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As part of the 2011 BioBlitz in Saguaro National Park, NG Explorer-in-Residence J. Michael Fay walked some 70 miles over seven days on a transect across park and city, noting all the plants and animals along the way. Experience the whole exhilarating journey for yourself.
Posted by Saguaro National Park, bordering Tucson, Arizona, has been named as the host site for the 2011 National Park Service/National Geographic BioBlitz, scheduled for October 21 and 22, 2011. “Part scientific endeavor, part festival and part outdoor classroom, BioBlitz is a two-day celebration of biodiversity centered on a 24-hour race to count species. During the BioBlitz,…
Cameroon is about to recognize its portion of Lake Chad as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, the Switzerland-based conservation charity WWF said today. WWF, which partnered with the Lake Chad Basin Commission, the Ramsar Convention and the Global Environment Facility on projects in Lake Chad and with the governments on achieving…
South Africa’s Karoo region is a sprawling heartland that separates the grasslands and industrial northern and eastern parts of the country from the vineyards and craggy coastal belt of the Cape. Travelers speeding by road or rail between Cape Town and Johannesburg see little more than scrubland broken by flattop hills South Africans call koppies. Small towns flash by, seemingly assembled from a standard construction…
