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Tuesday 28 August 2012

Kasanka National Park in Zambia

             Kasanka National Park in Zambia
 Kasanka National Park located in Northern Zambia just west of the Luangwa Valley.It is first national parks of Zambia.It is also 1st private national park.This park privately funded Kasanka Trust Ltd has taken on all administration responsibilities, in affiliation with the Zambian Wildlife Authority, and has been in operation back 1986.Kasanka isalso a beautiful wilderness of woodland, plains, lakes, rivers and swamps in the North of Zambia.
Kasanka National Park

The park has become a focus of bounded bread-and-butter development through employment, tourism acquirement sharing, and abstruse abutment from the Trust. Administration activities conducted by Kasanka cover anti-poaching, blaze management, infrastructure, tourism development and advance of applied and accurate research. Community abutment programmes run by the Trust accept helped surrounding communities to accomplish absolute allowances from bigger ability administration as able-bodied as acceptable with education, health, HIV/AIDS, and alimentation support.

 There have many rivers and marshes are home to a wide range of (reed)frogs and other amphibians. Large crocodiles dwell in the rivers and huge specimens can be seen along the Kasanka and Luwombwa Rivers. Large Nile monitors occur as well, as do Speke’s hinged tortoise. Common snake species include African rock python, forest cobra, lined olympic snake, olive marsh snake and herald snake.

marsh snake

 marsh snake

 Kasanka National Park world heritage site listed in 2nd july 2012  meeting in the Russian city
.really it is attractive place,this attraction for visitors it forms a valuable protected area for many endangered species.

Western Ghats mountain in india




                  Western Ghats mountain in india

The Western Ghats mountain the range that runs along the western coast of India, from the Vindhya-Satpura ranges in the north to the southern tip.The mountains cover an area of about 160,000 sq km (61,776 sq miles) stretching from the country's southern tip to Gujarat in the north The ecosystems of the Western Ghats are amid mainly in the afterward regions: the close wet beloved forests in Amboli and Radhanagari; the Montane beloved forests in Mahabaleshwar and Bhimashanker; clammy deciduous forests in Mulsi and the abrade backwoods in Mundunthurai.

Western Ghats mountain in india
The forests includenon-equatorial close beloved forests and are home to at atomic 325 globally-threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, bastard and fish species Almost one-third of all the beginning plant species in India are begin in this region. Of the 450-odd plants begin in this region, 40% are ancient (these are breed that accept acclimatized to this accurate breadth and the altitude absolute in it.) There is an according assortment of beastly and bird life. There is alone one biodiversity assets in the Western Ghats, the Nilgiri biodiversity reserve,which helps in attention ancient and endangered species. A few of the aboriginal and alien timberline and bulb breed in the Western Ghats are the teak, jamun, cashew, hog plum, coral tree, jasmine, and crossandra.

coral tree




















 At a meeting in the Russian city in 2 july 2012 on Sunday , Unesco delegates decided to give World Heritage Site listed Western Ghats.it 5th natural world heritage site in india.really western gates is beautiful mountain in the world.

Wednesday 25 July 2012

Lakes of Ounianga in Chad

                       Lakes of Ounianga in Chad



Lake of Ounianga suited in North-Eastern Chad, in a hot and hyperarid arid ambience with beneath than 2mm condensate per year, the Lakes of Ounianga comprises a absolute of 18 lakes, in two groups, announcement a array of sizes, depths, colorations and actinic compositions. The area covers of 62,808 ha and has a 4,869 ha absorber zone. The Lakes of Ounianga acreage is suited in a basin which,less than 10,000 years ago, was active by a abundant beyond basin and has a globally different hydrological system, comestible the better abiding freshwater lakes arrangement in the affection of a hyperarid environment.


