Citing the threat of Global warming on skiing areas, around 45 resorts in 14 states have moved to adopt 'Green energy' for their skiing activities. 16 resorts have gone a few steps further, and are receiving 100 percent of their power from clean...
Archive - October 2006
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Disposal of haphazard construction, toxic ingredients, and rapidly increasing ocean temperature are causing life threat to coral reefs and it is suspecting that more than half of the coral reefs could spoil in the next 25 years. These concerned were...
Location: Tobacco Caye, Belize
Rates: $49 to $59 double occupancy, including meals
Activities: Snorkeling (rentals; $7.50 per day), scuba diving, fishing, sightseeing tours ($37.50 for up to four people)
Gaviota Coral Reef Resort is located on...
Thanks to national geographic we now have the photographs of the orchids discovered in Papua New Guinea
Dendrobium spectabile
A bright, flamelike bulb of an Orchid
Cadetia kutubu
Taeniophyllum, Species to be given
Absolutely...
Often referred as "tiankeng," or "sky holes" near the southern Chinese city of Guilin they are 2,000-foot-deep wonders. The main factor to them is an underground river. It is the waterof the river that dissolves limestone to make caves, the roofs...
After Norway it is the second country to do so. Iceland had halted whaling altogether in 1990 but in 2003 resumed for what it called scientific reasons. The authority given allows whalers to hunt 30 minke whales and nine fin whales (endangered...
Location: P.O. Box 252, Blackheath 2785 Australia.
Rates: $60 to $130 per night, double occupany, two night minimum
Activities: Birding, guided bushwalks, biking, golf, Horse Riding, Abseiling, Hand Gliding, Yoga
Just two hours outside...
Location: 17A E. 73 St., New York, NY 10021
Rates: $105 per night for tent cottages to $185 per night for bedroom studios; reduced rates available during off-peak season
Activities: Diving, snorkeling, hiking, wind surfing
Maho Bay is...
They have been found around the Kikori region surrounding Lake Kutubu. WWF forest ecologist Olo Gebia is quoted to have said:
"Around 70 species of orchid that used to exist in the forests of neighboring Indonesia have become extinct because of...
Discount is being offered by the first, Australian Antarctic Adventure company: Adventure Associates
Early booking discount: Of US$250 or US$500 per person is available on selected departures for reservations made with deposit by 30 March...
American Pro Diving Center has been running Manatee dive and snorkel tours over 15 years. It will be a pleasure to go with a company for whom Preservation through hands on education is the goal.
One of their best tours is Homosassa Manatee...
The grandeur of Torres del Paine national park
Cuernos del Paine
Glacial Shifts: Bernardo O'Higgins park
Valle del Frances, on the Paine Circuit
This is aTrekkers Paradise
Via: Concierge
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