The world’s great rainforests

Mongabay
Jun 22, 2020, 12:10 am257 pts
Flooded forest in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay Tropical rainforests have an outsized role in the world. Of the Earth’s ecosystems, rainforests support the largest variety of plants and animal species, house the majority of indigenous groups still living in isolation from the rest of…

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