Fun fact: the reason why Finland has so much forest left, even though it's one of the world's largest producers of timber, is that by law every single tree that has been cut for commercial purposes must be replaced by three new tree saplings. Why three? Because it's about 1/3 chance that a sapling grows into a tree!

I was blown away by the fact that you traced the outline of each forest to estimate their relative sizes. What effort. Astounding.

The kind of work that you put in to mapping, is patience & commitment on some another level. You deserve a lot of appreciation for what you're propagating.

1:57 #10 Primoreye coniferous forest 🇷🇺 4:21 #9 Burmese Rainforest 🇲🇲 6:03 #8 Valdibian Rainforest 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 7:41 #7 Borneo Forest 🇮🇩🇲🇾🇧🇳 9:15 #6 New Guinea Tropical Rainforest 🇵🇬🇮🇩 10:41 #5 Congo Tropical Rainforest 🇨🇲🇨🇫🇨🇩🇨🇬🇬🇶🇬🇦 12:25 *Taiga forests* #4 Scandinavian-Russian Taiga 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇷🇺 #3 East-Siberian Taiga 🇷🇺 #2 Canadian Boreal Forest 🇨🇦 #1 Amazon Tropical Rainforest 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇻🇪🇵🇪🇧🇴🇬🇾🇸🇷🇬🇫 I might've missed a country or two, apologies if I've done that

It would be fair to mention that there are many people dying for defending the Amazon Forest every year, mainly in Brazil and Colombia...

When he said the Siberian tiger population is stable and rising I felt a little bit of hope to humanity

Hello, Environmental Engineer from Chile living in Patagonia here. Its great that you consider the Valdivian Temperate Forest, but I must say that in Patagonia, conifers are the dominant type of trees only in some areas such as Austrocedrus chilensis populations up until 42°S, Fitsroya cupressoides and Pilgerodendrum iviferum from 40°S to 43°S (but both in permanent waterlogged terrain mostly). As you said, Nothofagus species are the dominant ones in general terms thoughout the ecoregion. Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) and Coihue (N. dombeyi, N. betuloides, N. berteroana) are the most widely extended tree species, ranging from 35°S until Cape Horn.

"Impressive conservation efforts under the Soviet Union" Maybe I treated you too harshly

Meanwhile in 3045 Top 10 largest deserts

7:09 bye everyone, I’m off to live with my new best friends colocolo, pudu, and kodkod.

I I'm going to plant a forest when I grow up I'm 12 because I love nature I planted my first tree when I was 10

Bears, Leopards and Tigers co-exist in India too... I have seen all three in Bandipura forest

Tracing things online is very painstakingly hard work- and you did it for all 10 of the world's largest forests... I'm very impressed.

People need to stop buying diamonds Theyre not as valuable as you may think

Forests are my favorite place to be; they feel like home. I have lived in Maine my entire life, which is mostly covered in forest, so that certainly contributes to my love for them. Forests were considered sacred for most of human existence, and it should have stayed that way.

As a Brazilian i can say its sad to see our forest being destroyed...

wow!! the ratio of the quality of these videos to the number of views is rage inducing. these deserve millions

Local man painstakingly traces forests himself to get accurate measures only to get a mere lousy 1398 views.

2:55: It's not true that the Primorye Forest is the only place on earth that bears, tigers and leopards coexist. Many places in South and Southeast Asia are home to all three taxa.

These Soviets really like their forests.

I appreciate your use of the metric system

Massive props for tracing out those forests yourself & for providing/suggesting the idea to help donate in their preservation. You do some serious quality work in your videos and should be commended for your efforts. 🙂

The Pudu deer is the cutest thing I’ve seen in a while.

Nice commentary. Although I notice a correction at 2:59 when you mention about Primorye forests. You say it is the only place on earth where tiger, leopard and bear co-exist. That is not correct, there is Western Ghats in South India where they live in same ecosystem. It’s an evergreen forest system that’s spanned on three states - kerala, tamil nadu and karnataka.

I own and live on 36 acres in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas. Having relocated from southern California in 2004, it is a hidden gem - a true paradise.

Great Research... Great Work ... 2:55 to 3:00 Sloth Bears, Bengal Tigers and Leopards co-exist in the forests of Southern Western Ghats of India too

Hi, I'm from Romania and I want to announce that even the government and the country's president agree to clear the forests in Romania, and no one is taking any action!

As I remember from New Zealand, the native forests look rather like the temperate rainforest in Chile than those high-elevation alpine forests. The coniferous forest in the foreground of Mount Cook looks like one of the numerous plantation forests for logging you can find there.

