21.   The report also called for support for employment promotion policies in tropical forest countries, and for improved access to industrial markets for their exports.

22.   However, other observers attributed the sharp reduction in rainfall to the accelerated destruction of tropical forests.

23.   The conference also agreed on a Statement of Forest Principles, aimed particularly at limiting the destruction of tropical forests.

24.   The absence of the rigours of an annual drought in tropical forest is correlated with high species-richness of both forests and within individual genera of plants.

25.   The ruling body of the International Tropical Timber Organisation has given its approval to the continued logging of key tropical forests in Malaysia and the Amazon.

26.   American biologists have called for the establishment of a network of trained amateurs drawn from local populations to help tap potential medical resources of tropical forests.

27.   The tropical forest policies of the World Bank have been criticized by its own researchers.

28.   There is little hope of slowing the destruction of tropical forests until they do he said.

29.   It will be based on a Charter agreed at the meeting, which includes a call for a new approach to conservation and development in tropical forests.

30.   Peru has the seventh largest tropical forest mass in the world.