What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of tropical forests?
An enormous diversity of animal and plant species? Their colourfulness? Their intricate interactions between each other and close interdependance?
The beauty of the surroundings in which they live?
Or maybe you want to know the role of rain forests in regulating global climate trends?
These are the areas that really intrigue us as well.
The main idea of this website is to give you an overview of tropical forests as well as biology of tropical animals and their life within their ecosystems.
Another area that we cover is conservation, so you will find a lot of material on this subject here too.
You will find information about the most exciting animals that can hopefully spark your imagination, and help us all to fully appreciate the value of tropical forests, plant and animal diversity residing within them, and why we should all care about "saving the rain forests".
We have also added popular topics like environmental pollution and global warming which have significant impacts on tropical ecosystems.
Our section on green investment will let you see how your environmentally concsious investment decisions can help alleviate the pressure on the global environment.
Like many other people, I am really concerned about the state of our environment, to say the least. I get upset every time I read news about tropical rainforests being destroyed, floods, pollution, excessive exploitation of natural resources and so on.
Of course, global efforts are required by all the countries to come even close to overcoming these issues.
But I have always wondered if there was anything practical we all can do (and not just recycling :)) to help the situation.
I have already talked about green investment as one way to "put your money where your mouth is".
But recently I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that you can actually build your own solar panel and use solar electricity to meet at least some of your home's electric needs !
There was no single doubt in my mind that I had to write a section on diy solar panels as well :).
If you want to make the most of using this site, please read an article on how to browse this site first.
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