A walk in a tropical rainforest - tropical rainforest plants and sights
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Tropical Rainforest Walk
Experience a walk in the tropical rainforest in D'Angular National Park, Mount Glorious. This rain forest is 20 minutes drive from the city of Brisbane. This lens is designed to enable you to feel as if you are a part of the tropical rainforest biome, seeing the rainforest plants close up, experiencing the sights and imagined smells and sounds, as I did on my walk.
(Rainforest Walk Photos - Copyright worldwide 2008 - Ron Passfield)
(Rainforest Walk Photos - Copyright worldwide 2008 - Ron Passfield)
How to Take This Rainforest Walk
My suggestion is that you view the following one minute video of the images in my lens first.
This will give you a depth and perspective that the still photos cannot give you. You will then see the photos in a new light. After viewing the video, take a slow stroll through my rainforest lens ... and imagine the sights, sounds and smells of a living rainforest.
If you double click the video image you will be taken to YouTube where you will see the full sized video (don't forget to return if you do).
This video was produced from the images in this lens using:
Animoto - turn digital photos into videos
This will give you a depth and perspective that the still photos cannot give you. You will then see the photos in a new light. After viewing the video, take a slow stroll through my rainforest lens ... and imagine the sights, sounds and smells of a living rainforest.
If you double click the video image you will be taken to YouTube where you will see the full sized video (don't forget to return if you do).
This video was produced from the images in this lens using:
Animoto - turn digital photos into videos
Open Rainforest Plants
Sunshine streaming through rainforest palms and tall trees
Tropical Rainforest
Trees and ferns
Rainforest Canopy
Rainforest Roots - being grounded
Rainforest Floor
Rainforest Survival
Rainforest Brown Turf Oak
Rainforest Climate
Open Tropical Rainforest
Open Forest
Rainforest Path
Tropical Rainforest Plants
Tropical Rainforest Slope
Tropical Rainforest Biome
Rainforest Valley
Rainforest Biome
Rainforest Waterfall
(Drought affected)
Rainforest Trickle
Rainforest Rock Wall
Rainforest Rock Pool
Feeding the rainforest waterfall in wet weather
Rainforest Water
Rainforest Moss
Rainforest Ecology
Rainforest Slopes
Rainforest Mist Clearing
After a drizzly wet early morning
Rainforest Trees
...and intertwining vines.
“Rainforest Rescue
- Save Us”
What is a Biome?
Here's the Wikipedia definition:
A biome is a climatically and geographically defined area of ecologically similar communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, often referred to as ecosystems. Biomes are defined based on factors such as plant structures (such as trees, shrubs, and grasses), leaf types (such as broadleaf and needleleaf), plant spacing (forest, woodland, savanna), and climate. Unlike ecozones, biomes are not defined by genetic, taxonomic, or historical similarities. Biomes are often identified with particular patterns of ecological succession and climax vegetation...
For more information, visit Wikipedia
A biome is a climatically and geographically defined area of ecologically similar communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, often referred to as ecosystems. Biomes are defined based on factors such as plant structures (such as trees, shrubs, and grasses), leaf types (such as broadleaf and needleleaf), plant spacing (forest, woodland, savanna), and climate. Unlike ecozones, biomes are not defined by genetic, taxonomic, or historical similarities. Biomes are often identified with particular patterns of ecological succession and climax vegetation...
For more information, visit Wikipedia
Daintree Rainforest Conservation
A short film highlighting the value of the vast biodiversity found in the Daintree rainforest. The film intends to educate people of the threat this remaining Australian rainforest faces from property development and the projects undertaken by Rainforest Rescue in order to protect this vital ecological resource. (Includes great Aussie conservation song).
Video promotes the work of Rainforest Rescue
Video promotes the work of Rainforest Rescue
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Rainforest Rescue Australia - Blog Feed
Rainforest Rescue is a not for profit organization that has been protecting and restoring rainforests in Australia and internationally since 1998 by providing opportunities for individuals and businesses to Protect Rainforests Forever. Our projects re-establish rainforests through planting, maintenance and restoration programs, as well as purchasing and protecting high conservation value rainforest and preserving its biodiversity.
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Blog Posts about Rainforests from Google
Covering posts that address rain forest animals, rainforest destruction, amazon rainforest, rainforest plants, rainforest biomes, rainforest facts and rainforest food web.
- Makeup of rain forest may have been altered by farmers
- Bantu farmers may have played a role in transforming the Central African rain forest into drier grasslands, French scientists say. File photo of a fisherman on the Congo River. (Associated Press) By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Deforestation and ...
- 'The River' Star Bruce Greenwood Brings A Horror Story To The Jungle
- What do you get when you set a paranormal horror story in the middle of the rainforest? ABC's "The River," which has the perfect elements for an enjoyably eerie series. Co-created by "Paranormal Activity" writer Oren Peli, "The River" centers on a ...
