Rainforests

Ecology

Connected Sites

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Alejandro de Humboldt National Park ranging from lowland rainforest between 200m and 400m, submontane rainforest to 600m, montane rainforest above 600m (UNEP-WCMC)
Amami-Oshima Island subtropical rainforests (AB ev)
Angkor
Australian Convict Sites Great North Road - Shepherds Gully is a rainforest gully that starts at the top of the Devines Hill (northern end of the inscribed area)
Brazilian Atlantic Islands Insular Atlantic Forest - a subtype of Atlantic Rainforest (Fernando de Noronha)
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Central Amazon Conservation Complex
Central Highlands
Central Suriname Nature Reserve
China Danxia Temperate Rainforest
Chiribiquete National Park
Cocos Island
Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands dominated by Colchic rainforests (AB ev)
Darien National Park
Discovery Coast
Dja Faunal Reserve
Dong Phayayen
Fraser Island
Gondwana Rainforests
Gunung Mulu
Gusuku of Ryukyu The sacred forest of Sefa Utaki, Part of Gusuku Sites is Tropical Rainforest
Iguazu National Park part of the largest protected subtropical rainforest in the world (UNEP-WCMC)
Ivindo National Park Situated in the lower Guinean Rainforest zone (AB ev)
Jeju Temperate Rainforest (Hallasan NP)
Kaeng Krachan Forest
Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Kakadu National Park
Kii Mountain Range Temperate Rainforest
Kinabalu Park
Komodo National Park patches of tropical rainforest and mangrove (UNEP-WCMC)
Lopé-Okanda
Lorentz National Park
Los Katios National Park pre-montane tropical rainforest (UNEP-WCMC)
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
Manu National Park
Morne Trois Pitons
Mount Hamiguitan the site features several vegetation types of a tropical rainforest: dipterocarp, montane, typical mossy forest and mossy pygmy forest, with each forest type harboring endemic, threatened, rare and economically important plants and animal species (nom file)
Mount Nimba
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
Okapi Wildlife Reserve
Olympic National Park
Phong Nha - Ke Bang
Pitons of Reunion Subtropical rainforests
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
Rainforests of the Atsinanana
Redwood Temperate Rainforest
Rio Abiseo National Park
Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
Salonga National Park
Sangay National Park
Sangha Trinational
Singapore Botanic Gardens
Sinharaja Forest
South China Karst Temperate Rainforest
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
Tasmanian Wilderness
Te Wahipounamu Temperate Rainforest
Three parallel rivers of Yunnan Temperate Rainforest
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
Tikal National Park The ruins lie among the tropical rainforests of northern Guatemala (wiki)
Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
Ujung Kulon National Park
Vallée de Mai
Vat Phou Phu Khao mountain is rainforest
Victoria Falls
Virunga National Park
Western Ghats
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Yakushima Temperate Rainforest

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