In my opinion there are plenty of forests and woodlands that need to be protected worldwide. Even the smallest ones, that we have near our houses need to be saved. Each tree we walk by helps us in so many levels and yet some "people" simply close their eyes on the importance of a tree or a small area containing half a dozen of trees. Like in the Lord of the Rings, "but the hearts of men are easily corrupted". Everyone, everywhere, we must protect the Earth. Have a wonderful weekend, blessed Christmas (or your local cerimonies), a beautiful end of the year/new year. I truly hope your life gets blessed and better. ♥

2018 people come to watch all forest 2019 people come just for Amazon

The more i learn about things like this, the more i feel ashamed to be of the same species like those who kill this wonderful planet.

The Valdivian forest is undoubtedly impressive, its landscape diversity is unparalleled. You can find dry forests, Mediterranean forests, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, temperate rainforests, mixed forests, glaciers, high mountains and more! 🌲🌳🍁🍂🌴🇦🇷🇨🇱

Jeff Bezos should go all in on preserving the Amazon rainforest

I want to go to a place that hasn't changed in 140 million years...but the natives aren't very hospitable. I suppose that's one way to conserve your forest!

Nice video. We are in great need of paying attention to how we work with the remaining forests. By the way, Javan rhino is the most rare rhino species, and I would also call colugos by that name to avoid confusion with true lemurs (those are endemic to Madagascar).

Revisiting in 2023 for nostalgia! This video first popped up in my recommended on Christmas Eve a few years ago, and I immediately became captivated. My academic interests have shifted over the years, and watching this video, along with becoming obsessed with your channel, helped lead to yet another passion of mine: environmental science. Now I'm studying environmental science in college, and I really think this is the right path for me. Thank you for all the amazing content you put out. Not only is it awesome to be able to learn so much stuff through your videos, but you've genuinely helped shape my academic path and perhaps my future.

Bears, Tigers, and Leopards coexist in many parts of India, Nepal, and Bhutan.

I see your subscriptions are growing by thousands everyday, I think your time to shine has come.. the videos are high quality and informative

Hello from a Canadian forest boy! Wish my government was doing more to protect the forests here.

I am sad to announce tht the last Sumatran Rhino in Malaysian part of Borneo has died & hv been declared extinct (in Malaysia). 😢

Several saplings took root in my yard some time back. My brother was like, ' Oh, okay, might as well remove those. ', and I was like, ' Hang on. Let 'em grow. What's the problem ? '. Now got a fancy little cluster of 4 or 5 trees going for about 5 more yards of tree cover going in the world. Some carbon sequestration which otherwise would not have occurred.

Change your search engine from google to ecosia, with all your searches they plant trees

This video deserves more recognisation... It's not a funny task to sit for hours and research for valid measurements and information we got to know here...Thanks for the video...it inspired me... maybe I can't go out and plant a whole forest but I can spread inspiration by sharing this video... 🤗🤗🤗

"x-men origins: wolverine", and the blip-photo... that cracked me up. Great videos, AP!

Whos here because of the Amazon rainforest burning

There has been a successful recreation attempt whereas they dumped orange scraps onto infertile land in the Amazon. 20 years later there was trees all over the place

Your wholistic understanding of how complex systems developed and interact allows you to paint a bigger picture story on your channel. Amazing content as always

Hurts my heart to see Amazon forest burning 💔

This is one of the finest channels on KZfaq. And I'm saying that after only 2 videos. As long as you keep it factual and not preachy, you will remain high on my list.

one mistake I noticed: 5,500,000 square kilometers is much less than the entire united states.

There should have been a law or rule w/e way back in the day where "if you cut down a tree, you plant two more in its place"

I've always wondered why the great northern forests were all pines. So interesting!

I really rarely ever take the time to comment on KZfaq, but this was excellent. Thank you my friend. Outstanding in depth research about a truly worthy topic. Yours is a channel that I genuinely hope spreads.

You are such an underrated channel, glad to see your videos reaching 100k views, even some having more than 1mil.

Leopards, bears and tigers exist together in almost all forests of India..!!

Fyi, several forests in India got Tiger, Leopards and Bears coexisting.

Valdivian forest. The most adorable place on earth.

Small correction - 7:19 Bamboo is a grass, not a tree :)

Your yt videos are those kind of videos where I press like button before watching in case I forget doing it after watching. you are doing great job

"Shells never belonged to anyone. The same goes for the sea and the land." A very good quote from a character who ended up taking the wrong path. In a way, I agree. It's weird how much one species has changed the world so dramatically to the detriment of most other species on the planet. I wonder if it's really okay that us humans get to decide what belongs to us.

This is one list where I'm glad Canada is on 2nd place and short of Canada growing more forest. I would hate to become 1st on this list if the Amazon rain forest goes away.

