It resembles a woodland, in which isolated knots of trees surround a few dense thickets of forest.

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Benito Ramos, of the national disaster agency, said the death toll was expected to rise once soldiers and police gained access to the far-flung villages isolated by floods, fallen trees and damaged communications.

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That immense forest is pockmarked in places by isolated lighter-green squares, where the trees have been felled and oil palm planted.

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The trees at Inverewe were cultivated from those found to have survived in a single isolated grove in Australia.

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