The earth is a home for all living creatures weather they are animals, fishes, insects, humans as well as forests. Forests are like the lungs of the Earth. They keep the environment of the Earth fresh and suitable for life. Once there was a time when forests covered a huge amount of earth's surface. Over 50% of total land surface was covered by the forests. But due to the rapid growth in population many of these beautiful and wondering places have been cut down for resources. Now only 9.4% of the Earth's surface is now covered with the forests. Most of the people think that forests means trees, but the forests are not limited to trees it is a complex ecosystem which includes many species, smaller plants, fungi,bacteria, insects, animals as well as system of energy flow and nutrients cycle.
As you step up into these majestic plant communities, your lungs will be filled by the rush of fresh air. Your senses will perk up and become aware of life that surrounds you. In the forest you will discover and witness new things. In the forest you will be in the hands of nature. In the forest you will come to peace. In the forest you will leave the world of technology and learn what it was like to live off your land. So let's discover some of these magical world.
10.North Sentinel Island Forest:
The north sentinel island is situated in Bay of Bengal. It lies to the west of the southern part of And a man island. This island is unique because it is surrounded by coral reefs and lacks any natural harbors. So due to this reason this area of land was never settled by Europeans and never deforested. This lslands almost completely covered with old grown trees and have about 72 km² (27.8 sq mi) if area. Due to isolation the North Sentinel island has become home for the last pre-Neolithic tribes also known as the Sentinelese.
This tribe consists of upto 50-400 individuals. The tribe strongly rejects any interference of modern world. There is a famous story as, on January 26, 2006,two men were illegally fishing for mud crabs near this island unless the were attacked and killed by Sentinelese. Later, when the Indian cost guards tries to recover the bodies of those fishermen using a helicopter, then they were also attacked by these Sentinelese with the jail of arrows. It was then reported that their bodies are buried in a shallow graves of mud and not roasted and eaten. However, the stories of eating peoples by this tribe is very real.
In 2004, a Tsunami and earthquake in Indian Ocean damage the North Sentinel island very badly. The Tsunami sank the most of the parts of coral reefs and raised others. The coastline of island was already demolished. The fishing grounds of Sentinelese were destroyed, but they somehow has adapted to the current situations. The Sentinelese are basically a hunter gathering tribe, which obtain their resources from the forests through hunting, fishing and collecting wild plants.
Their agriculture practices and methods for producing fire are currently not known. The weapons of Sentinelese are javelins and flatbow, which has an accuracy of nearly 10m (32.8 feet). They also use u tipped arrows for warning shots. There food are basically plant stuffs, coconut, pigs and presumably other wildlife like sea turtles smaller birds and some small invertebrates.
9.Croocked Forest:
The crooked forest is a place for odly shaped pine trees located outside the village of Nowe Czarnowo, in Western Poland. This forest contains nearly 400 pine trees that grows with a 90° bend at the Base of their trunks. All of these trees are bend Northwards direction and surrounded by a larger forests of straight pine trees. These trees were planted around 1930 when the area was ubderbthe German province of Pomerania. It is thought that the bends of these trees were formed bl through human tool but the method and motive for creating these groves are not still known. It seems that the trees were allowed to grow normally for seven to ten years and later they were tied through a device for bending. The exact reason that why Germans would wants to make crooked trees is not known, but many people thought that they were going to be harvested for bent - wood furniture, the ribs of boat hulls, or yokes for ox-drawn plows.
8.Red Forest:
The Red forest is also called Worn Wood Forest and is located within the 10Km(6.2 miles) area surrounding Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine. After the accident of Chernobyl Nuclear blast on 26 April 1986, the Worn Wood Forest turned into red colour and died. During the cleaning process most of the trees were bulldozed and buried in a collection "waste graveyards". The trenches covered with a carpet of sands and planted over with new pine saplings.
Today, the Red forest is the most contaminated land in the world. It contain a mixture of old grown pine trees and newly planted pine trees which were planted during 1986. More than 90% of radioactivity of Red forest is contaminated in the soil. The Chernobyl incident has offered scientists an opportunity to study the passage of radioactive materials through an urban, rural, and natural environment over the time. The wildlife in Red forest has adapted to the changes and not only survived but flourished.
The forest is labelled as a "Radioactive Reserve" and is a place for many endangered species. A huge variety of different species has moved into the forest and biodiversity in the area has greatly increased after the accident.
In 1986, a population of wild boar in the forest has explored. The area is the home for large collection of wild species like storks, wolves, beavers, lynx, elk and eagles. Many birds has been observed nesting in old nuclear reactors and many endangered species have been spotted. In 2001, the trace of a brown bear were photographed in the streets of Pripyat. In 2002, a young eagle owl was seen on an abandoned excavator, which scientists think that only 100 of them are living in Ukraine. Also a white-tailed eagle which is an endangered species was radio tagged within three miles of plant. In 2005, a herd of 21 rare Przewalski's horses escaped from the captivity, bred in the area,and now their population is about 350 in this forest.
