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What is a Forest?

a polar bear

Fern

A forest is a highly complex, constantly changing environment made up of a variety of living (wildlife, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, ferns, mosses, lichens, fungi and microscopic soil organisms) and non-living (water, nutrients, rocks, sunlight and air) things. Trees are the dominant component of this complex community.

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Rain Forest in Borneo. (Malaysia)

There are many different kinds of forests around the world—tropical rain forests, temperate rain forests (or old-growth forests), boreal forests, mangrove forests, Carolinian forests, to name but a few.


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