What will you find in a Costa Rican jungle Nature has a way of creating jungle as this will usually be found alongside rivers, where there have previously been forest fires caused by lightning, or where damage has been caused by a hurricane. Where deforestation takes place, jungle takes over, unless the land is replanted commercially, as is happening in countries such as Malaysia and Borneo. One of the main reasons there is a lower percentage of jungle in Costa Rica in relation to overall land mass compared other South American counties is through the preservation of the rainforest. Jungle exists where the rainforest canopy is either sufficiently thin to let in a reasonable amount of light, or where there is no forest as such. As a consequence, the environment underneath this canopy tends to be slightly more spartan, which also explains why 90% of all creatures which inhabit a rainforest do so high in the trees and not at ground level. In the simplest of terms, rainforest tends to, unsurprisingly, comprise trees, the foliage of which creates a canopy which is relatively impermeable to light. While both exist in abundance, there is a less than subtle difference between the two. You may often find that the words jungle and rainforest are frequently interchanged when talking about the Costa Rican ecosystem.
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