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October 19, 2021

The Fanal Forest on Madeira Island, Portugal

© Val Thoermer/Alam

Ancient laurel forest in mountain mist

Go back 15 million years and you'll find most of Southern Europe looking like this fantasy forest – thick, scrubby underbrush canopied by wizened laurel trees. An epoch or two of human agricultural advances cleared those ancient woods, but patches persist on a few temperate Atlantic islands – especially here on Madeira, a Portuguese-held island off northwest Africa.

The Fanal Forest, at almost 60 square miles, is the largest surviving laurel forest in the world. Ninety percent of the forest's growth remains uncut, and some of these long-in-the-root laurels have stood for 500 years.

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