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In Indonesia, the World Resources Institute, together with a local partner, Sekala, is putting these ideas to the test by working with the Indonesian government, communities and industry to shift new oil palm estates on to already cleared and burnt land instead of cutting species-rich rainforest.

Restoring the world's forests while feeding the poor | Nigel Sizer and Lars Laestadius 2011

Robin Probert, head of technology and training at Kew, said: "This is habitat that has suffered the most over the past decades … only about 2% of the old species-rich meadows are left since the second world war."

Kew unveils native flower seed bank 2011

Ecological transitions enabling the exploitation of dramatically atypical niches, which may be more likely to occur when competition is intense, may help explain the evolution of novel ecological guilds and the diversification of exceptionally species-rich groups such as insects.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Many more destructive dams are planned for rivers that are critical habitat in species-rich places like Southeast Asia's Mekong, Latin America's Amazon, and Africa's Congo.

Lori Pottinger: Celebrate World Environment Day: Adopt a Planet 2010

Our approach, which combines the use of specific primers and phylogenetic analyses, is generally applicable towards the detection of cryptic biodiversity in unexplored and species-rich areas like north-east India.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

The western portion hosts tall species-rich moist evergreen and deciduous forest.

Maranhão Babaçu forests 2008

The cerrado is treated as a sort of under-utilized wasteland, rather than the species-rich biome that it is.

Chris McGowan: Biofuel Could Eat Brazil's Savannas & Deforest the Amazon 2009

Diversity components in a species-rich area of the Cape Floristic Region.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

Poorly drained flat uplands had areas of pine savannas and small prairies with species-rich ground layers.

Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

Chevron inherited a lawsuit for ecological damages and human health impacts caused by massive oil spills in the species-rich rainforests of eastern Ecuador when it bought the company responsible, Texaco, in 2001.

Janet Ranganathan: Darwin's Lessons for the Extractive Industries 2009