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WORLD UFO DAY: July 2

6/30/2023

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​WORLD UFO DAY: New Implications
World UFO Day, July 2, was established back in 2001 when a group of UFO enthusiasts, believed to be led by UFO researcher Haktan Akdogan, proposed establishing a day dedicated to the study and exploration of UFOs to raise awareness about their existence and their potential implications.

Image Source: wallpapercave.com/world-ufo-day

The observation day is celebrated by some on June 24, the date of pilot Kenneth Arnold reported what is generally considered to be the first widely reported UFO sighting in the United States. Most people celebrate the event on July 2, the date of the supposed UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

Whichever you choose to celebrate, the day is set aside as a time for people throughout the globe to come together to share experiences and knowledge of this international phenomenon. In the past it has offered an opportunity to consider the government's role in UFO sightings and cover-ups, as well as the impact of UFOs on popular culture and media. But the stated goal is “to raise awareness of ‘the undoubted existence of UFOs’ and to encourage governments to declassify their files on UFO sightings.”


THIS AIN’T YOUR GRANDMA’S UFO
“Poppycock!” you say ‒ or maybe something more colorful ‒ but UFOs are very real.
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Image Credit: CNN
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 edition.cnn.com/2023/china-russia-partnership

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Needless to say, in 2023 many don’t take this observation day very seriously, but the recent incident of the large Chinese spy balloon shot down after moving across the United States this February awakened the general public to a new and different perspective.

“Unidentified” only means that the person viewing the object doesn’t know what it is, not that it isn’t real. Also, it doesn’t mean the object is question is alien, in the sense of “not of this earth.” There is a whole lot of stuff in the atmosphere around earth that we need to be worried about, and not all of it originates in the United States.

UAP IS THE NEW UFO
“It’s a bird!”
“It’s a plane!”
“Nope. It’s a UAP!”

The old term Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was coined in 1953 by writer Donald Keyhoe in an issue of Air Line Pilot. The term became more widespread during the 1950s, after the Roswell Incident, at first in technical literature, but later in popular use.

The less popular term Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) was first used by the United States Air Force in 1953 to replace the term “flying saucers” which had become associated with reports of extraterrestrial spacecraft. To be consistent with the recent changes in the National Defense Authorization Act, NASA now will be calling UAPs Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena instead of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. In the 21st century, the new name is more accurate as the photo shows.
   A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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THE FLYING SAUCER
Humans have been intrigued with the idea of other world civilizations since ancient times, but the idea became a big deal in about the mid-20th century.

The interest is believed to have sparked with a pilot named Kenneth Arnold who was flying a small plane near Mount Rainier in Washington state in June 1947. As he was flying, he spotted a glint or shine that made him think he might be headed for a collision with another aircraft. According to his report, when he looked carefully he saw what he described as nine very odd-shaped vessels flying in formation.

After landing, he reported his sightings to authorities at a nearby airport and eventually talked to some reporters. When a reporter asked Arnold to describe how the things moved, he said, “they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across water.” The journalists came up with a headline about “flying saucers” even though Arnold never uttered the phrase himself. pbs.org/newshour/nation/history-of-ufos

THE ROSWELL INCIDENT

A month later, the Roswell, New Mexico incident brought “flying saucers” again into the public eye. Britannica.com describes the Roswell incident as beginning when rancher W.W. (“Mac”) Brazel, discovered some unusual debris near Roswell. He took it to the Sheriff who informed the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF).

“After collecting the wreckage, the RAAF issued an extraordinary press release that stated that a ‘flying disc’ had been retrieved from a local ranch. The Roswell Daily Record immediately picked up the press release, and on July 8 the story was printed with the headline ‘RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.’”

In less than twelve hours the Air Force changed its story to recovery of a weather balloon carrying a radar target. By then, no one believe the Air Force announcements, and K-Boom!

Cover up! What would you expect? The event fueled a nationwide conspiracy theory involving UFOs and extraterrestrials.

