Primary Info Zion (in Hebrew means place of sanctuary or refuge) Canyon, also known as Straight Canyon or Little Zion is a deep, narrow gauge (deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides) in southwestern Utah in the United States. A part of the Colorado Plateau, the Canyon is located in the eastern side of the Zion National Park. The Virgin River marks the end of the canyon. The canyon is 1,47,000 acres in area. The Zion Canyon was discovered in 1848 and has a rich river deposit. Country Info The United States of America is the fourth largest (9.83 million square kilometres) and one of the richest country in the world. The country is located in  North America with the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans flanking it on the west and east respectively. To its north lies Canada and south Mexico. Its state of Alaska is in the north-west of the continent.  [...] 

Country Info A part of the United Kingdom, Scotland (area: 78,772 square kilometers) is located in the north of the Great Britain. It has England in the south and North Sea in the east and the Atlantic Ocean in the north and west. Scotland has over 790 islands besides the mainland. Edinburg is the national capital. Primary Info The Golden Eagle (Aquila Chrysaetos) is a big bird of prey found mainly in Scotland, a country in the Great Britain featuring open treeless areas down to the sea level (it is also found in areas of Eurasia, North America and Africa). It belongs to the Accipitirdae family. Golden Eagle is the national bird of Mexico. The Scots too recognise the Golden eagles as the symbol of the inspiring beauty of their country. Efforts are on to declare the bird as the national bird of the country. Habitat and breeding As said earlier,  [...] 

Country Info Liwonde National Park is located in Malawi. (area: 1,18,000 square kilometers) located in south-east-central part of Africa. It is flanked by Zambia in the north-west, Tanzania in the north-east and Mozambique in the east, south and west. The country was formerly known as Nyasaland. The national capital is Lilongwe. Malawi is one of the world’s least developed and most densely populated countries. Primary Info Liwonde National Park is located on the eastern side of River Shire in the Malawi in Africa. The national park is located 140 kilometres from the town of Limbe and 205 kilometres from Lilongwe. The park with an area of 580 square kilometres and altitude ranging between 472-961 kilometres has a rich variety of flora and fauna. The area also features open savannah, lagoons, marshes, floodplain, mopane woodland and hills.  [...] 

Primary Info Heron Island is a small pristine coal cay located in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland in Australia. The island is 539 kilometres north to the capital of Queensland, Brisbane. The island was discovered in 1843 by a ship called HMS Fly while it was exploring the eastern place of the Great Barrier Reef. The place came to be inhabited only in the early 20th century when a turtle cannery was set up there. The initial efforts to build up turtle cannery or fisheries in the Heron Island did not pay off until in the 1930s when Captain Christian Poulsen, realising the tourism potential of the island, took it on lease. In 1943 the Heron Island was declared a National Park. Today Heron Island is one of the top tourist attractions for it is an area that features wildlifes of all kinds and in every season. A small wooden  [...] 

Country Info New Zealand is a small island country (area: 2,68,680 square kilometres) located in the southern Pacific Ocean and to the south-eastern direction of the continent of Australia. The country comprises two main landmasses, the North Island and the South Island separated by the Cook Strait, besides several other smaller islands like the Chatham Islands, Stewart Island, Waiheke Island. Fiji and Tonga are the other close neighbours of New Zealand, also known as Kiwi after one of the rare flightless birds found on its soil. The country’s coastline is 15,134 kilometres long. National capital is Wellington. Flora Owing to the factor of isolation and a location that did not invite much attention and consequent disturbance by mankind in the past, New Zealand has in its possession a rich biodiversity including extraordinary flora and fauna.  [...] 

Country Info Costa Rica (area: 51,100 square kilometres) is a small country in Central America which is bordered by Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south and by the Pacific Ocean to the west and Caribbean Sea to the east. Costa Rica has always fared better in terms of environmental safeguard activities. In 2008, the country was ranked fifth in the world and first in the Americas on Environmental Performance Index. Also the News Economics Foundation has granted Costa Rica the topmost position in the Happy Planet Index besides terming it as the ‘greenest country’ in the world. Capital of Costa Rica is San José. Palo Verde National Park Palo Verde National Park is one of the many national parks in Costa Rica. Spread over an area of 184 square kilometres in Guanacaste Province in north-western part of Costa Rica, the national park  [...] 

Skadar Lake (also known as Lake Scutari and Lake Shkodër is located on the border between the two Balkan countries of Montenegro and Albania in eastern Europe. Lake Skadar is the largest lake in the Balkan Peninsula. It has been named after the city of Shkodra in northern Albania. Geographical features of Skadar Lake The lake has an area of 400 square kilometres, two-third of which falls in Montenegro. It is located in Zeta –Skadar plains. The length of the lake is 48 kilometres while the breadth is 14 kilometres. The coastline is 170 kilometres long. The maximum depth of the lake is 44 metres while its surface elevation is 6 metres above the sea level. In fact, the lake is relatively shallow with the deepest part of  its bed sinking below the sea level, leaving it in a state of crypto-depression. The drainage basin of the lake is near  [...] 

About Serengeti The Serengeti (from Masaai ‘Siringitu’ meaning ‘endless plains’) ecosystem extends from north-western Tanzania to south-western Kenya spanning over an area of 30,000 square kilometres. The Serengeti region encompasses besides Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, Loliondo, Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Two world heritage sites and biosphere reserves have been set up within the Serengeti ecosystem. The ecosystem, which is one of the oldest in the entire earth, has often served as a favourite subject to creative personalities like writers, filmmakers and photographers besides attracting over 90,000 tourists every year. The story goes that Stewart Edwin White, an American hunter was the first white man to hit upon the Serengeti  [...] 

Country Info Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia or Ethiopia (area: 11,26,829 square kilometres) is one of the most ancient countries in the world. It is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa and is flanked by Somalia in the east, Sudan in the west, Djibouti and Eritrea in the north and Kenya in the south. The capital is Addis Ababa. Geographically, Ethiopia is a land of great contrasts. The terrain ranges from the the rugged Simien Mountains to the Danakil Depression located at 120 metres below the sea level forming one of the lowest dry land points on earth. The elevated land complex in Ethiopia is divided by the Great Rift Valley and is surrounded by lowlands, steppes and semi-deserts. The diversity in terrain has led to variation in climate, soil, natural vegetation and human settlement patterns. Southern Ethiopia The  [...] 

Primary info The northern part of the Atlantic Ocean coast of Namibia, located in south-western Africa (area 8,25,418 square kilometres) and southern Angola  (area 1,24,6700 square kilometres) is called the Skeleton Coast. To the east of the Skeleton Coast lies  Kaokoveld and Damaraland. The former is known to be one of the last great wilderness in the southern part of the African continent and is inhabited by the Himba people while the latter is home to the Damara people. The Namib Desert lies to the south-east of the coast.To its south lies the Walvis bay. How did the Skeleton Coast get its name? The indigenous Bushmen of Namibia termed the coast as ‘The Land God Made in Anger’ while the Portuguese crew and sailors called it as ‘The Gates to Hell’. The coast has been mainly named after the carcasses and remains of whales that littered  [...]