The acreage represents an aberrant archetype of abiding lakes in a arid setting, a arresting accustomed abnormality which after-effects from an aquifer and associated circuitous hydrological arrangement which is still to be absolutely understood. The artful adorableness of the website after-effects from a mural circuitous which includes the assorted coloured lakes with their blue, blooming and /or brownish waters, in absorption of their actinic composition, amidst by palms, dunes and amazing sandstone landforms, all of it in the affection of a arid that stretches over bags of kilometres. In addition, about one third of the apparent of the Ounianga Serir Lakes is covered with amphibian reed carpets whose acute blooming colour contrasts with the dejected accessible waters. Bedrock exposures which boss the website action a amazing appearance on all the lakes, of which the colours adverse with the amber beach dunes afar by bald bedrock structures. The appearance and administration of the lakes, accumulated with the aftereffect of the wind affective the amphibian frondescence in the lakes, gives the consequence of “waves of baptize abounding in the desert”

 The property has an effective management plan in place for the short and long term, and there are adequate resources and staffing provided its implementation and monitoring.There also hydrological arrangement of the Lakes of Ounianga is activity and the baptize akin is abiding afar from a slight melancholia variation, acknowledgment to a groundwater accumulation which compensates dehydration losses.


 It is a outstanding Universal Value of the property. Several local associations created at the initiative of the local governmental authorities and the local communities are also responsible for the conservation of the property. These activities are implemented with the support of a Local Management Committee, which provides input for improving the existing management plan.

Thursday 5 July 2012

Bialowieża Forest in Belarus

                          Bialowieża Forest in Belarus

Bialowieza Forest is Situated on the watershed of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. which has been reintroduced into the park.The backcountry spanning eastern Poland and western Belarus covers an breadth of 930 aboveboard kilometers and is apparently Europe's better and endure earliest forest. The Polish ancillary was registered in 1979, and the Belarus ancillary in 1992.Almost 90% of the park is covered with ‘old growth’ virgin stands of mixed broadleaved and conifer forests. Over 900 vascular plant species have been recorded, including 26 tree and 138 shrub species. Almost two-thirds are indigenous with the remainder being anthropogenic introductions.


 The park protects a part of the last and one of the better actual areas of European earliest lowland alloyed forest: pine, beech, oak, alder and spruce. The backwoods dates aback to 8000 BC and is the alone actual archetype of the aboriginal forests, which already covered abundant of Europe.


 There have  many species reintroduced into the park in 1929, elk, stag, roe deer, wild boar, lynx, wolf, fox, marten, badger, otter, ermine, beaver and numerous bats. It is also a showplace reserve for tarpan (Polish wild forest horse). The avifauna includes corncrake, white-tailed eagle, white stork, peregrine falcon and eagle owl.

 Białowieski Civic Esplanade is the oldest civic esplanade in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded as ‘Reserve’ forestry in 1921 but clearly accustomed as a Civic Esplanade in Białowieża in 1932. In 1947 it was adequate as the Białowieski Civic Park. At one time the acreage of Polish kings, the Białowieski Forests accept survived in an about changeless form. It is after agnosticism the a lot of admired accustomed breadth in the European lowlands.



Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Białowieża Forest world heritage site listed in 1992.it is a naturial beautiful place.

Sunday 1 July 2012

Pearling, testimony of an island economy in Bahrain

    Pearling, testimony of an island economy in Bahrain

 The Pearl Pathway located in Bahrain.Its will cover about 3.22km in South Muharraq and will affection a accustomed bank and barrio area individuals of the pearling association lived, formed and prospered over a period of 5,000 years including residences, mosques, souqs, amaras or warehouses and Majlis - the places for appropriate gatherings.The sactor of culture  site recognised as a World Heritage Site in FEBRUARY in 2011 but it is listed in 2012.

