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Deception Island is an island in South Shetland off the Antarctic Peninsula, which has one of the safest harbours in Antarctica. The island is the caldera of an active volcano, which caused serious damage to the local scientific stations in 1967 and 1969. The island previously held a whaling station; it is now a tourist destination and scientific outpost, with researc...
The Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge is an important breeding area for mammals, birds, and other animals. The National Wildlife Refuge is located on land surrounding Lake Lowell, just outside Nampa, Idaho. It serves as a resting and wintering area for birds, including mallards and Canada geese, along the Pacific Flyway and was named a "Globally Important Bird Area" ...
De Hoop Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It lies three hours from Cape Town in the Overberg region, near Cape Agulhas, the southern tip of Africa. Approximately 340 square kilometres in area, it is one of the largest natural areas managed by CapeNature.
Only three hours from Cape Town lies a special nature reserve situat...
Denali National Park and Preserve is located in Interior Alaska and contains Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America. The park and preserve together cover 9,492 mi² (24,585 km²).
Denali is home to a variety of Alaskan birds and mammals, including a healthy population of grizzly bears and black bears. Herds of caribou roam throughout th...
Denali's canine rangers connect the past to the present. Sled dogs and rangers continue to work together to protect the wilderness of the park as they have since the 1920s. The Denali National Park Kennels harnesses the spirit of sled dogs to forge lasting bonds between people and wild places.In a modern world filled with high tech solutions for "everything", it can b...
Dent Island is a subantarctic 26-hectare (64-acre) rock stack, lying 3 km west of Campbell Island and belonging to the Campbell Island group. It was named by the French 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Campbell Island because of its resemblance to a tooth (dentin French).
The island is part of the Campbell Island group Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such ...
The Derawan Islands (Kepulauan Derawan) are in the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesia. They include Derawan, Sangalaki, Kakaban, Maratua, Panjang, and Samama Island and submerged reefs and islets. They are located in the Sulawesi Sea, on the coastal shelf of East Kalimantan.
Located in a biodiversity hotspot, the Derawan Islands feature 872 species of reef fishe...
When you think of bighorn sheep, you probably instantly picture a ram. Those large, curled horns aren’t just status symbols, but are impressive weapons used in ram-to-ram combat. What are they fighting for? What males in the animal kingdom are always battling for--dominance and females. To do this, they face each other, rear up on their hind legs and run at each...
Find this heat-loving, desert-dweller where the creosote bush is. The desert iguana lives pretty much wherever creosote is. After all, the plant makes up most of its diet and also provides a home and protection against predators and extreme temperatures. Desert iguanas don’t mind most heat though. They can be seen meandering about midday during the hottest summe...
The Desert National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located north of Las Vegas, Nevada, in northwestern Clark and southwestern Lincoln counties, with much of its land area lying within the southeastern section of the Nevada Test and Training Range. The Desert NWR, created on May 20, 1936, is the large...
Imagine you’re walking in the Mojave Desert in the spring. You stop for a moment to catch your breath and spot movement in the creosote bushes next to you. Are your eyes deceiving you? Slowly, out of the bushes, comes a tortoise. About the length of an NFL football, the little guy slowly circles you, sniffing in your direction, and finally comes to rest in your ...
The Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge is located in North Dakota and extends from the Canadian border to near the town of Kenmare, North Dakota along Des Lacs Lake. The refuge is considered to be one of the most important bird sanctuaries in the U.S., with tens of thousands of birds using the refuge for migration and breeding. The refuge is also home to elk, moose, bi...
Detwah Lagoon is a lagoon on the coast of Socotra, Yemen. Located on the island's northwest coast near Qalansiyah, the saline lagoon connects to the Gulf of Aden, from which it is separated by a spit. It has been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2007.
The lagoon contains extensive seagrass meadows, and the shore hosts endemic plants includingCroton socotran...
Diego Garcia is a tropical, footprint-shaped coral atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean at 7 degrees, 26 minutes south latitude. It is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory [BIOT] and is positioned at 72°23' east longitude. The atoll is approximately 1,800 nautical miles (3,300 km) east of the African coast and 1,200 nautical miles (...
The Atlantic Forest is a region of tropical and subtropical moist forest, tropical dry forest, tropical savanna, semi deciduous forest and mangrove forests which extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the north to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south, and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina.
The Atlant...