10. Hallerbos Forest, Belgium
Each spring season, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor of this Belgian woods. Also, it is a unique forest area located mainly in the Halle district of Europe’s Belgium. Every spring, a dense cover of dreamlike bluebell flowers carpeted the forest floor of Hallerbos, resulting in a beautiful tourist attraction. It gets its name due to the beautiful purple carpet of bluebells. It covers an area of almost 1360 acres.
Blooming occurs during the spring, from April to May. Hallerbos’ forests include some species of trees such as pine, beech, oak, giant sequoia, ash, and larch. The German forces removed most of the Hallerbos trees during World War I.
The Agency for Nature and Forest management administered this public forest. When the bluebells are blooming, the sun’s rays reach through the trees’ uppermost branches and touch the blue carpet, developing a gorgeous play of light and purple. The cyclers, hikers and horse riders, and for a museum used the tracks of Hallerbos. The foxes, hares, deer, rabbits, and polecats used this forest as their home.
Visitors can get there with their vehicles or with public transportation. But, millions of the blooms combined to form a violet-blue carpet on the Belgium woods, too excessive in appearance and smell every spring without fail.
Foggy conditions, especially suitable for photographers, make the woods of the trees a mysterious and ghostly atmosphere. It blooms for a few weeks each spring. So, it is attracting most visitors in April and May. Other common names of the forest are Halle Forest’ and ‘The Blue Forest.’
9. Amazon Rainforest, South America
Amazon Rainforest covers an area of 2,300,000 square miles. This region is better known for its high rainfall, high humidity, and monotonously high temperatures that prevail here. The Amazon rainforest has around 3,000 fruits, and people in the western world use only 200 of them. However, indigenous tribes consumed over 2000! It is the largest of the rainforests, gives the earth more than 20% of its oxygen.
The Amazon Rainforest is a beautiful forest region that consists of millions of miles of trees, unique animals, and rare species of plants and bugs. Taking up most of the Amazon Basin, it goes across nine South American countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and smaller parts of other South American countries.
The trees, such as Brazil-nut tree, palm trees, and epiphytes, mainly grow in this rainforest. It also has a variety of animals, including mammals, birds, fish, and insects. The rainforest floor is very dark because of the canopy’s thicknesses, with less than one percent of the sun’s light making it through the tree canopy.
Major threats to these rainforests are human encroachment, exploitation, deforestation, and other forms of destruction. More than 80% of the food in the world we eat came from the Amazon rainforests. We referred to the moist, broadleaf rainforest as the ‘Lungs of the Planet.’ People considered the Amazon River as the life force of this Amazon rainforest.
The loudest creature in the Amazon is the toucan. It is home to an extremely dangerous or venomous snake-like an anaconda, spiders, poisonous dart frogs, jaguars, electric eels, and flesh-eating piranhas vampire bats. It’s so thick that it takes around 10 minutes for the water to go through the leaves and reach(hit) the ground when it rains.
It is commonly known as the Amazon Jungle and Amazonia. The burning of the Amazon rainforest creates around 30% of carbon emissions. Environmentalists are mainly concerned about global warming and biodiversity loss, which is increasingly whittling away the habitat every day.
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