51.   However, millions of acres of tropical forests are being destroyed every year for cattle ranches, agriculture, mining, fuel, home building and timber export.

52.   If we make investments to protect tropical forests today, we can avoid paying ransom for forest resources tomorrow.

53.   In a tropical forest, trees and parasites like Spanish moss collectively retain nutrients in a way that neither the tree nor the parasite could do alone.

54.   In much of the West Indies, tropical forests are quickly disappearing.

55.   In search of firewood and arable land, the refugees have encroached on the tropical forests.

56.   Magnified tea leaves suggest an ancient tropical forest of gnarled tree limbs.

57.   Martin guesses that the common ancestor was small, nocturnal and dwelled in tropical forest trees.

58.   Moist tropical forests become prone to burning when the leaf litter and undergrowth dries up after unusually long periods of drought, and fire spreads from surrounding grasslands.

59.   On islands that bore the brunt of the storm, beaches, tropical forests, golf courses and nature reserves were also damaged.

60.   Our primate cousins are particularly vulnerable because they depend on shrinking tropical forests and endangered ecosystems for foraging.