Rainforests

Connected Sites

Site Rationale Link
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)
Bale Mountains National Park moist tropical rainforest
Blue and John Crow Mountains "Supplementary information provided by the State Party notes that the nominated property consists of tropical, montane rainforest, much of which is cloud forest between 850m and 2,256m." (IUCN ev)
Brazilian Atlantic Islands Insular Atlantic Forest - a subtype of Atlantic Rainforest (Fernando de Noronha)
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Central Amazon Conservation Complex "The forest cover of JNP is linked to the extensive and continuous tropical rainforests of the Amazon Central Plain" (AB ev)
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 "primarily lowland rainforest (40% of the area) and montane rainforest (20% of the area)." (AB ev)
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 "rich tropical lowland and hill rainforest (dominated by diptocarps) amounting to 35%" (AB ev)
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
Nyungwe National Park "The nominated component part of Nyungwe Natural Forest consists of montane rainforests" (AB ev)
Odzala-Kokoua "MFOK is part of the large tri-national Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM) landscape, which covers 10% of the Congo Basin rainforest" (AB ev)
Okapi Wildlife Reserve
Olympic National Park
Paraty and Ilha Grande "The property and its buffer zone present a natural amphitheatre of Atlantic Rainforest dropping down to Ilha Grande Bay" (OUV)
Phong Nha - Ke Bang
Pitons of Reunion Subtropical rainforests
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
Rainforests of the Atsinanana "represent circa 20-25% of the total area of rainforests remaining in Madagascar" (AB ev)
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
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 "riverine 'rainforest' within the waterfall splash zone is a fragile ecosystem of discontinuous forest on sandy alluvium, dependent upon maintenance of abundant water and high humidity resulting from the spray plume" (OUV)
Virunga National Park
Western Ghats
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Yakushima Temperate Rainforest

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