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              Image Source: https://cleverjourneys.com/roswell/                                                                Image Source: bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/
                                                                                                                                                                    
Material gathered  from ruins of crash
In 1994 the Air Force admitted that the recovered material was, in reality, from a U.S. spy balloon, part of top-secret Project Mogul, which sought to detect Soviet nuclear bomb tests.  I'm not sure if anyone believes that either. We will probably never know the truth, no matter what it was.

However, the outcome remains a connection in people’s minds between flying saucers and dead aliens, and unidentified objects in our heavens…i.e. not taken seriously by most. But in this day of space travel, drones, artificial intelligence, space debris, etc. we need to adopt a new attitude.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
So, what is the truth? “Not of this earth” aliens we don’t know about yet, although that possibility has not been discarded by serious scientists or military personnel, but there is a lot we do know about.

Long after the Roswell incident disappeared from the rearview mirror, sighting reports continued to come in from around the world on a consistent basis and there are people and programs who monitor these and identify ‒ at least attempt to identify, using modern technology ‒ the “unidentified.” While most sightings have a logical explanation, if not a positive identification, there are still a few which remain mysteries.

A report released by the Pentagon in 2021 identified over 140 instances that showed inexplicable events in the sky, and Navy test pilots testified they had frequently had encounters with strange craft off the US Coast. theguardian.com/world/whistleblower-ufo

The 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, released by Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence (ODONI), shows 366 UAP incidents newly reported by credible sources.
● 163 were characterized as being sightings of balloons or “balloon-like entities”
● 26 were found to be “unmanned aircraft systems” (drones)
● 6 were attributed to pilots misidentifying airborne clutter, such as plastic bags, which is a constantly growing problem for another discussion.
● 171 UAP reports remain "uncharacterized", as the AARO artfully describes it, and some were found to demonstrate “unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis.”

Government reports fail to mention alien visitors or spaceships from other worlds when referencing the unexplained sightings. Instead, the driving force behind the continued need to examine the phenomena is an understandably serious concern that the sightings could be linked to the intelligence gathering capabilities of foreign countries.

WE ARE NOT ALONE
Humans on earth have a lot of company in their sky in the form of at least a zillion satellites of our own making for many uses including spying, drones, space junk including whole ships down to lost wrenches and gloves, plastic bags, kites, satellites that are ready to fall out of orbit, one moon, and perhaps, among the other traffic, an alien or two.


Finally, government is taking the matter seriously ‒ or at least letting the public know they are taking it seriously ‒ and has appointed an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) to keep an eye on our skies, whether the threats be man-made, natural phenomena or alien.  Removal of some of the stigma of reporting a UAP has resulted in more credible sources making such reports. Following is a small sampling of sightings and incidents.

● 1966: The Muscarello Exeter incident
In 1965, Norman Muscarello, a hitchhiker, was in Exeter, New Hampshire when he saw five strange red flashing lights in the woods. “TV station WMUR recounts, the source of the lights suddenly came towards him at a frightening speed. Muscarello dove into a ditch to avoid being hit before flagging down a motorist. The police investigated the area, and they, too, saw the same aircraft with the same bright red lights speed off out of sight. Today, the event is celebrated with a yearly Exeter UFO Festival. This sound pretty iffy to me. Any excuse for a party! 

● 1978: Frederick Valentich Disappearance
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Frederick Valentich, an Australian pilot, disappeared on 10-21-1978 while he was flying a Cessna 182L over the Bass Strait. He encountered something he couldn’t identify and notified air control that there was a strange vessel the likes of which he had never seen before, circling him, as if taunting him. “It is hovering and it is not an aircraft,” he said in his communication.
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Image Source: sott.net/article/Frederick-Valentich
​Then air control lost contact and Valentich was never heard from or seen again. This sighting was investigated but this remains one of those unexplained events. 

● 1986: Japanese Airlines Flight 1628
On November 17, 1986 Japan Airlines cargo flight 1628 took off from Paris headed for Japan, transporting a cargo of Beaujolais wine.

