Beauty of nature

Five top forest in the  World 1.  Amazon Rainforest  Size: 5,5 million sq km / 2,1 million sq mi The territory of the Amazon Rainforest stretches across nine countries, representing over half of the world’s remaining rainforests. About 70 per cent of the total forest area is in Brazil and Peru. Heavy logging in the past decades reduced the original forest area of about 7 million sq km to 5,5 million sq km The Amazon Rainforest hosts a wealth of biodiversity and valuable freshwater resources. It does not only play a crucial role for global biodiversity conservation, but also provides essential ecological services as a carbon sink. 2 Canada  Size: 4,2 million sq km / 1,6 million sq mi Forests in Canada occupy 4,2 million sq km and cover almost half of the country’s territory. A great variety of forest types stretch from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast and up to the Arctic tree line in the north. The northern boreal forests, the largest contiguo...