The Red forest stills shows some Unnatural behivour. The flora and fauna in this area is very badly affected by the nuclear radiation and radioactive contamination. In past few years, there were many reports of disasters like mutation of animals etc has happened, but no cases have been confirmed to the influence of genetic evolution of a species, expect for the partial albinism in swallow and stunted tail feathers in birds. It should be noted that the mutant animals die quickly in the wild, so the creatures affected by the explosion had died long time ago. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone now encompasses more than 1,600 sq miles of Northern Ukraine and Southern Belarus.
7.Chestnut Hills:
A devastating and dangerous disease named "blight" attacked the American chestnut trees and causes the mass extinction of these trees from its historic range in the eastern U.S. The disease was introduced accidently in the North America around 1900, either through the imported chestnuts lumber or via imported chestnut trees. Around 1940, almost all the American chestnuts were vanished. These humengus trees once grew as tall as 200 ft (61m), with a trunk of diameter 14 ft (4.2m). These trees were known to grow beautiful flowers in springs or early summers. The blight disease was caused by C. parasitical and killed around 4 billion American Chestnut trees. The disease was a type of fungus which kills these trees by entering beneath the bark and killing the cambium all the way round the twig, branch and trunk. After the identification of this disease, the peoples tries to remove the infected trees from the forests, but this was proved an ineffective way.
The largest forest of Chestnut tres in America is called "Chestnut Hills". It is located near the western Salem, Wisconsin. This forest holds upto 2,500 American Chestnut trees on 60 acres of land. These chestnuts are the descendants of those dozen trees planted by Martin Hicks in the late 1800s. These trees are located in the west range of the natural range of American chestnuts, that's why they were not infected by chestnut blight. But in 1987, the scientists found that these fungus have also affected these trees. So the scientists are working hard to save these trees as there is a strong desire to being back those beautiful chestnuts.
American Chestnut Foundation is trying to immune the rest of uninfected chestnuts. This disease is spread to local areas so there is a strong possibility of unaffected chestnuts are surviving in some isolated areas. A small stands of surviving chestnuts was found in F.D. Roosevelt State Park near Warn Springs, Georgia on April 22, 2006.
6.Sea of trees:
The sea of trees is a forest located at the northwest Base of Mount Fugi Japan. It is also known as Aokigahara forest. This forest is covered entirely with giant trees and caverns. It is a very dark and thick forest, so when you enter in this forest then you only saw beams of sunlight coming from the roof of this forest. There is no marks of wildlife in this forest and so it is also known for being eerily quiet place. This forest is famous for the beautiful view of Mount Fugi but infamous for suicides. There is currently no e act number of people's that has committed suicides in this forest but according to a report in 2004, 108 dead bodies were found in Aokigahara.
In recent time, the Japanese govt. has stopped publicising the number of suicides happening in the forest. But in 2010, approx 247 peoples were attempted suicide in Aokigahara but only 54 of them were succeeded.Due to the higher suicide rates, the officials have placed signs in the forest, in Japanese and English, which argue peoples to reconsider their actions. Every year in Aokigahara forest, the anual body search is run by the police and volunteers in the search for cores and every time during the event, the corpses are found, usually hanging from the trees. Due to these reasons the sea of trees is the second most popular place fir suicide attempts in the world after the golden gate bridge.
In Japan suicide rate is increasing year by year and it has become a major problem. Also the suicide rates has increased after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. In Japan, Hikikomori is a term that refers to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents or young adults who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degree of isolation. It is estimated that 1% of Japanese population is living as Hikikomori. In Japanese mythology, the sea of trees is always linked with the custom of ubasute, where ab elderly relative is left alone to die in a remote location.
5.Trilkemaraka-Rollagsfjell Forest:
Located in Buskerud, Norway, the Trillemarka - Rollagsfjell forest is expanded upto 147 sq.Km(57mi). It was created in the mountain areas between Nore in Numedal and Solevann in Sigdal. It have all the qualities of ancient forest of Norway. It has rivers, lakes, valleys and very old trees. This forest is the home of 93 endangered species. It has a large amount of animals. This area is one of the untouched woodlands in Norway. You can find some of the species that are endangered, like Woodpecker, Tree - toed woodpecker, Sobering Jay, Stock Dove and Golden eagle. The forest also have some endangered species of lichens, Fungi and mosses. About 75% of this forest is protect by the government. There is a controversy about how much of the remaining forest land should be preserve by future generations. It seems that Norway is lagging behind it's neighbouring countries in the protection of forests.
