Background information; by edgardowelelo@yahoo.com.  

The world’s largest continent extends from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, and from the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Its climatic zones range from the Arctic to the tropics. Within this enormous landmass there is a wide variation of vegetation zones from north to south: tundra’s, coniferous forests, woodlands, Mediterranean rainforests, coastal vegetation, montane rainforests, and alpine vegetation. The altitudinal range, moreover, is enormous: from Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake, to the Himalayas at the top of our globe. In many Asian countries, particularly in tropical Asia, destruction of nature has unfortunately gone so far that several of the larger mammals can scarcely be found anywhere outside the national parks that constitute their last stronghold: this is often the case on the numerous islands of northeastern and eastern Asia, where many species or races peculiar to each island live. It is significant that it is in the Asian tropics, only a minor part of the Asian continent, that most animals have become extinct or have come dangerously near the same fate – a consequence of the fact that man has utilized the tropical lands much longer than the more northern regions. Tropical and subtropical areas are also more sensitive to human misuse that are temperate and arctic tracts. A reaction to this far reaching destruction of nature in tropical Asia is that numerous national parks – but still not enough – have been set aside by several forward looking countries in order to save threatened animals and representative habitats. These areas, therefore, are of extreme importance for conservation.

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