How to Use cloud forest in a Sentence

cloud forest

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  • Read Next World ‘Striking’ creature surprises scientists in Ecuador cloud forest.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
  • Three hours’ drive from the misty cloud forest, the city of Cobán is awash in color.
    — Max Falkowitz, Saveur, 28 Nov. 2018
  • There are cloud forests, coral reefs, dry forests, and rain forests to explore.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023
  • The cloudy spot on the satellite images turned out to be a surviving patch of cloud forest.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • From cloud forest hikes to chocolate farm tours, these are the best things to do in Costa Rica.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2023
  • The family went zip lining through a cloud forest, ate guinea pig, and cruised around the Galapagos.
    — Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2022
  • Most of the cloud forest suffered deforestation in the years that followed.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
  • There is some debate as to what constitutes cloud forest, if only in my head.
    — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Once over, hikers can then catch a train to the Inca Trail, completing the final stretch through the cloud forest and into the famous ruins.
    — Joe Minihane, CNN, 25 July 2022
  • But the beauty of the cloud forest hides a violent, tragic history.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 17 July 2018
  • In the 1970s, researchers were perplexed by the rapid, unexplained deaths of tree frogs and other amphibians in the cloud forests of Central America.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 10 May 2018
  • The new Origins Lodge in Costa Rica's northern cloud forest is the perfect place for a warm-weather getaway.
    — Jennifer Flowers, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2021
  • This vivid creature has only been spotted in a single stream in an isolated cloud forest in Venezuela.
    — Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2010
  • The path, sometimes manicured with paving stones, sometimes a muddy track, wound through thick cloud forests and was dotted with mosses, ferns, and bromeliads.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The fact that this species was alive and well in Tapichalaca’s cloud forest in southwest Ecuador galvanized them into action.
    — Doug Hansen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • San Francisco’s climate is uniquely suited to plants from cloud forests.
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Spend an afternoon hiking around the cloud forest on the upper slopes of the nearby volcano, Mombacho.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The unusual study, which tracked 15 species in Peru’s cloud forest, has now found that eye size can help predict where birds breed and feed—the bigger the eye, the smaller the prey or the darker the environment.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The country is one of the best in the world for outdoor adventure, from trekking through the tropical cloud forests in the mountains of Alajuela to surfing off the coast of Peninsula Papagayo.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2020
  • And while looking for this rare flower, researchers found nearly half a dozen plant species that are new to science -- yet another reason to help save the unique cloud forest.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Apr. 2022
  • At least 16 indigenous languages are spoken by people in the state’s eight regions, which span from the Pacific coast through cloud forests to arid valleys and mountains.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2019
  • In the few remaining patches of cloud forest in western Ecuador, a team of botanists and ecologists just found a flowering herb that scientists hadn’t seen in 40 years.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Logging had converted 70 to 90 percent of the region’s native cloud forest to pasture.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • When the golden toad was discovered in a Costa Rican cloud forest in the late 1960s, researchers observed hundreds of toads breeding in temporary pools at the start of the rainy season.
    — Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2010
  • That environment is upslope: The new rain frog, which is rare with a limited range in Ecuador's misty cloud forests, lives at least 1,150 feet higher than its relative.
    — Jaime Culebras, National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
  • High up in the cloud forests of Ecuador, the giant caecilian known as Caecilia pachynema (pictured above) is only known to come to the surface at night and during torrential rainstorms.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
  • Mashpi Lodge, Ecuador Immerse yourself in Ecuador’s cloud forest—home to endemic amphibians, ocelots, and more than 500 species of birds—at this high-design, three-story, glass-and-steel lodge.
    — Paul Rubio, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Sri Lanka’s lush rainforests are home to herds of Asian elephants who like to bathe in its rivers and monkeys that linger beside waterfalls, and mountaintop cloud forests heaving with primates.
    — Laura Kiniry, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Megadroughts encouraged farmers to clear and cultivate Andean cloud forests.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Specimens of both species were collected from the island’s cloud forests and subjected to DNA analysis, researchers said.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024

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