Natural landscape, Forest

Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest is a region of tropical and subtropical moist forest, tropical dry forest, tropical savannas, and mangrove forests which extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil.
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Central Sikhote-Alin
The Sikhote-Alin is a mountain range in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, Russia, extending about 900 km to the northeast of the Russian Pacific seaport of Vladivostok.
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Central Suriname Nature Reserve
The Central Suriname Nature Reserve is a tropical forest in west-central Suriname. It is remarkable because of its size, pristine state and protection.
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Discovery Coast
The Atlantic Forest (Discovery Coast) is a region of tropical and subtropical moist forest, tropical dry forest, tropical savannas, and mangrove forests which extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the north to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south, and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina.
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Dja Faunal Reserve
Dja Faunal Reserve has been designated because of the diversity of species present in the park, the presence of five threatened species, and lack of disturbance within the park.
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Dong Phayayen
In the mountains of northeast Thailand, the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex is home to more than 800 species of fauna, including 392 species of birds.
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Garajonay
Garajonay National Park is located in the center and north of the island of La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands.
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Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (formerly called Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves) were designated a world heritage site because of their geological features.
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Guanacaste
The Area de Conservación Guanacaste comprises Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, Rincón de la Vieja National Parks and the Junquillal Bay Wildlife Refuge.
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Jiuzhaigou Valley
Jiuzhaigou Valley is a mountainous area with series of lakes and waterfalls containing clear, mineral-rich water.
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Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park is one of the last refuges of the rare Mountain Gorilla. Prior to conflicts which have plagued this part of Africa since the 1990's, only an estimated 600 gorillas remained throughout the range.
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Laurisilva of Madeira
The Laurisilva on the Portuguese island of Madeira (off the African coast) has been placed on the list mainly because of its biological diversity.
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Manu National Park
Manú National Park protects all of the ecological zones that exist in the Amazon Basin, covering an altitudinal gradient between 150 and 4200 meters above sea level.
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Morne Trois Pitons National Park
Luxuriant natural tropical forest blends with volcanic features of high scenic appeal and scientific interest in this national park centered on the 1,342 m high volcano bearing the name of Morne Trois Pitons.
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Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve includes significant portions of Mount Nimba, a geographically unique area with more than 200 endemic species.
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Mount Wuyi
Mount Wuyi, located at Fuijan province, is the most outstanding biodiversity conservation zone of Southeast China.
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Primeval Beech Forests
The Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian, in Slovakia and the Ukraine, are ten sites representing an outstanding example of undisturbed, complex temperate forests and exhibit the most complete and comprehensive ecological patterns and processes of pure stands of European beech across a variety of environmental conditions.
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Rainforests of the Atsinanana
The Rainforests of the Atsinananaare are recognized for its very high biodiversity and high level of endemism in both plants and animals.
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Redwood
The coastal redwood forest forms an unique and diverse resource: redwoods are surviving remnants of groups of trees that were once found throughout many of the moist temperate regions of the world.
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Rio Abiseo National Park
The Rio Abiseo National Park is home to a large number of species of flora and fauna, as well as the location of over 30 pre-Columbian archaeological sites.
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Salonga National Park
Salonga is a very isolated park in the tropical rainforest at the Congo river basin. It is Africa's biggest tropical rainforest reserve (the 2nd biggest in the world) and home to many endangered fauna species, notably the bonobo.
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Shirakami-Sanchi
Shirakami-sanchi (Shirakami Mountains) is situated in the north of Honshu with an area of 1,300 square kilometers.
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Sinharaja Forest Reserve
The Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a hilly virgin rainforest. It is a treasure trove of endemic species, including trees, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
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Taï National Park
Taï National Park is a national park in Côte d'Ivoire containing one of the last areas of primary tropical forest in West Africa.
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Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
The location of this unique site in Central America, where Quaternary glaciers have left their mark, has allowed the fauna and flora of North and South America to interbreed.
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Tasmanian Wilderness
The Tasmanian Wilderness area constitutes one of the last expanses of temperate wilderness in the world, including the renowned South West Wilderness.
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Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary and the adjoining Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary were declared a World Heritage Site in 1991.
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Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra comprises three Indonesian national parks on the island of Sumatra — Gunung Leuser National Park, Kerinci Seblat National Park and the Southern Hills National Park.
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Tsingy de Bemaraha
Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve was inschribed as World Heritage Site because of the unique geography, preserved mangrove forests, and wild bird and lemur populations of the area.
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Ujung Kulon National Park
Ujung Kulon National Park is located at the western-most tip of Java and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 for containing the largest remaining lowland rainforest in Java.
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Virgin Komi Forests
The Virgin Komi Forests is a natural UNESCO World Heritage site in the Northern Ural mountains of the Komi Republic, Russia.
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Wet Tropics of Queensland
This site, mainly consisting of wet tropical rainforest, matches all four natural criteria for inclusion.
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Yakushima
Yakushima is one of the islands of Japan, to the south of Kyûshû. It is covered in dense forest comprised especially of cedar trees known as Sugi in Japan.
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Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is located in the seismically most active area of the Rocky Mountains. This leads to the existence of 200 species of petrified plants and features like geysers (with 200-250 in number, more than all of the rest of the world combined), hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles.
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