Hey Vancouver, meet your friendly neighborhood rainforest! That's right, the forests that surround our urban cities are part of the Coastal Temperate Rainforest, one of the worlds most unique, biologically diverse ecosystems! In this video you will learn how to easily identify some of the most common plant species in our urban forests. Stay tuned, our series on the rainforest has only just begun!

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Where is the Coastal Temperate Rainforest
01:37 Biogeoclimatic zones
03:07 How to identify the most common plants in the Coastal Temperate Rainforest
07:48 Endangered species of the Coastal Temperate Rainforest
08:16 Our research
09:19 How you can protect our urban rainforests

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