In my nearly 12 years of running mongabay.com, I have had the good fortune to visit spectacular forests around the world. So this Earth Day, instead of writing something pithy (Jeremy has done a fine job in his Earth Day post recognizing the value of what nature gives us), I’m just posting some of my favorite forest pictures I’ve taken in my travels.
If you are a long-time mongabay reader, you’ve probably noticed my tradition of not writing anything Earth Day-related on Earth Day. This is intentional, but in 2005 I did write about what spurred me to create mongabay.com back in the late 1990’s: Earth Day: Another gimmick day full of false promises and empty pledges or a day of reflection?.
Rainforest tree in Sabah, Malaysia

Rainforest in Panama

Looking up the inside of a strangler fig tree

Redwood forest of Van Damme State Park

Rainforest in Panama

Rainforest leaves

Rainforest in West Kalimantan, Indoneian Borneo

Idaho inlet in Alaska’s Inside Passage

Arfak cloud forest
Sunset over the Borneo rainforest
Sunset over the Borneo rainforest

Rainforest in Panama

Bamboo in Panama

Rainforest in Panama

Rainforest in Panama

Rainforest understory in Indonesian Borneo

Cypress forest in the Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana

Rainforest in Panama