4.Dark Entry Forest:
Welcome to the beautiful hell. In Cornwall, Connecticut a town named Dudly town ( the village of Damned) is a ghost town. It was founded as a small settlement community in 1740s and was a growing community by the late of 18th century. It was also known as Owlsbury. This town was rich in iron industry and was a popular place to visit until people reported some strange sightings and sounds, unexplained murders and mass suicides. There were the some cases in which the town residents were experienced some hallucinations in which they saw a demon, who force them to commit suicides. It became a regular incidence of missing of sheep and cows heards in the town.
Many peoples had started to think that the area was cursed. By the mid 20th century, every person in the town was either bl died or moved away. Today this town looks like a dark, cold and silent place who is crying and trying to call their people back. By the wa, it is a deep thick and dark forest with rocky terrain and situated in the shadow of three separate mountains and the Clotsfoot Triplets. It contain dense and tall woods. The land is not officially located in a Connecticut state forest but is located near the Mohawk state Forest and Mohawk Trail.
The Dark Entry Forest Group patrol these ruins of Dudly town and Dark Entry Forest. About hundreds of people's were arrested for visiting this site. This area is also in famous for its large collection of Orbs, mysterious lights and weird sounds. Similar to the other mysterious forest the visitors claims that the trees of this forest are usually quiet and contain no wildlife. Contemporary researches have shown that the town may have contaminated with high amount of lead in the water which caused the massive deaths of people's of this town and also terrifying hallucinations.
Ardennes Forest:
The Ardennes is a region of extensively populated forest area with rolling hills and ridges in Belgium, Luxembourg and France. The area is covered with thick forest and terrain. The area is rich in timber, minerals and wild game. The Ardennes have a stage tic and defensive position in Europe. This was the region that a large numbers of battle have been fought on the land of Ardennes. In 20th century, it was thought that the Ardennes is a suitable place for military operations but this was proved wrong when the Germany easily made a passage and attacked the France in both World War 1 and World War 2.
The Ardennes was a witness of three major battles of 20th century, the battle of the Ardennes (1914), the battle of Ftance (1940) and the battle of the Bulgue (1944). The forest was completely taken by the Nazis in 1945. Today Ardenessis a popular destination site for vacation. Here you can do cycling, hunting, walking, canoeing, etc.
2.Hoia Baciu Forest:
If you love the mystries and paranormal activities then this is the only forest to fulfill your needs. The Hoia Baciu Forest is located near Cluji-Napoca, Romania and is commonly known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania".The forest was named so, after an incident, in which a shepherd with 200 sheep's was disappeared from the forest. Most of the people who lived near the forest ate afraid to in the forest. They believe that anyone, once enters in the forest, is never seen again and will never return. Many local people complains that when they entered in the forest the ly suffered from physical harms, burns, scratches, anxiety and other unusual body sensations.
This forest is also infamous for its paranormal activities l. People have seen many starnge and weird events in the forest. It includes, mysterious orb - like lights, female voices, giggling, apparitions and cases of people being scratched and hitting by a heavy objects. In 1970s, the area became popular for UFO sightings and Unexplained lights. Visitors reported a strong sensations of anxiety and hallucinations. They also feels that someone is watching and following them. The local vegetation of this forest is also very bizarre and rare. On August 18, 1968, a military technician named Emily Barnea captured some mysterious photographs of UFOS in jungle.
Many people who visited or lived near the forest have reported a large collection 9f orb - lights inside the tree line. When they saw these lights through thermal cameras, the light don't seems to be producing any heat,il it means the lights were cold, where normal light is slightly hot they were not showing the signs of any heating. Some people who enters in the forest suddenly remembers all of their past experiences in the trunk of trees, but when they live off the land they forget everything. Scientists of Germany, France, Poland, U.S., Hungry also have captured some rare events in their cameras, which includes the image of a face on film. So.e of the se structures can be seen through naked eyes and others only in the photos and videos.
1.Ancient Wuda Forest:
In a February 2012, scientists in northern chins announced that they had finished the reconstruction of a forest that was vanished and buried under a thick layer of volcanic ash near the Mongolian district of Wuda about 298 million years ago. The forest was completely preserved and covered with ashes of volcanic lava in the area of 20 sqKm (12.4 mile). It was identified that the eruption came from a large volcano around 100Km away. Due to the destruction a layer of ash which was 66cm (approx 40 inch ) thick covered the entire surface. The blast ripped off the leaves from the branches, knockdown the trees and buried the entire forest.
Scientists firm the university of pensilvania Shenyang Normal University and Yunnan university have been reconstructed about 10,000 sq ft of area the forest. They have found a large collection of plants species that has been extinct for centuries. In nutshel, about six different species of trees have been identified which includes, the tall Sigil lariat, Cordite and smaller spore - bearing Noeggerathiales, which is beloved to be related to the fern family. Scientists have not found any evidence of animal life,such as amphibians. Scientists believed that the forest was situated on the edge of a large tropical island of Pangaea's raster shore. It was a swampy land with a layer of peat and few inches of standing water on the ground.
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