Coastal Rain Forest
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Did you know that we have rainforests here on Kvernes? It is often thought that rainforests are something that are found in southern parts and not here in Norway. But you are now standing in the middle of a rainforest. Maybe, you think this is impossible. But it is not, for this is a coastal rainforest, which stretches along the coast of Vestlandet up to and including Nordland. And such forests are only found in four other areas in the whole world. We can find them in abundance in Chile and Argentina, New Zealand and Australia, in the south-eastern corner of the Black Sea - Georgia and Turkey, and along the Pacific coast from Alaska to North California. Here in the North-western part of Europe this type of forest can be found in Scotland, Norway, Ireland and Iceland but in these areas much of the rainforest has been destroyed. It is therefore imperative to take care of the remaining rainforest. A coastal rain forest is a temperate forest, which means that it is a forest with constantly high humidity. Here the oxygen level in the earth is low, and this in addition to low temperatures mean that decomposers fail to decompose everything, which provides good conditions for the formation of bogs and a large biological diversity.