Tropical rainforests, the future of the Earth

Visiting this exhibition, you can venture deep into the heart of the tropical rainforests -of Latin America, Africa or Asia- and discover how far they are essential for the future of our Earth! Tropical rainforests are biodiversity hotspots rich in resources, and represent nearly a third of the world’s woodland areas. They support the lives of several hundred million people. But these forests do not provide just wood, fruit, game and abundant land reserves for crop and animal farming. They also offer a range of less visible services, just as essential for human well-being, particularly by virtue of their role in regulating the climate, the water cycle and soil conditions.

Tropical rainforests are now under threat, precisely because of the rich resources they contain. So is it possible to devise sustainable management approaches that will help reconcile their utilization with their protection? This is a key question running through the exhibition. The displays will lead you into the great forest areas of Central Africa, the Amazon Basin and Southeast Asia.

Exhibition produced by CIRAD and the IRD, with the support of the Institut français and the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.

Cueillette en Indonésie. © Anna Clopet, IRD, base Indigo

Technical specifications of the exhibition:

23 banners (M1 classification)
Format: 17 80 x 200 cm panels; 6 80 x 100 cm panels
Eyelets on upper and lower edges and stabilizing bars
To be hung on frameworks or walls (using nails), excluding all other systems
Indoor or outdoor
Metropolitan France: available in French
French networks overseas: available in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese
Case: 36x36x93 cm, 30 kg
Insurance value: € 1500

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Update date: 29/03/2012

Exhibition available on request

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Tropical rainforests, the future of the Earth