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Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

  • Laurel forest
    Laurel forest, also called laurisilva or laurissilva, is a type of subtropical forest found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable, mild temperatures.
  • Cloud forest
    A cloud forest, also called a fog forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level.
  • Cocos Island
    Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is an island designated as a National Park off the shore of Costa Rica, that does not allow inhabitants other than Costa Rican Park Rangers.
  • Buru
    Buru (formerly spelt Boeroe) is the third largest island within Maluku Islands of Indonesia.
  • Mount Mabu
    Mount Mabu is a mountain in northern Mozambique, famous for its old-growth rainforest.
  • Fernando de Noronha
    Fernando de Noronha (Portuguese pronunciation: [feʁˈnɐ̃du d(ʒ)i noˈɾoɲɐ]) is an archipelago of 21 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, 354 km (220 mi) offshore from the Brazilian coast.
  • Mascarene Islands
    The Mascarene Islands (or Mascarenhas Archipelago) is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues.
  • Sundarbans
    The Sundarbans (Bengali: সুন্দরবন, Shundôrbôn) is a natural region comprising southern Bangladesh and a part in the Indian state of West Bengal.
  • Atlantic Forest
    The Atlantic Forest (Portuguese: Mata Atlântica) is a terrestrial biome and region 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, where the region is known as Selva Misionera.
  • Nicobar Islands
    ("Frederiksøerne" redirects here. For the Danish island in the Baltic Sea, see Ertholmene.) The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean and one of the most isolated in the world.
  • Sinharaja Forest Reserve
    Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a national park and a biodiversity hotspot in Sri Lanka.
  • Trindade and Martim Vaz
    Trindade and Martim Vaz (Portuguese: Trindade e Martim Vaz, pronounced: [tɾĩˈdadʒi i mɐʁˈtʃĩ ˈvas]) is an archipelago located about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) east of Vitória in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the State of Espírito Santo, Southeast Brazil.
  • Louisiade Archipelago
    The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten larger volcanic islands frequently fringed by coral reefs, and 90 smaller coral islands located 200 km southeast of New Guinea, stretching over more than 160 kilometres (99 mi) and spread over an ocean area of 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi) between the Solomon Sea to the north and the Coral Sea to the south.
  • Trobriand Islands
    The Trobriand Islands are a 450-square-kilometre (174-square-mile) archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea.
  • Mentawai Islands Regency
    The Mentawai Islands are a chain of about seventy islands and islets off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.
  • Molai forest
    Molai forest is a forest on Majuli Island in the Brahmaputra River in Kokilamukh, Jorhat district, Assam, India.
  • Kanneliya-Dediyagala-Nakiyadeniya
    Kanneliya-Dediyagala-Nakiyadeniya or KDN is a forest complex in southern Sri Lanka.
  • Budongo Forest
    The Budongo Forest in Uganda is northwest of the capital city Kampala on the way to Murchison Falls National Park, and is located on the escarpment northeast of Lake Albert.
  • Bugoma Forest
    The Bugoma Forest is a protected tropical forest that is situated southwest of Hoima and northeast of Kyenjojo towns, and east of Lake Albert, in the Hoima district of western Uganda.
  • New Guinea Highlands
    The New Guinea Highlands, also known as the Central Range or Central Cordillera, are a chain of mountain ranges and intermountain river valleys, many of which support thriving agricultural communities, on the large island of New Guinea, which lies to the north of Australia.
  • Northern Indochina subtropical moist forests
    The Northern Indochina subtropical moist forests are a subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of northern Indochina, covering portions of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and China's Yunnan Province.
  • Massif de la Hotte
    The Massif de la Hotte is a mountain range in southwestern Haiti, on the far-western end of the Tiburon Peninsula.
  • Mount Lidgbird
    Mount Lidgbird, also Mount Ledgbird and Big Hill, is located in the southern section of Lord Howe Island, just north of Mount Gower, from which it is separated by the saddle at the head of Erskine Valley, and has its peak at 777 metres (2,549 ft) above sea level.
  • Alakai Wilderness Preserve
    The Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve, popularly known as Alakaʻi Swamp, is a montane wet forest on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi.
  • Santa Lucia Cloud Forest
    Santa Lucia Cloud Forest (Spanish: Bosque Nublado Santa Lucía) is a cloud forest reserve, located about 80 km northwest of Quito, in the province of Pichincha, in Ecuador.