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The Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu [2] is a protected area in Peru covering over 35,000 hectares. It includes the natural environment surrounding the Machu Picchu archaeological site, located in the rugged cloud forest of the Yungas on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes and along both banks of the Urubamba River, which flows northwest in this section.
SAI (Save Animals Initiative) Sanctuary is located in the Kodagu district in the Indian state of Karnataka. SAI Sanctuary is the only private sanctuary in India. [1] It is spread over an area of 1.2 square km. [2] It is managed by SAI Sanctuary Trust. SAI Sanctuary trust won the Wildlife and Tourism Initiative of the Year Award-2014 for Eco ...
[2] [3] The proposal was later abandoned [4] but inspired the formation in August 1983 of a charitable trust, the Otago Natural History Trust. [5] [6] Their initial proposal for a sanctuary at Orokonui lapsed and the group disbanded for a while [2] [7] until 1995, when the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary opened in Wellington.
Wamsley eradicated all feral plants and animals (including foxes, which are predators of platypus) from the sanctuary and erected a surrounding fence to preserve the sanctuary's feral-free state, completed in 1982. [4] Warrawong was opened to the general public in 1985 with the goal of generating enough money to set up more sanctuaries.
A Sanctuary For Neglected Farm Animals. That has been the fate of many of the sanctuary’s rescues at Edgar’s Mission, the group that took in this pair of rams. Sometimes the lost sheep are ...
Udawattakele Forest Reserve often spelled as Udawatta Kele, is a historic forest reserve on a hill-ridge in the city of Kandy.It is 104 hectares (257 acres) large. During the days of the Kandyan kingdom, Udawattakele was known as "Uda Wasala Watta" in Sinhalese meaning "the garden above the royal palace".
The Amani Nature Reserve was established in 1997 in a forested area in the East Usambara Mountains with an area of 83.8 km 2 (32 sq mi), including the Amani Botanical Garden of 3 km 2 (1.2 sq mi) and a further 10.7 km 2 (4.1 sq mi) of forest managed by local tea estates. Traditionally, people living in villages adjacent to the reserve have used ...
The couple bought the chimpanzee for $30 and soon discovered that many other chimpanzees are kept as pets and often mistreated. The sanctuary cares for these abused, orphaned and abandoned animals and offers them a new home, and as capacity becomes stretched, also educates among Sierra Leoneans about protecting chimpanzees in the wild.