Rainforests
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Alejandro de Humboldt National Park | ranging from lowland rainforest between 200m and 400m, submontane rainforest to 600m, montane rainforest above 600m (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Amami-Oshima Island | subtropical rainforests (AB ev) | |
| Angkor | ||
| Australian Convict Sites | Great North Road - Shepherds Gully is a rainforest gully that starts at the top of the Devines Hill (northern end of the inscribed area) | |
| Bale Mountains National Park | moist tropical rainforest | |
| Blue and John Crow Mountains | "Supplementary information provided by the State Party notes that the nominated property consists of tropical, montane rainforest, much of which is cloud forest between 850m and 2,256m." (IUCN ev) | |
| Brazilian Atlantic Islands | Insular Atlantic Forest - a subtype of Atlantic Rainforest (Fernando de Noronha) | |
| Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | ||
| Central Amazon Conservation Complex | "The forest cover of JNP is linked to the extensive and continuous tropical rainforests of the Amazon Central Plain" (AB ev) | |
| Central Highlands | ||
| Central Suriname Nature Reserve | ||
| China Danxia | Temperate Rainforest | |
| Chiribiquete National Park | ||
| Cocos Island | ||
| Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands | dominated by Colchic rainforests (AB ev) | |
| Darien National Park | ||
| Discovery Coast | ||
| Dja Faunal Reserve | ||
| Dong Phayayen | ||
| Fraser Island | ||
| Gondwana Rainforests | ||
| Gunung Mulu | "primarily lowland rainforest (40% of the area) and montane rainforest (20% of the area)." (AB ev) | |
| Gusuku of Ryukyu | The sacred forest of Sefa Utaki, Part of Gusuku Sites is Tropical Rainforest | |
| Iguazu National Park | part of the largest protected subtropical rainforest in the world (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Ivindo National Park | Situated in the lower Guinean Rainforest zone (AB ev) | |
| Jeju | Temperate Rainforest (Hallasan NP) | |
| Kaeng Krachan Forest | ||
| Kahuzi-Biega National Park | ||
| Kakadu National Park | ||
| Kii Mountain Range | Temperate Rainforest | |
| Kinabalu Park | "rich tropical lowland and hill rainforest (dominated by diptocarps) amounting to 35%" (AB ev) | |
| Komodo National Park | patches of tropical rainforest and mangrove (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Lopé-Okanda | ||
| Lorentz National Park | ||
| Los Katios National Park | pre-montane tropical rainforest (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Manu National Park | ||
| Morne Trois Pitons | ||
| Mount Hamiguitan | the site features several vegetation types of a tropical rainforest: dipterocarp, montane, typical mossy forest and mossy pygmy forest, with each forest type harboring endemic, threatened, rare and economically important plants and animal species (nom file) | |
| Mount Nimba | ||
| Mount Wuyi | "It is the largest, most representative example of a largely intact forest encompassing the diversity of the Chinese Subtropical Forest and the South Chinese Rainforest, with high plant diversity." (OUV crit X) | |
| Noel Kempff Mercado National Park | ||
| Nyungwe National Park | "The nominated component part of Nyungwe Natural Forest consists of montane rainforests" (AB ev) | |
| Odzala-Kokoua | "MFOK is part of the large tri-national Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM) landscape, which covers 10% of the Congo Basin rainforest" (AB ev) | |
| Okapi Wildlife Reserve | ||
| Olympic National Park | ||
| Paraty and Ilha Grande | "The property and its buffer zone present a natural amphitheatre of Atlantic Rainforest dropping down to Ilha Grande Bay" (OUV) | |
| Phong Nha - Ke Bang | ||
| Pitons of Reunion | Subtropical rainforests | |
| Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River | ||
| Rainforests of the Atsinanana | "represent circa 20-25% of the total area of rainforests remaining in Madagascar" (AB ev) | |
| Redwood | Temperate Rainforest | |
| Rio Abiseo National Park | ||
| Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve | ||
| Salonga National Park | ||
| Sangay National Park | ||
| Sangha Trinational | ||
| Singapore Botanic Gardens | ||
| Sinharaja Forest | ||
| South China Karst | Temperate Rainforest | |
| Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves | ||
| Tasmanian Wilderness | ||
| Te Wahipounamu | Temperate Rainforest | |
| Three parallel rivers of Yunnan | Temperate Rainforest | |
| Tikal National Park | The ruins lie among the tropical rainforests of northern Guatemala (wiki) | |
| Tropical Rainforest Sumatra | ||
| Ujung Kulon National Park | ||
| Vallée de Mai | ||
| Vat Phou | Phu Khao mountain is rainforest | |
| Victoria Falls | "riverine 'rainforest' within the waterfall splash zone is a fragile ecosystem of discontinuous forest on sandy alluvium, dependent upon maintenance of abundant water and high humidity resulting from the spray plume" (OUV) | |
| Virunga National Park | ||
| Western Ghats | ||
| Wet Tropics of Queensland | ||
| Yakushima | Temperate Rainforest | |
| Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art | "The geographical form of the nominated property components is intact and preserves a large area of tropical rainforest." (AB Ev) |
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