rain forest

“Elba’s more of a temperate rain forest, so scorpions are actually out of place here.”

Ms. Mac told us about the rain forest and teaching in a school in Brazil.

Sometimes described as underwater rain forests, coral reefs support a quarter of marine species and form crucial barriers that protect coastlines from the full force of storms.

His photos of temperate rain forest in Wales reveal shapes, structures and colours that rival a coral reef.

Old growth forests are certainly critically important keepers of habitats, but older forests, including rainforests like the Amazonian rain forest, are valuable primarily as carbon storage forests, not carbon sequestering forests.