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Check out the list of the eight oldest forests in the world, with photos some important features

1. Tongass National Forest, Alaska, United States

It is the largest national forest in the US and also the largest intact temperate and coastal forest in the world. It is estimated that parts of the forest are millions of years old and that many trees are more than 800 years old. This forest is a rich ecosystem that has more organic matter and more biomass per acre than any other, including tropical forests.

2. Waipoua Forest, New Zealand

The area is rich with New Zealand's rare flora and fauna, especially the coniferous tree called kauri, which has incredible longevity. The oldest tree in the group is the one in the photo, being over 150 feet tall and some 2,300 years old.

3. Daintree Rainforest, Australia

It covers an area of ​​approximately 1.2 thousand square kilometers. It is estimated that the forest is 180 million years old and that it is millions of years older than the Amazon forest. It is home to thousands of species of birds and other animals, including 30% of Australian frogs, marsupials and reptiles, around 65% of Australia's bats and butterflies and 18% of all bird species, not to mention 12,000 different species of insects.

4. Yakushima Forest, Japan

It is a primary temperate forest and its ecosystem is unique in the temperate area of ​​the Northern Hemisphere. Yakusugi (Japanese cedar) trees stand out in the forest, living for about seven thousand years.

5. Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California, United States

In this place lives the oldest tree in the world, named Methuselah, which is about 4840 years old. It lives from the time when the first pyramids in Egypt were being built. Learn more about her in the article "Concentric rings of trees provide "pictures" of past weather."

6. Białowieża National Park, Poland and Belarus

It is one of the oldest parks in Europe, where trees live for thousands of years between the borders of the current states of Poland and Belarus. It is home to 59 species of mammals, 250 varieties of birds, 13 types of amphibians, seven species of reptiles, and more than 12,000 varieties of invertebrates. This place is also home to the European bison, which is practically extinct - Poland rescued some of them from zoos and took them to live in the park.

7. Tarkine Forest, Australia

It is the largest rainforest in Australia and the second largest in the world. It has mountain ranges, rivers, caves, coastline, wooded regions and coastal heaths. In this forest live the huon pines, which are more than three thousand years old and are among the oldest living trees in the world.

8. Kakamega Forest, Kenya

Kakamega is what remains of one of the largest primary forests in the world. It is estimated that half of the forest has been lost in the last 40 years thanks to a combination of human development, wars and the excessive use of resources. Despite the losses, the forest remains home to an enormous diversity of plants and animals, with 300 species of birds and 700-year-old fig trees.