A forest is a large area of land covered with trees or other woody vegetation Hundreds of more precise definitions of forest are used throughout the world Source:Wikipedia
1. More than 10000 things are manufactured from trees.
2. About 30% of the global total land area is covered by forests
3. The Boreal forest is the largest land habitat on the planet
4. Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth
5. Rainforests are not tropical
6. Forests account for 75% of the gross primary productivity
7. Orangutans are the largest tree-dwelling mammal
8. 28% of the medicines we use originate in rainforest plants
9. Human society and forests influence each other in both positive and negative ways.
10. More than 300,000 acres of forests were burnt in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan.
Source:Wikipedia
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