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Rainforest Videos
Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
Perhaps the most mysterious and magical place on Earth, the Amazon contains the largest expanse of tropical forest in the world and harbors approximately one-third of its species.
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Jutting out into the Pacific off of Costa Rica's western coast, this remote paradise harbors a diversity of habitats and biological richness found nowhere else on Earth.
Dossel de uma floresta de 50 anos no Projeto de Carbono Guaraqueçaba, Paraná, Brasil. © Scott Warren
Atlantic Forest, Brazil
Once stretching 330 million acres, an area twice the size of Texas, the Atlantic Forest of Brazil is one of the world's most extraordinary forests.
East Kalimantan, Indonesia
East Kalimantan, Indonesia, is the heart of Borneo and one of the world's last great places.
East Maui Watershed, Hawaii
Native Hawaiian forests of towering trees, steep cliffs and deep valleys stretch across the wet windward slopes of the dormant Haleakala Volcano to the sea 10,000 feet below.
Great Bear Rainforest, Canada
William Housty, head of the Coastwatch Grizzly Monitoring Project of the Heiltsuk First Nation, describes the process of capturing DNA samples from Grizzly Bears in the Great Bear Rainforest.
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Protect one of the world's most extraordinary, yet highly threatened rainforests - the Osa Peninsula.