaminates lakes and streams making them uninhabitable because of its highly acidic precipitation. Global warming is also contributing to the factor of the extinction of species ... Butterflies are highly prized by collectors and many of these species can only be seen in museums and collector's cabinets. The law protects these butterflies but the destruction on t...

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... " (Keller, 262). "...the atmosphere will...need to be regulated as a global trust if the human community is to entertain any possibility of addressing the problems of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and air pollution. In June 1988, the prime ministers of Norway and Canada proposed a "Law of the Air" treaty to protect the atmosphere from global warming and ozone depletion.[The ... ...

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... " (Keller, 262). "...the atmosphere will...need to be regulated as a global trust if the human community is to entertain any possibility of addressing the problems of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and air pollution. In June 1988, the prime ministers of Norway and Canada proposed a "Law of the Air" treaty to protect the atmosphere from global warming and ozone depletion.[The ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School