Halfway through comes tropical forest that looks eerily similar to the pine copses of Tahoe.
Tropical forest is wetter and usually supports only knee-high fires that spread slowly through the understorey.
The management of coastal ecosystems can supplement efforts to reduce emissions from tropical forest degradation.
Brazil, home of the world's largest expanse of tropical forest, has also been wary of the idea.
The water turns to spray before it reaches the foot of the mountain and provides moisture to the tropical forest.
One million trees will be planted in Uganda to sustain an area of tropical forest in Africa the size of Wales.
Rio is one of the few cities in the world that has a tropical forest reserve in the middle of it.
"Tropical forest deforestation amounts to as much carbon emissions as the world's transport - people don't realize that, " said Ms Scrase.
Lorises, which are nocturnal and carnivorous primates, are native to parts of South Asia and South East Asia, and live in tropical forest areas.
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The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has added its support to a project to sustain an area of African tropical forest the size of Wales.
The Garajonay National Park is an extremely rare example of the humid sub-tropical forest that covered most of Europe before the arrival of man.
Consider the absurdity of a city in the middle of the world's biggest tropical forest having to ship in a large proportion of its fruit and vegetables.
Yet off the highway, one quickly passes through cinderblock villages through open fields and into El Yunque, the tropical forest that dominates the eastern part of the island.
This is the third call this morning about the body of a man lying at the entrance of Habitation LeClerc, a seven-acre tropical forest in the sprawling neighborhood of Martissant.
Unlike other temples at Angkor, Ta Prohm has been left as it was found, preserved as an example of what a tropical forest will do to an architectural monument when the protective hands of humans are withdrawn.
"As long as dead forest is worth more in the market than living, standing forest, it's going to be a very tough, uphill fight to preserve very much, " says Stephan Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy for the EDF.
As investors see the value of diversification into sustainable tropical forestry on their portfolio then even a small asset allocation into this asset class will have huge positive effects on forest preservation at a time the world needs stable tropical forest holdings most.
Total carbon deposits per square kilometer in these coastal systems may be up to five times the carbon stored in tropical forests, due to their ability to absorb, or sequester, carbon at rates up to 50 times those of the same area of tropical forest.
"Nicaragua has one of the three great blocs of remaining tropical rain forest in Central America, " he said.
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Machu Picchu stands 2, 430 m above sea-level, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting.
One picture from that Greenpeace link in particular says it all: a region of tropical Sumatran forest cleared with as much wide-scale devastation as if a tsunami had taken out every last tree.
Standing 2, 430 m above sea level, in the midst of a tropical mountain forest in an extraordinarily beautiful setting, Machu Picchu was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height.
For those who prefer to travel by boat, Wailua Kayak Adventures and Kayak Wailua offer tours that begin with a slow, two-mile paddle down the calm Wailua River, pass an old Hawaiian village along the banks and end in the middle of a tropical rain forest.
The effect in the tropics should be even greater due to the inefficient nature of markets for tropical forests and forest products.
National Geographic Expeditions runs tours throughout the year for the same price, covering natural wonders like Easter Island and the tropical Daintree rain forest in Australia.
The answer is not to promote boycotts of tropical timber or insist, as the Forest Stewardship Council does, that the same forest management rules apply to planted softwood as rainforests.
"Every year in tropical countries we lose about an area of forest about the size of New York state, " said Peter Frumhoff, of the advocacy group the Union of Concerned Scientists.
It is the largest continuous area of primary broad leaf forest ecosystem in the whole sub-tropical zone.
Alexander Mather of the University of Aberdeen predicted in 1992 that forest transition is the likely future of tropical countries, too.
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