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...The bird was listed as ‘lost’ by the American Bird Conservancy and had gone more than 20 years without being seen....
...Pride Rock, where the ensemble do their “Circle of Life” thing in the film, looks like the sere escarpments in Borana and Lewa Conservancies (Favreau’s team apparently looked to the Chyulu Hills, some 40...
...Its views span “from the Pacific Ocean out front, to the snow-capped mountains in the back”, says Tom, a fashion entrepreneur who recently launched the digital home furnishings platform Abask....
...“The community have only done this because they want a return, and suddenly there were no paying guests and thus no $150 a day per guest conservancy fees,” said Storm....
...Across the mountains of British Columbia, backcountry huts like this are enjoying a surge in popularity....
...Organised by the African wildlife conservation charity Tusk, this marathon gives its 1,500 or so competitors the unique opportunity to run alongside zebra, giraffe and plains antelope in the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy...
...Green mountains were hollowed out to leave bare stones....
...Many people feel mountain gorillas are valuable. Few pay to visit these rare apes in Rwanda. Measuring tangible benefits, such as water purification and pollination is easier....
...It is run by a for-profit company, Ranchlands, but sits on land owned by a charity, The Nature Conservancy....
...The apples we know are the love child of the wild apples of the Tian Shan mountains in China and the small, hard, bitter European crab apple....
...Every fourth or fifth day until mid-April, rains rolled in, imparting a bit of cinematic bombast to the skies above the Santa Lucia mountains, which ripple with grass so green they could be in Cork....
...The men engage in fly-fishing, wine-tasting and economic debate amid the mountains’ pristine beauty....
...A year ago, the photographer Samuel James moved from New York to a cabin in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in southern Ohio. He arrived in May, at the beginning of firefly season....
...Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, home to the last northern white rhinos, expects a 50 per cent reduction in tourism funding....
...The waves of plastic waste landing on south-east Asian shores only add to the region’s own mountain of trash....
...Wild leafy vegetables from the slopes of the Carmel mountains form the base, plus a grating of kishk — dried fermented yoghurt....
...Those who ran away had to grow plants in order to survive in thick woods and mountains....
...The “pristine” resort island of Koh Tao has a 45,000-tonne garbage mountain....
...Working under advice from the Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust in Leh, he persuaded neighbouring farmers to spread wire mesh over their animal pens, which reduced attacks by snow leopards by 90 per cent...
...One of those conservancies is Sera — 1,300 sq miles of sun-scorched wilderness north of the frontier town of Archer’s Post and east of the Samburus’ sacred mountain, Ololokwe....
...She also made notable contributions to the Land Trust of Napa County, Garden Conservancy, Yosemite Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land....
...Scotland is also attracting growing overseas attention, both for its vibrant cities and mountain wildernesses....
...There is plenty of wildlife, though the conservancy is less chock-full of animals than, say, the Maasai Mara. That makes each sighting a moment to savour....
...One answer, in the form of a grand epiphany, was given by the naturalist John Muir when he spent months in the Yosemite Valley in 1869-1871: “We are now in the mountains, and they are now in us, making every...
...He is referring to one of the photographs decorating his Seattle office, home to The Nature Conservancy’s Washington State chapter....
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