There have also  merchants who played such a arresting allotment during the pearling era will aswell be highlighted. There were two types - one was the area merchant who sold his appurtenances to traders openly and the additional was the tawawish, the sea merchants or the 'brokers' of chaplet who bought the gems openly from the dhow captains,

 The Bahrain Pearling, testimony of an island is also a tourism place .Every year there visit many people.There Tourism Authority is assisting in preparing the visitor plan and presenting the project as an attraction for tourists while involving the local population. And, the Economic Development Board is aiming to help integrate the project into Bahrain's national strategy and create new economical opportunities through it One of the central aims for the project is also to generate revenue for the local population of Muharraq.


Really this is a beautiful place.there also beauty is diving boat during the rany season.The pearl diving season was a very remarkable time.

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Miguasha National Park in Canada

                    Miguasha National Park in Canada

Miguasha National Park  is the most outstanding fossil site in the world for illustrating the Devonian as the “Age of Fishes”.It is a wonderful place in the world.Miguasha National park total area of 87 hactor.The park cover  with a square kilometer over a attenuated 2-kilometre-long band that takes in the fossil-bearing cliff. Preserving the bluff is the primary mission of Miguasha Park. To assure the fossil-rich outcroppings, a canning breadth covers the bluff and the beach-two thirds of the park's apparent area. The added third encompasses the amusement and account area.with.


At the Natural History Museum, visitors of any age can biking aback in time on a continued boating of discovery. The 1.5 hour guided appointment starts with a bout of the abiding exhibition, followed by a stop at the teaching lab. The appointment ends on the bank with a account of the mural and geological estimation of the cliff. The bout is adapted every year to accumulate clip with analysis on Miguasha's deposit fauna and flora.
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 Following taxa present an evolutive and phylogenetic interest: Archaeopteris belongs to Gymnosperma, Spermasposita is advised as the oldest beginning plant, while Petaloscorpio is the aboriginal earthbound scorpion. The macroflora includes 10 breed acceptance to the aboriginal vascular plants of Devonian forests, and the microflora is composed of 80 corpuscle species.





Miguasha National Park  world heritage site listed in 1999 .Really it is a awesome place in Canada.


Golden Mountains of Altai in RUSSIA

Golden Mountains of Altai in RUSSIA

Golden Mountains of Altai is a wonderful naturial beautiful place in  Russia.It is situated on the border of the Central Asia and southern Siberia in the Russia.Its total area is 1,611,457 hactor.Golden Mountains cover withAltaisky Zapovednik and a absorber area about Lake Teletskoye; Katunsky Zapovednik and a absorber area about Mount Belukha; and the Ukok Quiet Area on the Ukok plateau.

This comprehensive hilly are is the watershed amongst axial Japan and the Arctic Sea and contains the headwaters of the Katun and Baya waterways. The collection of these two waterways, above the abuttals of the selected website, types the Stream Ob at 5,410 km, the fifth-longest river on the globe, which moves arctic into the Arctic Sea. Common abatement overall look of large quantity mountains protect the 4,605 m Install Belukha, cirques and tunel valleys with container sinks, morainal mountains and side. The roots of the mountains can in approved be tracked aback to the Caledonian-Hercyninan interval, although stones of the Precambrian, Mesozoic and Cenozoic times are discovered. The person a lot of essential organization in the painting has been the accessibility of glaciation, with 5 arctic times in proof. Of 1,499 snow in the Altai area, abounding are aural the selected real estate asset, in the southern Altai build up and the axial Altai team. The gathering or amassing of ponds is aswell a precise passion of the site.

 

 The Altai area has a continental climate with all-inclusive contrasts between warm and rainy season  and algid winters with little snow awning in the valleys and canyons and abundant snow in the aerial areas. Mean anniversary temperatures are from 0°C with anniversary condensate of 500-700 millimeters mm. Mean boilerplate temperatures in July ambit from 15-17°C on the snow band in the mountains. Winters accept actual astringent altitude and an complete minimum of -62°C has been registered in the mountain valleys. 

 The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is a accord amid the United Nations Environment Programme, the world's foremost intergovernmental organization, and WCMC 2000, a UK-based charity.