Nairobi — Tanzanian President John Magufuli downplayed fears on Tuesday that a hydro-electric dam planned for a fabled nature reserve would affect the environment, despite Unesco expressing “grave concern” over the scheme.
The 2,100MW scheme will straddle the Rufiji River in the Selous Game Reserve, a 50,000km2 protected area which was designated a Unesco world heritage site in 1982.
It’s wedding season at Acadia National Park in Maine, and Tabitha Brown can barely keep up with the demand for her “luxury picnics” — champagne and charcuterie served seaside. The fall rush around
By the time superintendent David Smith decided to close Joshua Tree national park on 7 January 2019, the list of problems was already long. Tire tracks wove through the wilderness mapping a path of
Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss—including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a study published in Nature S