- Forestry Commission lifts red flag fire alert
- COLUMBIA, SC (AP, WACH) -- Rain is moving through South Carolina and the state forestry commission has lifted a red flag fire alert that had been in effect since last weekend. The alert lifted Tuesday had advised landowners to hold off on any outside ...
- Agarwood chopped even as CM checks on illegal logging site
- By JOSEPHINE JALLEH GEORGE TOWN: A gaharu (agar-wood) tree was felled in the rain-forest behind the Penang Rifle Club just three hours before Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng went on an inspection near the Penang Botanic Gardens.
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Resources on tropical forests
- Florida Palm Tress
- Florida Palm Trees offers advice and great tips that will help you transform your garden into a tropical paradise. Learn all about how to choose and grow palm trees.
- World Rainforest Information Portal
- Information about the importance of rainforests and issues with destruction of rainforests with global links and resources.
- Rainforest Facts
- Explains the wealth, biodiversity and healing powers of rainforests and discusses the threats to their conservation.
- Rainforests for kids
- Great resources for kids and teachers with photos articles, and rainforest characters.
- Rainforest at Night - Virtual World
- After dark in Borneo, new sights, sounds and smells emerge that are not seen, heard or smelt during the day. Take a virtual tour...
- Where are the rainforests?
- This site shows the location of the world's tropical rainforests. Rainforests cover only a small part of the earth's surface - about 6%, yet they are home to over half the species of plants and animals in the world.
- Tropical Rainforests - North Queensland
- North-eastern Australia is very diverse because it is jam packed full of very close, but very different, ecosystems and their smaller vegetation communities; coral reefs, sea grass communities, mangroves, beaches, rocky shores, wet schlerophyll forest, tropical open forests and woodlands. Identifies flora and fauna and rainforest sights.
- Amazon Interactive
- Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.
- Mariri Magazine - The Voice of the Forst
- Mariri Magazine is a journal about the rainforest for people who love the rainforest.
- Passport to the Rainforest
- Follow in Darwin's footsteps, courtesy of PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE, to the heart of our planet's largest rainforest, guided by some of the world's leading biologists. Explore "the greatest expression of life" so far discovered in all the Universe, via a project that uses video, real-time interactions, the Internet and hands-on science activities - PASSPORT TO THE RAINFOREST.
- Save the Rainforests
- Rainforests come in a variety of types; tropical and temperate rainforests, cloud forest, lowland rainforest, hill slope rainforest all of which can be either primary or secondary in nature. One thing all these types of rainforest have in common is that they are all in decline. Offers ways to save the rainforests.
- Mongabay.com - Conserving rainforests
- Mongabay.com seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics, and finance on conservation and development
- Willie Smits Restores a Rainforest for Orangutans
- By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.
- Trans-boundary Rainforest Park will be a symbol of peace and stability
- The Presidents of Sierra Leone and Liberia met on 15 May 2009 in the Gola Forest, Sierra Leone, to announce the establishment of a new Trans-boundary Peace Park, to protect one of the largest remaining blocks of intact forest in the Upper Guinea Area of West Africa.
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booklover2
Jan 24, 2012 @ 4:27 am | delete
- Great squidoo lens here! Thanks and lets all of us try to preserve the forest.
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RawBill
Nov 28, 2011 @ 7:59 pm | delete
- I have never been to this particular rainforest before. I am a Gold Coaster so I get to the Gold Coast Hinterland rainforests fairly regularly. I love the hinterland and all that these natural wonders have to offer. We donate every month to Rainforest Rescue as well. We love what they are doing up north.
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SidneyMorgan
Nov 27, 2011 @ 10:05 pm | delete
- One of the best Lens on Squidoo. This is really informative lens, it helped me to increase my knowledge about great places in danger.
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baumchen
Nov 3, 2011 @ 7:23 am | delete
- Love the "Rainforest Rock Pool" picture. Please help save the rainforest. I want my grandchildren to be able to see it....
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franstan
Oct 6, 2011 @ 8:30 am | delete
- This lens is perfect - wonderful photos. Blessed
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SmartChica
Sep 14, 2011 @ 4:11 pm | delete
- Lovely visual trip. Wish I could be there in person.
This lens blessed by a Squid Angel.
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flipflopnana
May 29, 2011 @ 6:39 am | delete
- Thanks so much for the beautiful relaxing walk and helping to make more people aware of the wonderful places we are in danger losing.
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bamajaws
Apr 2, 2011 @ 6:04 pm | delete
- Ron-My wife and I have the priviledge of visiting Australia last April(2010). We flew into Brisbane. We spent two weeks in Cleveland. We visited the Gold Coast, and a great
wildlife preserve. Great Lens.
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ronpass
Apr 2, 2011 @ 7:47 pm | delete
- I hope you got to Stradbroke Island just 20 minutes by water taxi from Cleveland - one of my favorite holiday places:
http://www.squidoo.com/StradbrokeIsland
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Mar 31, 2011 @ 8:19 am | delete
- Nice Squidoo. Very interesting and cool. Chris
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