Rainforest
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They have no smell at all, and it's only the wonderful bacteria growing on the
rainforest
of hair that actually produces the smells that we know and love.
They make new cell phones like kids in Palo Alto make websites, and so there's a
rainforest
of innovation going on in the cell phone.
One of them was a
rainforest
ecologist.
And in a place where we thought no life at all, we find more life, we think, and diversity and density than the tropical rainforest, which tells us that we don't know much about this planet at all.
So now, for example, think of the
rainforest.
That's a scientist who works in the
rainforest
to document how people use local plants.
The
rainforest
has been called the greatest expression of life on Earth.
We've done this now with over 30 tribes, mapped, managed and increased protection of over 70 million acres of ancestral
rainforest.
(Rainforest
noises) In the summer of 2011, as a tourist, I visited the rainforests of Borneo for the very first time, and as you might imagine, it was the overwhelming sounds of the forest that struck me the most.
It's really tempting, as an engineer, always to come up with a high-tech, super-crazy high-tech solution, but in fact, you're in the
rainforest.
But let's take a moment to talk about saving the rainforest, because it's something that we've definitely all heard about forever.
People in my generation have heard about saving the
rainforest
since we were kids, and it seems that the message has never changed: We've got to save the rainforest, it's super urgent, this many football fields have been destroyed yesterday.
and yet here we are today, about half of the
rainforest
remains, and we have potentially more urgent problems like climate change.
Also, according to Interpol, as much as 90 percent of the logging that takes place in the
rainforest
is illegal logging, like the illegal logging that we saw.
Today, there are six species left living in the
rainforest
canopies of Central and South America.
In Indonesia, an amount of virgin
rainforest
was cleared totaling the size of approximately Ireland, between 2000 and 2012.
He was a horse logger, and he used to selectively cut cedar poles from the inland
rainforest.
In July of 1911, a 35-year-old Yale graduate and professor set out from his
rainforest
camp with his team.
He saw rising from the dense
rainforest
foliage this incredible interlocking maze of structures built of granite, beautifully put together.
Now, I don't want you to get the impression that the blockchain is the solution to everything, even though the media has said that it's going to end world poverty, it's also going to solve the counterfeit drug problem and potentially save the
rainforest.
Although the sounds are inaudible above water depending on where you are and the time of year, the underwater soundscape can be as noisy as any jungle or
rainforest.
At the height of the crisis, when we were told that 1.4 million people could be infected, when we were told that most of them would die, when we had nearly lost all hope, I remember standing with a group of health workers in the
rainforest
where an outbreak had just happened.
This overview shows deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia immediately adjacent to untouched tracts of
rainforest.
Deforestation in the country has primarily been driven by the expansion of mechanized agriculture and cattle ranching, so as the country tries to meet the demand of its growing population and feed them, the sacrificial destruction of its
rainforest
has taken place to do so.
It is estimated that the country lost 4.5 million acres of
rainforest
in one decade alone from 2000 until 2010.
You're talking about biodensities and biodiversity, again, higher than the
rainforest
that just springs back to life.
Redwood
rainforest
is incredibly difficult to move through, and even today, individual trees are being discovered that have never been seen before, including, in the summer of 2006, Hyperion, the world's tallest tree.
The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval
rainforest
east of the Mississippi River.
Jodi Lomask, and her wonderful troupe Capacitor, joined me in the canopy in my
rainforest
site in Costa Rica.
I just did the song to reconnect us to the spirit of the
rainforest.
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