Bavarian Forest National Park, known locally as Bayerischer Wald, is located on the southeastern border of Germany running alongside the Czech Republic. The protected forest combines with the Czech Republic’s Sumava National Park to create the largest protected contiguous forest in Central Europe. The Bavarian Forest National Park is...

The forests of northern Iran, known as Hyrcani, are one of the oldest dense forests in Iran. According to fossils and other available evidence, the life of Hyrcanian forest trees dates back to the Ice Age and the third geological period, which is related to dinosaurs. Hyrcanian forests have...

The nation’s largest forest is the Tongass National Forest with 17 million acres – so designated by Teddy Roosevelt in 1917. Nestled inside the Tongass in Southeast Alaska is some of the lushest vegetation found anywhere on the planet. It’s part of the largest temperate rainforest region in the...