Wow this made me incredibly sad

Please keep updating, its clear crisp and uplifting. We all need to come together.

2:58 Bears, Tigers and Leopards co-exist in Western Ghats of South India and probably also in the rainforests of North East India. So, that information is wrong 8:38 Javan Rhino is the rarest in the world 9:36 Papua New Guinea is not a part of South East Asia, although West Papua is politically a part of Indonesia.

🎄 Trees are the earth lungs why are we cutting em down

This is probably one of the best videos I have ever seen on KZfaq. Kudos to your effort and thank you for making this video. I subscribed to your channel a month or so ago and the quality of the videos you make is amazing! I hope your channel grows by leaps and bounds. :)

I recently discovered your channel and so far all the videos I've watched are rich in information and in detail. Will definitely come back for more :D

What a superb piece of work! Thank you for the huge efforts in creating it!

Who else saw Wolverine at 13:34, played by Hugh Jackman, flash for about 0.25 seconds?

Thank you for your work in producing this. I was a Forestry major in school. I can appreciate the comments on diversity and species. This is one those videos that should be should in every Biology classroom in the US. 20 minutes. A small investment for making students aware of the ecosystems on this planet. Assign small groups to research the climate and species mentioned for each forest and how cutting and climate change are affecting each forest.

Vanakam , thank you for preserving biodiversity & ecosystems which, save the planet 🌎 from erosion, air pollution and excessive heatwaves 🌦🦚

Respect on the detail rich coverage of each of the forests! This is a treasure trove of a video! Thank you. P.S. Go Forests!

@5:04 the sunda flying lemur isn't technically a lemur, or a primate at rather that is just a name given. Scientists still aren't sure how to classify it as it is an oddball animal. Still, I love these videos, and the over all quality is great. Keep up the great work, can't wait for this channel to reach Million+ subscribers!

Commentary on the #10 forest (Russia) said only place on earth where bears, tigers and leopards are found, which is not true. Most forests in India have bears, leopards and tigers coesxisting. What many also don’t know is India also has the only wild population of Asian lions, so you can add them well to that list. But still great video

Indonesia have to take care (more) their forests. including me as Indonesian.

You are so professional, you deserved more viewers

I’m amazed at how much work went into this video. Learned a whole bunch. Bravo and thanks 🙏

Please humans dont destroy the beauty of our mother earth !!!!!

Regarding the Canadian Boreal Forest: one big factor that protects much of it is the simple fact that we have a fair bit of non-boreal, managed, second-and-third growth forests as well. The coast of BC is non-boreal, largely having a strong backbone of douglas fir, which is an excellent wood for most uses of timber (it is fairly soft and relatively plain, so it can't really compete with the hardwood industry out in southern Quebec and New England bits of the US, or the tropical hardwoods with their fancy fine grains and rich colours). It grows fairly quickly, with many wood lots being suitable for harvesting every 20-30 years rather than the 40-80 year turnover of most slower growing trees. So...large swathes of the Canadian Boreal Forest are unprotected because there's no real need to - it's not economical to harvest trees in a wintery hellscape when they take twice as long to grow as the trees that grow in the place that will usually just make you cold and wet. Also, about 94% of Canada's forests are on crown lands. That is: land owned by the government (technically led by the Queen of Canada, better known as the Queen of England, but also the Queen of Many Other Places, hence "crown"). While it may be true that only 8% of it is in designated protected lands, (the source I found said 12%, but I'm not going to quibble), the government has full regulatory authority over most of Canada's forests. You can't just walk up into one of these forests with a chainsaw and start cutting. (Well, you can, because there are way more trees in Canada than law enforcement people, but if you keep doing it and try to sell the wood and all, you're definitely getting arrested.) And what *is* forested is subject to stringent regulations as to what kind of work is permitted. Any waterway has a riperian reserve around it in which forestry is forbidden. "Clearcuts" have to leave something like 10% of the trees standing because for several of the birds we're actively working to protect, their nest habitat is "anything that's poking significantly above the canopy capable of supporting a nest." (Given these are eagles and hawks and such, load bearing branches are actually relevant - these are not the featherweight songbird types.) Some percentage of each landscape unit (a specific fairly small region of forest) has 30 to 70% of every ecosystem type put into reserves. (So if you've got a simple one that's half douglas fir and half red cedar, that percent that gets designated as a reserve applies to each of those independently.) The actual process of doing this is a hell of a lot more complicated because most LUs have a couple dozen different ecosystems, some of which are very small percentages of them. There's protections on nest trees for bald eagles, goshawks, and a few other species. All in all, it's an astonishing amount of red tape. And this is in actively forested lands that forestry companies are leasing. The majority of forested lands are just empty wilderness as far as humans are concerned - far enough out from any community that it's honestly just not worth going out there even if you could log them. Canada, is one of the largest expanses of largely unsettled land - we have 3.8 people per square kilometer for the country, and at least 2/3 of that number are crammed into the 4% of the country within 100km of the southern border. (The chunk of the US that is not Alaska). (Some people claim more, I'm going by a report released by Statscan based on the 2016 census.) So if you write off that chunk, you come to 1.3 people per square kilometer for 96% of the country...and 63.4 people per square kilometer for the other 4%. So most of Canada is about half as settled as Australia or Siberia (which is not a country, but is a big chunk of Russia that is famously not heavily settled. (Australia weighs in at 3.4 people per square kilometer, while Siberia weighs in at 2.6.) (Of course, there is probably an intelligent way to slash those numbers down for large chunks of Australia and Siberia as well, I just don't know the logical region to point out as being the place with most of the people) Right now (and in the forseeable future), our biggest threat to the Canadian Boreal Forest isn't foresters, it's climate change. One issue we've had crop up is the pine beetle - at least one species of which originated fairly far north in BC. Historically, harsh early winters caused large percentages of its population to die off every few years (it has to be early because they produce a biological antifreeze when they go into hibernation that keeps them alive), which kept them from spreading in large numbers. We've not had one of those winters in far too long, allowing pine beetle populations to soar and allowing their range to expand south beyond the point of freezing. Large chunks of the southern part of the boreal forest in BC have died off, thanks to the uncontrolled pine beetle infestation. Ironically, the best thing we can do for carbon sequestration in these areas is _as much forestry as possible_. These large stands of standing dead, dry, wood are excellent fuel for forest fires, and we've had several bad years in that regard recently. By cutting that wood and putting it to use in timber frame construction, we at least delay the carbon sequestered in that wood from being released in the unstoppable inferno these dead forests will inevitably become. It will rot eventually (unless we haul it to a peat bog and throw it in, I suppose), but even delaying the release of carbon to some future date is good. And good timber frame construction with a properly designed water envelope lasts quite a long time. Long enough that if we're still around to be deciding what to do about the rot in these buildings, we've probably got an intelligent solution for carbon sequestration up and running.

