The International Day of the Tropics
The future belongs to the Tropics
The International Day of the Tropics celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the tropics while highlighting unique challenges and opportunities nations of the Tropics face. It provides an opportunity to take stock of progress across the tropics, to share tropical stories and expertise and to acknowledge the diversity and potential of the region.
The Ecosystem
The Tropics are a region of the Earth, roughly defined as the area between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn. Although topography and other factors contribute to climatic variation, tropical locations are typically warm and experience little seasonal change in day-to-day temperature. An important feature of the Tropics is the prevalence of rain in the moist inner regions near the equator, and that the seasonality of rainfall increases with the distance from the equator. The tropical region faces several challenges such as climate change, deforestation, logging, urbanisation and demographic changes.
On International Day of the Tropics, which is marked on June 29 every year, we take a look at the importance of the tropical regions, which cover approximately 40 per cent of the land area on the Earth. The Earth’s tropics lie roughly in the middle of the globe between the latitude lines of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; and include the Equator and parts of North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Tropical locations are typically warm, experience little seasonal change in day-to-day temperature and have high rainfalls, the seasonality of the latter increasing with distance from the equator.
Merjen JUMAGYLYJOVA,
the 1st year student of
the Faculty of International
Journalism of
the Institute of International Relations
of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.