Over Alaska the Japanese crew witnessed two unidentified objects to their left. “These abruptly rose from below and closed in to escort their aircraft. Each had two rectangular arrays of what appeared to be glowing nozzles or thrusters, though their bodies remained obscured by darkness. When closest, the aircraft's cabin was lit up and the Japanese captain could feel their heat on his face.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_1628

After the two craft departed, a larger third aircraft appeared and followed. The pilot reported the incident to the Anchorage Air Traffic Control who requested an incoming United Airlines flight to confirm the unidentified traffic, but when it and a military craft sighted JAL 1628, no other craft was visible. The sighting lasted 50 minutes. The Japanese aircraft made an emergency landing at Anchorage. The ground crew there corroborated the sighting the third craft. A three-month FAA investigation of the incident ascribed the sighting to a “split radar image.” However, the sighting and report findings have been controversial ever since.

● 2004: The USS Nimitz Encounter (San Diego, CA)
On November 14, 2004, the USS Princeton, part of the USS Nimitz carrier strike group, encountered an unknown craft on radar 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. The crew had been tracking objects that appeared at 80,000 feet and then plummeted to hover right above the Pacific Ocean. It had been a routine operation but soon emerged as one of the best documented UFO sightings of the 21s century.

“When two FA-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived in the area, they first saw what appeared to be churning water, with a shadow of an oval shape underneath the surface. Then, in a few moments, a white Tic Tac-shaped object appeared above the water. It had no visible markings to indicate an engine, wings or windows, and infrared monitors didn't reveal any exhaust. When an attempt was made to intercept the craft, it accelerated away, reappearing on radar 60 miles away. It moved three times the speed of sound and more than twice the speed of the fighter jets.” history.com/news/ufo-sightings-credible-modern 

At the time, the Navy did little to investigate the incident, and although a lot of military personnel knew about it, it was “swept under the rug.” At least there is no government explanation of the event for public consumption.

● 2006: O’Hare International Airport
While preparing for Flight 446 to depart from Chicago, twelve United Airlines employees ‒ and a few witnesses outside the airport ‒ noticed a dark grey metallic craft hovering over gate C17 at around 4:15 pm.
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: trueactivist.com/legitimate-ufo-sightings

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Witnesses said the object hovered for about five minutes, then accelerated upward where it broke a hole in the clouds‒ enough that pilots and mechanics could see the blue sky. The news report became the most-read story on The Chicago Tribune’s website to that date and made international news. However, because the UFO was not seen on radar, the FAA called it a “weather phenomenon” and declined to investigate.

● 2019: California

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​The Pentagon confirmed that the footage -- which shows three pyramid-shaped objects hovering over the USS Russell -- was authentic and originated with a U.S. Navy pilot. However, the U.S. Government has not provided an explanation for these objects. However, it's plausible that these UFOs are just planes.

     Image Credit: Salvatore Giusa
    Image Source:
salvatoregiusa24.blogspot.com

● 2021: New Mexico
The pilot of American Airlines flight 2292 from Ohio to Arizona reported “a long cylindrical object” flying over his plane. American Airlines and the FAA confirmed that the report was genuine but had no further information. The FAA reported they didn’t see any object on their radarscopes. There were no military tests being conducted in the area at the time. According to MetaBunk, this "missile type of thing" was most likely a Leer jet.

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● 2021: Across the Eastern United States
Sightings of a strange string of lights in the night sky were reported by the hundreds of people from Texas to Wisconsin during the first week of May 2021.        Image Source: youtube.com/watch?v=pU0YRBUUwEc 

According to the press officer for the American Astronomical Society, Dr. Richard Fienberg, these
objects are Starlink Satellites. He told Associated 
Press that, "The way you can tell they are Starlink satellites is they are like a string of pearls, these lights travelling in the same basic orbit, one right after the other." 

