Coniferous forests only dominate in the Borjomi Gorge and in the extreme western areas.

The landscape is covered mostly (86 of land area) by coniferous taiga forests and fens, with little cultivated land.

Cold coniferous forests predominate in the north of the country, supporting animal species such as moose and Asian black bear, along with over 120 bird species.

1alt. Tropical timber means non coniferous tropical wood for industrial uses, which grows or is produced in the countries situated between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

So his thought was that flooding in the north of Africa actually brought those coniferous trees down tens of thousands of years ago, and what resulted was this remarkable adaptation to this unique desert environment.

1. Tropical timber means non coniferous tropical wood for industrial uses for commercial uses , which grows or is produced in the countries situated between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn , whose area of natural distribution is restricted to this geographical limit .

I spoke to a biologist at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Capetown to ask him where he thought this remarkable plant came from, and his thought was that if you travel around Namibia, you see that there are a number of petrified forests, and the logs are all the logs are all giant coniferous trees, and yet there's no sign of where they might have come from.