"Not miles and miles of unbroken forest".
The bai, in the middle of otherwise unbroken forest, is kept clear by the elephants themselves.
For all of that, the unbroken forest that once covered much of the continent is now shot through with holes.
The Congo basin holds about one-fourth of the world's tropical forests and is the largest stretch of unbroken forest in the world aside from the Amazon.
Siberian Taiga Earth's largest unbroken forest, this is among the last regions vast enough to allow populations of large predators to interact naturally with prey.
But a new study--the first to consider population changes across the entire home range for several bird species--reveals a surprisingly simple explanation: Species that tend to nest in fragmented areas are hit harder than ones that seek out unbroken forest.
As the black-throated blue warbler requires large, unbroken forest areas for nesting, its numbers are declining.
In 1816 the family moved north across the Ohio River to Indiana, a free, non-slaveholding territory, where they settled in an "unbroken forest" in Hurricane Township, Perry County.
Recreational areas in the Omaha area include Fontenelle Forest, the largest unbroken native forest in the state, to the south, and De Soto National Wildlife Refuge to the north.
Terrain that appeared from a distance, or even from a slight angle, to be a dense tangle of unbroken rain forest looked from directly overhead like moth-eaten fabric, where small and medium-sized clearings opened up to reveal a field of charred tree stumps, interspersed with crops or, at least as often, simply abandoned.