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Many sightings are attributed to Elon Musk’s satellite internet services which originate from single geostationary satellites that orbit the planet at 35,786 km. Starlink is a constellation of thousands of satellites that orbit the planet much closer to Earth, at about 550km, and cover the entire globe.  

     A Starlink Satellite -      Image Source: teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-satellite

● 2021 - New Jersey
On July 14, 2021, about a quarter after midnight, drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike were awed by the sight of strange orange-and-yellow lights in a V formation over the Arthur Kill Waterway.

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​Among witnesses were members of the Carteret Police Department. The air traffic controllers denied that an airplane or space flight could cause such mysterious lights. However, the New York Strange Phenomena Investigators received the FAA radar data that indicated the UFO sightings. To date I could find official identification of the source.
Image source: ufo-sightings-weekly.blogspot.com/

HOW TO CELEBRATE THE DAY
If you are looking for an excuse, or opportunity, to go slip off...

● to a conference and be challenged by serious discussion about UAPs… 
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● to have a drink with a bunch of friends....
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WORLD UFO DAY IS AVAILABLE!
JUST SAYIN’!
Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/paranormal/history-of-ufos
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft
https://www.rd.com/list/most-chilling-ufo-sightings/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nasa-panel-hold-first-public-meeting-ufo-study-ahead-report-2023-05-31/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Roswell-incident
https://trueactivist.com/the-most-recent-legitimate-ufo-sightings-t2/19/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-brief-cultural-history-of-ufos-from-secret-soviet-weapons-to-alien-visitors
https://cleverjourneys.com/2021/05/28/10-most-interesting-facts-about-ufo-crash-from-roswell/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU0YRBUUwEc
https://www.starlink.com/technology
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-upgrade-more-bandwidth-more-beams/
Photos only
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/esp_exopolitics_ZZZZI.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrW0PKahSXo
https://www.sott.net/article/321640-Frederick-Valentich-disappearance-Inspiration-for-new-TV-drama-in-Australia
https://salvatoregiusa24.blogspot.com/2021/04/la-us-navy-fa-trapelare-il-filmato-di.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/star-wars-celebration-mos-eisley-cantina-2015-4
https://www.iheart.com/content/2019-09-17-navy-confirms-ufo-videos-show-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Cargo_Flight_1628_incidenthttps:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Cargo_Flight_1628_incident
https://www.narcap.org/blog/definition-of-uap#:~:text=A%20simple%20review%20of%20the%20internet%20archives%20will,term%20%E2%80%9CUAP%E2%80%9D%20has%20been%20in%20use%20ever%20since.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-team-begins-study-of-ufos-180980997/#:~:text=A%20team%20of%20NASA%20researchers%20has%20just%20begun,in%20mid-2023%2C%20according%20to%20a%20statement%20from%20NASA.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/teacher-reveals-creepy-details-of-aussie-ufo-sighting-in-rare-audio/news-story/134d4d8c78eba477b460e97241fb26bb
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/#:~:text=The%20Department%20of%20Defense%20established%20the%20UAPTF%20to,potentially%20pose%20a%20threat%20to%20U.S.%20national%20secur
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/02/china/china-russia-partnership-one-year-blinken-intl-hnk-mic/index.html?bt_ee=A1Wn4z+srS/F14KQN9/4BbbH4TBmeq7P
https://www.history.com/news/ufo-sightings-credible-modern#The%20Lights%20Above%20The%20New%20Jersey%20Turnpike
https://www.bdebate.org/en/news/international-center-scientific-debate-becomes-bdebate-boost-projection-its-international
 
 
 
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HAPPY RAINFOREST DAY: June 22

6/4/2023

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WORLD RAINFOREST DAY
On June 22 every year the world sets aside this day to learn about the rainforests and to acknowledge their importance.

According to Nationaltoday.com, “World Rainforest Day aims to encourage people to learn more about rainforests and join efforts to protect and preserve these forests for generations to come. Rainforests have been disappearing and taking the rich diversity of flora and fauna with them because of increasing deforestation and climate change. World Rainforest Day was instituted to halt this disappearance by reminding people of the importance of rainforests.”

