baby sloth in the wild
red eyed frog
eggs
they wiggled.
puma - in a cage, but still close
howler monkey in the wild
owl butterfly
hummingbird
Number
of species of birds in 1 square miles of Amazon rainforest:
more than exist in all of North America. *
on a tree on the beach
White faced monkeys like to visit the beach
A part of the rainforest
the size of NY state is destroyed each year.
That's where
these guys live.
- Leading cause of
species in the tropical rain forests being threatened or eliminated:
Livestock grazing.* - "Rainforest beef is typically found in fast food hamburgers or processed beef products. In both 1993 and 1994 the US imported over 200,000,000 pounds of fresh and frozen beef from Central Americn countries. Two thirds of these countries' rainforrests have been cleared, primarily to raise cattle whose stringy, cheap meat is exported to profit the US food industry. When it enters the US, the beef is not labeled with its country of origin, so there is no way to trace its sources." (Rain Forest Action Network)*
- Though Central
American beef exports to the US have declined in recent years, they
still approach 100,000,000 pounds annually.*
*(John Robbins. The Food Revolution, 2001.)
he's in a cage, but we saw some in the wild.