<P> In 2001, the Centro de Investigación de Bosques Tropicales (Tropical Forest Research Center) reported: "Due to the high rate of endemism, the mass elimination of forest habitat in the Coastal region over the last half - century represents one of the greatest species extinction events in history ." The human consequences of regional deforestation have likewise been significant . The dramatic loss of forest cover over the last 50 years has altered the rain cycle and caused a sharp decline in regional precipitation . </P> <P> Whereas three generations ago the rainy season lasted eight months per year and the dry season four, that ratio has inverted, and now the rainy season barely lasts four months, followed by eight months of drought . Rivers that used to be viable year - round now run dry half of the year, crops fail, and droughts result in high death rates of livestock, an effect which is particularly acute during periods of theLa Nina ocean - atmosphere phenomenon . </P> <P> There are three small ecological reserves that protect remnants of the Pacific Equatorial Forest: Cerro Pata de Pajaro (Fundación Tercer Mundo), the Lalo Loor Dry Forest Reserve (Ceiba Foundation) and the Jama - Coaque Ecological Reserve (Third Millennium Alliance), which protect 1,000 acres, 500 acres, and 1250 acres respectively . </P> <P> The Three Forest Trail, established in 2010, is a 25 - km - long trail that connects the dry forest of the Lalo Loor Dry Forest Reserve with the rainforest of the Jama - Coaque Ecological Reserve via the cloud - forested mountain ridges . The trail is meant to function as an incentive for conservation, as all forest owners along the trail receive a percentage of the trail fees . </P>

Name any six countries where equatorial forest are found