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Rain Forest
Also Rainforest.
Dense tropical and subtropical forests, where sunlight hardly penetrates the lush growth.
Rain forests occur in a band around the Earth between the Tropic of Capricorn (about 23° S. latitude) and the Tropic of Cancer (about 23° N. latitude). Some modern accounts restrict jungles to about 20° S. and 30° N. latitude. The major continental jungles are found in Central America and the northern half of South America, in the central two thirds of Africa, and in India and Southeast Asia.
The East Indies, particularly Sumatra, Borneo, and New Guinea have significant jungle regions. So also do parts of northern Australia, the Philippines, most of Madagascar, and the West Indies. Parts of the northwestern United States and of Florida qualify as temperate rain forest areas.
Rain forests have a myriad of unknown and little known plants and insects, from which a great number of new lifesaving medicines and compounds could be discovered and extracted. Unfortunately, at the rate that rain forest is disappearing worldwide, many of these medicines and compounds may never be discovered.
See Amazonian Deforestation and Climate, Animals of the Rain Forest, Atlas of Rain Forests (Atlases Series), Borneo Rain Forest, Canopy Crossing: A Story of an Atlantic Rainforest, Life in the Rainforest: Plants, Animals, and People (Discovery Readers), Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests, Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers, Rainforests of the World: Water, Fire, Earth & Air, The Amazon Rain Forest and Its People, The Healing Forest: Medicinal And Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia, Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia, Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, The Chakra Store, Casting Black Magic Spells, Commanding Spirits, The Tarot Store, Divination & Scrying Tools and Supplies and The Pyramid Collection.
Sources: Article is scheduled to be reviewed.
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