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Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex on the border between Poland and Belarus. It is one of the last and the largest remaining part of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to more than 800 European bisons, Europe's heaviest land animal. [2]
The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world's forests (45 percent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54 percent) of the world's forests is in only five countries – the Russian Federation (20.1%), Brazil (12.2%), Canada (8.6%), the United States of America (7.6%) and China (5.4%). [2]
The Western European broadleaf forests is an ecoregion in Western Europe, and parts of the Alps.It comprises temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, that cover large areas of France, Germany and the Czech Republic and more moderately sized parts of Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and South Limburg (Netherlands).
Later, several other primeval and old-growth beech forests in Europe were included (in 2007 and 2011) in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe [2] as well. As a primeval beech forest, Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh is an important research hotspot. [3]
Central European mixed forests [citation needed] Bosnia and Herzegovina: Perućica: 1,434 hectares (3,540 acres) Dinaric Mountains mixed forests: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ravna Vala: 45.04 hectares (111.3 acres) Dinaric Mountains mixed forests: Bulgaria [10] Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of Europe in the Central Balkan National Park
The Scandinavian and Russian taiga is an ecoregion within the taiga and boreal forests biome as defined by the WWF classification (ecoregion PA0608). [1] It is situated in Northern Europe between tundra in the north and temperate mixed forests in the south and occupies about 2,156,900 km 2 (832,800 sq mi) in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the northern part of European Russia, being the largest ...
The Virgin Komi Forests, located in the northeastern part of European Russia, encompasses approximately 3.28 million hectares, making them the largest expanse of virgin boreal forest in Europe. This vast area includes diverse landscapes such as tundra, alpine tundra, and boreal forests, situated west of the Ural Mountains in the Komi Republic.
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe is a transnational serial nature UNESCO World Heritage Site, encompassing 93 component parts (forests of European beech, Fagus sylvatica) in 18 European countries. [1] [2] [3] Together, the sites protect the largest and least disturbed forests dominated by the ...