Scientists are narrowing the hunt down to the forest canopy and believe they are getting closer.
Plus, you should also not be surprised to see wild orangutans lurking on the riverbanks, or idly watching klotoks pass from the forest canopy.
While the latter now seems only to feed higher up in the forest canopy, the former two vanished from upper North Island in the late 19th century.
About 80ft high, I'd guess, it is beautiful rather than vast - a rushing stream that catches the light from an opening in the forest canopy and plunges into a pool where there were two people bathing, and from which, surprisingly, they produced a large basket of freshwater crabs.
Within the forest's canopy, the Maisin clear patches for their crops and hunt wild animals for meat.
The landing strip is just a tiny break in the rain forest's canopy.
Unfortunately the 2007 iF Award-winning stove is only a concept for now -- meaning you won't see it on sale at Target anytime soon -- so if you want a real bonfire whose flames kiss the forest's leafy canopy, a crew of indentured campers is still your best bet.
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Odzala is characterized by a rich variety of habitats, including primary rain forest with a closed canopy (e.g. with Entandrophragma utile, E. candollei and E. cylindricum) and open understorey layer, forests dominated by dense formations of Marantaceae, forest clearings and savannas on the hilltops (e.g. with Hymenocardia acida, Annona arenaria or Hyparrhenia diplandra).
There was a tall lodgepole pine forest, very dark, high canopy on one side, and on the other side, a meadow with a few trees and some yarrow and some fireweed, some of the flowers that grow here.
Winding through the hills, the surrounding forest enclosed the road in a verdant canopy, with roadside kiosks sprouting out of it to sell empanadas (meat and potato-filled fried pastries), mofongo (mashed plantains filled with meat and vegetables, served in savoury sauce) and beach towels bearing graphics of bikini-clad women.
Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.
Invariably, the cloud forest will seem well named, as tendrils of mist drift through the canopy.
If preventing fungal attack were the explanation, he argues, young red leaves ought to be more common in a forest's wet understorey, where fungi thrive, than in the drier canopy.
ECONOMIST: Young leaves, as well as old ones, are often coloured red
The woodcutters and gold prospectors may be long gone, but travellers can still relive this fascinating historic era through a series of forest walking trails that evoke the vanished world of the woodcutters, winding beneath the canopy along rust-coloured streams dappled with sun and shadow.
The Forest Timber Camping Decks comprise of raised platforms among the trees, making for great spots to scan the canopy for Knysna loeries while the boerewors (beef sausage) sizzles on your braai (barbecue).
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