Look at the map first. What do you see? A lot of green, right?
Japan has many regions of vegetation. There is tropical forest, temperate forest, and coniferous forest. Temperate means most of the trees lose their leaves in the winter. Coniferous forest means that tress that do not have leaves, but needles. ( Things like spruce trees)
In Hokkaido there are many trees that do not loose their leaves. Some of the animals that live here include snow monkeys and brown bears.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32746775@N00/sets/72157616287444627/
On the the three islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu there are animals such as wild boars, tanuki, hawks, cranes and so on.
There are many kinds of beautiful trees on these islands too. Plum, oak, beech, chestnut and cherry trees are some of the trees that grow.
The islands are in the far south of Japan are tropical and have palm trees, lush forests and rare and tropical flowers and animals. There are also many rare and endangered animals.
I-ri-o-mo-te ( Iriomote wildcat)
The construction of dams, roads and other projects has endangered the lives of many animals in Japan
http://www.animalinfo.org/country/japan.htm
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