WHAT IS A RAINFOREST?
A rainforest is a region with a thick, evergreen canopy of tall trees in areas of constant precipitation. The canopy is a stratum of branches and leaves on the highest trees. The canopy can be about 100 feet above the ground or more, and is not the location where most plants and animals live.
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LAYERS OF THE RAINFOREST 
Emergent layer ► 


The Canopy ► 
The Understory ►

The Forest Floor ► 
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In many places in a rainforest the sunlight does not reach the ground, which is overgrown with a tangled growth of vines, shrubs, and small trees, often called jungles when the leaf canopy is lost or thinned. This is where we find most of the plant and animal species of the rainforest.

Tropical rainforests have an annual precipitation of between 98 inches (over 8 feet) and 177 inches (14 feet 9 inches) per year but it isn’t seasonal, but year round. Precipitation varies for temperate rainforests where the rainfall is seasonal.

Scientists agree that nearly half of the Earth’s plants and animals live in rainforests. Many of them are vulnerable and can survive only in this habitat.

​WHERE ARE RAINFORESTS LOCATED?
Rainforests are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. However, some are temperate rainforests 
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Rainforests of the World
Image Source: https://scienceworldbiomes.weebly.com/tropical-rainforest.html
Tropical rainforests are located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, typically between 10°N and 10°S of the Equator, where temperatures stay near 82°F throughout the year.

Temperate rainforests are located in temperate regions between the tropics and the poles with high rainfall of more than 55 inches per year and average temperatures between 39 and 54°F. These rainforests may receive moisture from fog and snow as well. While tropical rainforests have little differentiation between seasons, temperate rainforests have seasonal variations.

​They can exist in very small areas, if the environment is correct. When visiting Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, I learned that the plume of spray from the waterfall, which is over a mile wide on the Zambezi River, creates a small rainforest of about 600 acres growing alongside and opposite the falls.
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Rainforest along the rim opposite the falls
Image Source: commons.wikimedia.org/Victoria,_Zambia
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RAINFORESTS?
In the past, it was generally believed the most important factor about rainforests was their contribution to the world’s oxygen supply (sometimes called “turn over”). Today, while there stills seems to be general agreement among scientists that the rainforests are of importance to the world, there is a definite split between those experts who believe in a much higher contribution of the world’s oxygen generated by rainforests than others.

Emozzy.com indicates that, “Rainforests are responsible for 28 percent of the planet’s turnover, sometimes misnamed oxygen production, [4%] by managing them through carbon dioxide photosynthesis and breathing.”
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However, Sarah Sambolich, NBC Naturalist, writing for a 2014 publication in Newportbay.org, states, “There is a misconception that the rainforests contribute significantly to the oxygen we breathe. In reality, the animals and microscopic life living in the rainforest consume most of the oxygen. As a result, the net production of oxygen by the rainforest or any forest is actually close to zero.” newportbay.org/ask-a-naturalist

She goes on to point out that the belief that 20% of the Earth’s oxygen supply is contributed by rainforests is incorrect and notes that the Amazon rainforests has been plagued by fires that reduce the oxygen supply for the ecosystem.

One of the most important worldwide functions is the rainforest’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and increase local humidity. Rainforests play an important role in stabilizing the climate and maintaining the water cycle. 

On a more local scale, they also protect against flood, drought, and erosion, and are a resource for food, medicine, and other products.

