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Taman Hutan Raya Ir. H. Juanda (lt. Grand Forest Park of (engineer) H. Juanda), locally shortened to "Tahura" is a conservation area and botanical garden in Bandung, Indonesia. The park is named after Djuanda Kartawidjaja, the last Prime Minister of Indonesia. It is located in Kampung Pakar, Ciburial Village, in the Cimenyan District.
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
Amazon River rain forest in Peru. Tropical rainforests are hot and wet. Mean monthly temperatures exceed 18 °C (64 °F) during all months of the year. [4] Average annual rainfall is no less than 1,680 mm (66 in) and can exceed 10 m (390 in) although it typically lies between 1,750 mm (69 in) and 3,000 mm (120 in). [5]
Tree ferns in a cloud forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo Stratus silvagenitus clouds in Uva Province, Sri Lanka. A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud 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, formally ...
The Borneo lowland rain forests is an ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, of the large island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. [1] It supports approximately 15,000 plant species, 380 bird species and several mammal species.
The Indonesian Forest Rangers (Indonesian: Polisi Kehutanan Indonesia, lit. 'Indonesian Forest Police', abbreviated "Polhut") is a park ranger civil service within the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia.
In English it goes by common names like isu, durian lai, oxyleyanus durian, [3]: 563 Durian Hutan, Durian, [1] and Durian meragang. [ 5 ] : 270 The native names include: durian beludu in Malaysia ; [ 6 ] durian daun in Sumatra ; [ 1 ] durian sukang or simply sukang in Brunei and Sabah ; [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and kerantongan or kerantungan in Kalimantan .
A subalpine lake in the Cascade Range, Washington, United States. Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains.The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify.