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**Taranaki, New Zealand** By: Kyle Wilcox

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Brazil By:Joshua Foster
 * [[image:http://www.gmagazine.com.au/files/imagecache/node/news/20081202_amazon_rainforest.jpg align="right"]]Average temperature: 18 °C (°F)
 * Annual Precipitation: 262 cm. (103 in.)
 * Latitude Range: 10° S to 25 ° N
 * Global Position: Amazon Basin; Congo Basin of equatorial Africa; East Indies, from Sumatra to New Guinea.

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Amazon Rainforest by Tyler Turek

The Amazon rainforest gets its name from the Amazon River. The Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia, is one of the world's greatest resources. Amazonia receives about 9 feet of rain every year. Fifty percent of this returns to the atmosphere through the foliage of trees.



· Although tropical Africa is most familiar in the West as depicted by its rain forests

· This region of Tropical African rain forests are tropical moist forests of semi-deciduous varieties distributed across nine West African countries Africa is far more diverse.

· The rain forests which remain in West Africa now just are how they were hardly 30 years ago. African rainforest

· The lowland forests of West Africa are home to more than a quarter of Africa's Mammals, including more than 20 species of primate

· This region comprises a range of distinct vegetation zones from moist forests along the coast to semi-deciduous forests inland with prolonged dry seasons.

· Annual [|precipitation] over 1400 mm · Mean annual temperature between 4 and 12 degrees Celsius. (39 and 54 degrees Fahrenheit)

** Madagascar ** v **Generally the climate of ****Madagascar ****is subtropical, with a hot and rainy season betwe en November and April, and a cooler dry season from May to October. ** v ** However there is a big variation in climate depending on altitude and geographical position. ** v ** The west coast is drier than the east coast and the central highlands, while the far south and south west is a semi-desert region that experiences very little rainfall. ** v ** The east coast receives the most rain and is hot and humid during the wet season, and also prone to cyclones between February and March. ** v ** Temperatures are much cooler in the highlands. Along the coast temperatures range from 81°F to 90°F (27°C to 32°C) in the wet season and 64°F to 72°F (18°C to 22°C) in the dry season. ** v **May to October is the most pleasant time to travel to Madagascar, with cooler temperatures and little rain **.

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