Rainforest

Old Growth Forests
Daintree Rainforest, Australia

Daintree Rainforest, Australia

The Daintree Rainforest is a tropical rainforest on the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Mossman and Cairns. At around 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi), the Daintree is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian continent.…
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Old Growth Forests
Tarkine, Australia

Tarkine, Australia

The Tarkine is an area containing the Savage River National Park in the north west Tasmania, Australia, which environmental non-government organizations claim contains significant areas of wilderness. The Tarkine is noted for its beauty and natural values, containing the largest…
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Old Growth Forests
Great Bear Rainforest, Canada

Great Bear Rainforest, Canada

The Great Bear Rainforest is a temperate rain forest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. Originally a name coined by environmental groups in the mid-1990s, it is a 6.4 million hectare area along British Columbia’s north and central…
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Old Growth Forests
The Amazon, Brazil and Peru

The Amazon, Brazil and Peru

The Amazon Rainforest, also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which…
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