I noticed one mistake : 5,5 million squared kilometers is not the size of the United States including Alaska but only half of it.

Your videos are so good I had to become a patreon (first time becoming a patreon)! Keep up the quality work!

I love this channel! You do such a good job organizing your content and stimulating graphics, keep up the good work!!!

Don't know why these types of videos are disliked by some special ones, i think that those who dislike these type of videos are the most negative people alive. #savethedate #saveearth

Wow, what an excellent Doco, I'm actually amazed at how much forests the world still has.

I think rain forest and temperate forest should be a separate list

13:34 Lol X:men origins:wolverine

Very important information and well researched and put together. Will spread it though my network that already is interested in preservation and growth of Nature away from human intervention. All the high five 🙌🏼 from here and thank you for your beautiful and intelligent reflections. 🌱🌍🌻🐝🍃🌴

Bears tigers and leopards co exist together all over India . Please note channel host. We have a black sloth bear in most of India and Himalayan bear in the northern mountains

Hey, this is a great video, thank you for uploading it! I was wondering if you could please provide the study you mention about the profitability of clearing the Amazon Forest vs sustainable harvesting, please? Also if you left the rest of your references in the video description it would be absolutely awesome. Thanks again.

Bamboo is NOT a tree, it’s actually a species of grass

a correction* - Bears, Tigers and leopards are found in many of our Indian forests too.

i am really happy i found your channel! great work !

I really love your videos. Particularly the one son the longest rivers, and the origins of fruits and spirces. A quick ocrrection on this one, tho. You say that bears, leopards and tigers are only found in Primorye forest. Not true. The sloth bear, bengal tiger and the leopard live in the same areas, all across India and other parts of South Asia. Similarly the ranges of the snow leopard, tigers and himalayan black bear overlap. Perhaps you meant, tigers, leopards and "brown" bears.

Each and every one wants to think about this and protect the rainforest. Thank u for creating these clear form of this rainforest. Save nature

From the map, you have to question how deforestation is so effective in Asia.

I never thought the Soviets would be the ecological type.

We desperately need to protect these wonderful and vital places!

The least they can do is plant new trees to replace the ones they’ve cut down so the forest have a good and chance of growing back instead of decreasing.

A tremendous overview. More people need to see this and wake up to the importance of the world's ecosystems and the need to protect them.

2:55 Bear, Tiger, Leopard and Elephant are co exist together naturally i India and Indonesia. In Indonesia it's in Sumatera Leuser ecosystem.