It was the 15th of December, 1998, and we were walking through the moonlit forest, the snow cracking under our feet, then, a growl was heard, like a faraway thunder. But, the soft ‘pop’ of a tranquilizer dart was heard and hit its target. Ten minutes later, the tigress Amur (which we called Nadia) was sleeping placidly.
Available information dates back to the mid-20th century and it mainly sheds light on commercial whaling. Russian scientists get fragmentary information from the studies of their foreign colleagues, mainly from Norway, the United States and Canada.
At six million acres, New York’s Adirondack State Park is the largest protected landscape east of the Mississippi, larger than Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Everglades National Parks combined.
Very little is typical in the Empire State. Times Square’s Naked Cowboy earns his keep playing guitar in his skivvies.
This is indicated by the very name of this tree, which comes from the Middle East. Unfortunately, at present, it has almost disappeared from the Lebanese mountains due to the pressure their forests were subjected there for millennia since their wood is highly prized.
Navigating the waters of the Baja California peninsula might be a once in a lifetime experience, like encountering a pack of 300 sperm whales; meaning, three hundred times the image Ahab, that captain who was obsessed with the mythical white whale, chased in Moby Dick, the novel published by Herman Melville in 1851.
Mexico is distinguished as one of 17 megadiverse countries. This occurs due to the fact that it is found amongst the first places of lists related to the richness in several species.
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth in all its manifestations, from the smallest to the biggest, from the Dutch polder to the tropical rainforest, every type of life, genetic variation and habitat is unique and irreplaceable. Biodiversity is the most important quality of life.
Aruba is located in the heart of the southern Caribbean, at about a two and half hour flight from Miami, and 24 miles north of Venezuela.
Brazil is much more than football, samba and rhythm. There are also deep roots that inhabit in the people who live in this country, ready to be discovered.