S. temperate rain forest, the Hoh River Valley is part of Washington State's Olympic National Park. Its trees include big leaf maples, western hemlock, and Sitka spruce.
The forester has explored those tropical rain forests.
Found in the rain forests of Africa, this large bat gets its name for the huge, strangely shaped head of the males.
What and where: A 125-mile strip of mountain, rain forest, rivers and marsh separating Panama and Colombia, with no paved roads.
3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago.
These tropical rain forests surround the famed La Selva Biological Station, a center for ecological research.
Tropical rain forests are diminishing at an alarming rate because of the human need for food and demands for timber, energy, minerals, and other resources.
We assumed that this growth of old trees is pristine rain forest because the only way we know how to manage a forest is to clear the trees, and these weren't clear-cut.
A cassowary looks like a flamboyant ostrich and can be found wandering the rain forests of Australia and New Guinea.
This magnificent rain forest in Peru's Madre DE Dios region holds some of the last old-growth stands of mahogany in South America.
The gunk on the beak of this satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus minor) is plant matter, which he mashed up to paint his bower's inner sanctum in a rain forest in Queensland, Australia.
The Lost City of Z, a fabled metropolis of unimagined riches deep in the Amazon rain forest, has eluded explorers for centuries.
The hardwoods need a temperate climate, with moister, warmer weather. Tropical hardwoods, such as mahogany, teak, and ebony, grow in the rain forests near the equator.
Perhaps a thousand of them live in one of the largest coastal temperate rain forests in the world.
Flying gecko the flying gecko lives in the Malaysian rain forest.
American Douglas Tomkins, the founder of the Esprit clothing line and a prominent global conservationist, has bought more than 800,000 wilderness acres in Chile to preserve alerces and protect what's left of the temperate rain forest.
The rich dust that falls from the sky, and the rain storms caused by that dust picking up moisture during it's transoceanic journey both fertilize the Amazon rain forest.
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