Connected Sites
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Primeval Beech Forests
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, UkraineInscribed: 200731637contains the largest remaining primeval beech forests in Europe (AB ev) -
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a large primeval forest (wiki)
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The range is home to an estimated 187,000 acres (76,000 ha) of old growth forest (wiki)
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The terrestrial ecosystem has various types of virgin vegetation (AB ev)
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"Ivindo National Park (...) boasts biogeographically unique Caesalpinioideae old-growth forests of high conservation value". (Official description) The presence of old-growth terra firma forests is an important factor in describing the OUV of the NP. These very old forests, also called primary forests, represent a characteristic stage in the evolution of forests in Central Africa. They are very rare in Gabon and in West Central Africa in general. (Nomination file, p. 54-55)
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It contains a unique remnant of a warm-temperate primeval forest (AB ev crit IX)
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one of the most extensive areas of virgin boreal forest remaining in Europe (AB ev)
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retains primeval palm forest in a near-natural state (AB ev)
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the largest remaining virgin beech forest in East Asia (AB ev)
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The parks protect 38,982 acres (157.75 km2) of old-growth forest (wiki)
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"It contains one of the world’s largest stands of virgin temperate rainforest, and includes many of the largest coniferous tree species on earth." Criteria (vii) for Inscription
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including extensive old-growth forests (AB ev crit IX)
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"LANP does contain extremely valuable old-growth forests which are difficult to access and perhaps the best protected old-growth forests in Argentina." (AB ev)
