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THE FORGOTTEN RAINFORESTS:
TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD
DOMINICK A. DELLASALA, PH.D.
IslandPress.org/dellasala J. Schoen
www.geosinstitute.org
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National Geographic
TROPICAL RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD
National Geographic
Corbis
Corbis
Equator
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ANNUAL PRECIP AVERAGE ANNUAL TEMP8 feet
WET SUMMERS
NCAR
tropical
borealtemperate
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INTRODUCING TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS
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HOW MUCH AND WHERE?
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TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFOREST PLANETARY TOUR
Tim Greyhavens Tim Greyhavens
John Schoen
Elysa Resort
Craig Pettitt
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RAINFORESTS OF HOME:
ALASKA TO REDWOODS
J. Schoen
Tim GreyhavensTim Greyhavens
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TONGASS OLD GROWTH CHAMPIONS
John Schoen
Corbis Corbis Corbis Corbis
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John Schoen
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J. Schoen
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Roads Built in the Tongass National Forest Region
Another 400,000 acres could be logged this century
Roadless areas are vital
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CANADA’S GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST
Tim Greyhavens
~ Globally unique relatively intact system¼ of word’s temperate rainforests
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Ian McAllister
SALMON DRIVEN RAINFOREST
Corbis
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Tim Greyhavens
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GREENPEACE
$120 million campaign boosted protection levels up to ~35% Scientists recommend 40-70% protection
CONSERVATION SUCCESS STORY?
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OLYMPICS TO REDWOODS:
“LAND OF THE GIANTS”
Corbis
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RAINFORESTS HELP STABILIZE GLOBAL CLIMATE
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TOP TEN CARBON-STORING NATIONAL FORESTS
The Wilderness Society
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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
Corbis
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CO2 Equivalent Stored byTop 10 National Forests
CO2 Equivalent in One Year’s U.S. Fossil Fuel Use9.8
billion
metrictons
5.8
billion
metrictons ~2 x total annual emissions
The Wilderness Society
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DEFORESTATION = GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTION
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INTERIOR WET BELT RAINFORESTS
CraigPettitt
CorbisCorbis CorbisElysa Resort
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LICHENS DRIVE RAINFOREST FOOD WEBS
Corbis
Corbis
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Only ~4.5% protected Caribou in peril: 2450 in 1997, 1900 in 2001
LICHEN-CARIBOU RAINFOREST IN TROUBLE
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ANCIENT VALDIVIA RAINFOREST
Daniel Gomez
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Darwin’s toad
Monito del monte
Magellanic woodpecker
Corbis
Rufous-legged owl
VALDIVIA’S WILDLIFE
>60% amphibians/reptiles are found nowhere else
30% of birds endemic
20% of freshwater fish endemic
Old-growth dependent species
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40% of rainforests gone! Tierra Chilean - Mitsubishi
Corbis
trees > 3,000 years!
Aaron Sanger
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RUSSIAN FAR EAST & INLAND SOUTHERN SIBERIA
~450 ~29 Nearly gone
Victor Yudin
P. Krestov
Corbis
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JAPAN’S RAINFOREST ARE UNIQUE: FEW REMAIN
Corbis
Corbis
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AUSTRALASIA – SIZE MATTERS!
Corbis
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SOUTH AFRICA HAS RAINFOREST PRIMATES
AND “ELEPHANTS”
Corbis
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FORGOTTEN RAINFOREST THREAT LEVELS*
Redwoods, Europe, Japan & Korea
PNW, Inland BC, Russia, Chile, E. Canada
Great Bear, South Africa, Australia
New Zealand
* Logging, roads, climate change, dams, mining, grazing, exotics, international treaties
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THE FORGOTTEN RAINFORESTS VISION
Rainforests are greater than sum-of-their parts
Old forests are pivotal to climate stability globally –climate summit, international year of forests
President Obama – protecting old forests = climate change insurance
We must not let these forests become the forgottenrainforests
Corbis
www.geosinstitute.org
Craig Pettitt
Tim Greyhavens