THE BIGGEST TROPICAL RAINFORESTS

Forest of the Amazon (South America)
Size:               
 2,250,000 square miles 
Type:                   Tropical
Location:         Brazil (60% of forest), Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia,
                         Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
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Image Source: https://emozzy.com/Amazon/

The Republic of Congo (Africa)
Size:                    687,262 square miles
Type:                   Tropical
Location:             Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central
                            African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea
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African forest elephant in Lekoli River, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of the Congo.
Image Credit:  Photo / Getty
Image Source: nzherald.co.nz/world/the-congo-rainforest
Australiasia Region
Size:                    About 303,000 square miles
Type:                  Tropical
Location:           
Australiasia is a bit confusing. It is billed as the third largest rainforest, but exactly what area it includes depends on the source you are using.
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One group of references describe it as non-contiguous rainforests in a region incorporating New Guinea, Northeastern Australia and strings of smaller islands that used to be connected to one another during the Ice Age. One variation to the non-contiguous group also indicated New Zealand.


The other definition is a contiguous rainforest on the island of New Guinea, which is split into two territories: The eastern half is part of Papua New Guinea, and the western half is part of Indonesia. This island covers about 303,000 square miles.
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Image Source: mapquest.com/
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The Daintree Rainforest (approximvately 463 square miles in size)  on the north-east coast of Australia is part of the world’s oldest continually surviving tropical rainforest. It is thought to be 6-10 times older than those found in the protected areas of the Amazon and have stood for 150 million years.

The ecosystems of the Daintree Rainforest are some of the most complex on Earth. Its plant diversity and structural complexity is unrivalled on the arid Australian continent.
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Unfortunately, the UNESCO protected area does not extend to all of the Daintree with residential development, climate change and invasive plants and species all a threat.

Sundaland Rainforest
Size:                    197,000 square miles
Type:                   Tropical
Location:            Malay Peninsula on mainland Southeast Asia and the nearby islands
                            of Sumatra, Java and Borneo. It spans several countries: Indonesia,

                            Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand and Singapore.

Sundaland (also called Sundaica or the Sundaic region) probably will not be show on your home atlas. It comprises the portion of South-eastern Asia which was a larger land mass for the last 2.6 million years during ages when sea levels were lower. It includes Bali, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra in Indonesia, and their surrounding islands.
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 ​Image Source: sites.google.com/a/lincoln.edu.gh                           Image Source: novasutras.org/sundaland/
Between 2002 and 2019, Sundaland lost the largest share of the world’s primary forest cover. Borneo has lost 15% of those forests, and Sumatra has lost 25%.

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WHAT IS CAUSING THE LOSS OF THE RAINFORESTS?
The loss of almost every habitat in the world is primarily due to the growth of the human population and our lack of environmental conservation in the process of growth. In the past we might have written that last off to ignorance but that it no longer an excuse.

The main causes of loss of rainforest are:

● Agriculture, including unsustainable agriculture and pastoral farming.

●Logging, including illegal logging and logging for valuable trees like mahogany.
 
●Mining, including mining for natural resources such as iron ore, copper, tin, aluminium, manganese and gold.
 
● Industrial development.

● Large dams
 
It is not hard to see where and why the conflicts occur. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

JUST SAYIN’ !
Sources:

https://nationaltoday.com/world-rainforest-day/
https://www.bioexplorer.net/world-rainforests.html/#11_Khao_Sok_National_Park_Asia
https://www.livescience.com/largest-rainforests-in-the-world#New%20Guinea%20Rainforest
​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland
https://scienceworldbiomes.weebly.com/tropical-rainforest.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankton-breathe-freely/

https://emozzy.com/top-10-largest-and-popular-rainforests-in-the-world/#:~:text=Top%2010%20Largest%20Rainforests%20in%20the%20World%201,8%208.%20The%20Island%20of%20Borneo%20More%20items

https://www.bioexplorer.net/world-rainforests.html/#:~:text=Top%2014%20Rainforests%20in%20the%20world%201.%20Pacific,Congo%20Rainforest%20%28Africa%29%208.%20Sapo%20National%20Park%20%28Africa%29

https://www.atlasandboots.com/travel-blog/largest-rainforests-in-the-world/#:~:text=The%20largest%20rainforests%20in%20the%20world%201%201.,Forests%20Size%3A%20222%2C100%20km%202%20...%20More%20items

PHOTOS
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