Bringing up the rear of the small convoy was a flatbed truck capable of ferrying 100 or more people out of the steamy equatorial forest.
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In the Pacific Equatorial Forest, which is located in between these two extremes, precipitation primarily varies according to elevation and proximity to the ocean.
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Eli Lopez gestured at a field of green coca shrubs deep in Colombia's equatorial forests, where guerrillas and drug traffickers move about at will.
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The Pacific Equatorial Forest covers 650 square kilometres, or 65, 000 hectares of land, of which approximately 19, 000 hectares are still forested.
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Frequent swapping of " temporary wives " in an equatorial forest where hygiene was problematic and condoms all but nonexistent led to an explosion of gonorrhea.
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Upon arriving in Libreville, Powell took a helicopter ride along the coast to see a swath of equatorial forests around which Gabon is building a tourism industry.
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It is believed to originate in primates such as chimpanzees and gorillas and may be spread by trade in their meat in Africa's equatorial forest regions.
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The five-month march through equatorial forests that brought 100, 000 Rwandans to camps near Kisangani was just too much more the one-year-old.
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Afterward, Powell toured some of the Congo Basin forests in Gabon, trekking along an elephant trail and taking a helicopter ride to see a swath of equatorial forests.
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She acknowledged that the refugee agency was unable to account for another 200, 000 Rwandan refugees who were not at camps and who could be living in the equatorial forest.
