Sentences with phrase «including dense rainforest»

The wilderness surrounding the dam is diverse, including dense rainforest, pine tree plantations and Australian scrub.

These include dense rainforest, Byron Bay, the outback and the city of Surfer's Paradise.

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Most of the island is covered in dense virgin rainforest, with over 20 km of excellent walking trails meandering across the island including a boardwalk across a mangrove swamp.

Vast swathes of dense rainforest, misty cloud forest and volcanic cones squeeze into this compact country, each dripping with tropical life, including three - toed sloths, howler monkeys and brightly billed toucans.

The incredible flora of Corcovado National Park's dense rainforest includes over 500 species of trees including the Purple Heart, the banak and the crab wood tree that account for over 1/4 of all tree species found in Costa Rica.

The town is blessed with stunning beaches, miles of pure sand, dense rainforest home to a range of native species (including koalas) and 220 square kilometres of surrounding marine park.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.