The salt basins of the Atacama Desert in the high Andes are formidable places to call home. Located in a desert atop a high-altitude plateau in the middle of a lofty white-capped Andean cordillera of volcanoes and mountains, these austere basins are among the most ...
Web Resources: Huascarán National Park Huascarán National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Huascarán) is a national park in the Andes. It is a Natural Heritage of Humanity and recognized as Reserve of Biosphere Core. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/333 The Mountain Institute Conservation of the alpine grasslands known as paramo. ...
Living Edens: Temple of the Tigers explores how one of the subcontinent's most magnificent and endangered animals fulfills its destiny in a remote nature preserve that also shrouds the ruins of a long-fallen empire.
ROYAL BENGAL TIGER Species Name: Panthera tigris tigris Habitat: Jungle and grasslands of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, and Nepal Reproduction: The average litter contains two to five cubs; they are completely dependent on their mothers for the first 18 months of their lives. Diet: Tigers ...
Web Sites National Geographic Channel: India http://www.nationalgeographic.co.in/explore/otbt/bandhavgarh.asp Detailed account of a filmmaker's visit to Bandhavgarh, which included an encounter with the tiger Charger. The site also features a useful factsheet about the park. GORP: India's National Parks http://www.gorp.com/gorp/location/asia/india/np_band.htm Information on Bandhavgarh, the locale for LIVING ...
Follow as he travels to a remote Canadian outpost on Hudson Bay, where he investigates the annual invasion of hungry polar bears. Churchill, in the Canadian province of Manitoba, occupies a spit of land that provides the fastest access onto the ice, and the ...
Wayde Roberts is a Natural Resource Officer at Manitoba Conservation in Canada. He's been working with polar bears for more than 10 years and in 2002 spoke to NATURE Online about his work in Churchill, known to many as the polar bear capital of the ...
