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340 Tropical forests, p.

Subject Destruction of the rain forests

Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, moist savanna, and rocky areas.

Cacao trees thrive in rainforests.

The Council is not even a ghost, as Mr Lamassoure said it is an insult.

It may also be found in tropical lowland moist forest habitats.

The survey in fact covers instances of death from cancer during the period 1950 to 1984 in the locality of 52 American nuclear power stations.

Each year, twenty seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.

Both species are found in the understories of tropical forests, but they both live in different areas.

We are still waiting for a genuine emergency programme for the protection of tropical rain forests.

MUNTINGH (S), rapporteur. (NL) Mr President, yesterday we brought the debate on tropical forests to a positive conclusion.

The Commission needs to act quickly to reverse this destruction.

It is a collection of little partial and inadequate measures and quite omits to mention protecting the indigenous peoples, and it is impossible to protect the forest whilst forgetting the peoples who live there.

There is still Mr Muntingh's report about the tropical forests of Amazonia, which concerns Brazil above all.

Namun sayangnya, baru sedikit negara negara yang memiliki hutan tropis yang telah menyerahkan rencana mereka dan belum satu pun negara negara di Amazon yang telah melakukannya.

Mangrove forests only grow at tropical and subtropical latitudes near the equator because they cannot withstand freezing temperatures.

Parliament is concerning itself with problems of nature throughout the world, in this case those of the tropical forests.

And you've got to use nuts from the rainforests to show that forests are worth more as forests than they are as pasture.

I believe that there remains much for us to do and we must be realistic in the course of action we pursue while retaining some of Mr Muntingh's righteous anger.

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The other promising factor is the inclusion, for the first time, in the draft budget for 1991 of a specific budget heading relating to the tropical forests.

But I share your hope that it will soon be possible for worldwide agreement to be reached on a comprehensive programme to save the tropical rainforests.

MUNTINGH (S), rapporteur. (NL) Mr President, the richest and most varied ecosystem on earth is that of the tropical forests.

Now, if we have evidence, which we now have, that wetlands, forests, unclear monsoon system, the rainforests, behave in this nonlinear way.

(Doc. A3 231 90) by Mrs Santos, drawn up on behalf of the Committee on development and cooperation, on the conservation of tropical forests '.

And if this devastation is to continue as hitherto, the tropical forests will disappear by the end of this century, which would be a tragedy of unimaginable magnitude.

The Council decided in Dublin in June to take action to preserve the tropical rainforests as part of the global measures to protect the environment.

The drilling currently taking place into the geological strata is not linked with those proposals. Turning to surface disposal at the place of origin, I would say that disposal of that kind would result in the widespread dispersal of radioactive waste in what would certainly be less satisfactory conditions and therefore constitutes a practice that the Commission deems less desirable.

B3 1993 90) by Mr Capucho on behalf of the Liberal, Democratic and Reformist Group, to wind up the debate on Oral Question B3 1716 90 on the implementation of the work programme and legislative timetable for 1990 concerning policy priorities for 1991 and the application of the Community code of conduct rejected.

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The problem of third world debt is preventing the developing countries from making resources available for the conservation and restoration of their tropical forests.

All this is splendidly described in the communication from the Commission on the conservation of tropical forests and the rôle of the Community.

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Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.

Tropical forests radioactive waste. As far as German anxiety over storage is concerned, I wish briefly to draw the European Parliament's attention to the following.

(Doc. A3 181 90) by Mr Muntingh, drawn up on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, on measures to protect the ecology of the tropical forests

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.

And so you would expect that the Commission, which is so clearly aware of the dangers, would do what is essential, namely give absolute priority to protecting tropical forests.

Secondly because its cooperation policy does not have the controlled management of tropical forests as its main priority.

The tropical rainforests are the world's greatest reservoir of genetic resources and their destruction may have severe climatic implications.

ARBELOA MURU (S). (ES) Two weeks ago I had a short dream, Mr President, before Saddam Hussein has his a short dream, sad but joyful, bitter sweet.