European wildlife safaris
There are many spectacular wildife watching opportunities right across Europe. The Pan Parks organisation manage a series of spectacular National Parks across Europe. Ireland has spectacular whale watching, Britain is home to 2/3 of Europes sea birds and Coto Donana, in Spain, is a magnificent refuge for everything from lynx to flamingos.
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Largest Nature Park in Switzerland created.Parc Ela, the largest nature park in Switzerland, has been officially opened. The park covers an area of 600 square kilometres is rich in scenery and cultural assets of national importance. No museum Economics minister Joseph Deiss said it was not a museum but "a space in which people live in respect of nature and the countryside". He added that the nature park should help promote sustainable use of the mountain region, which the government was prepared to actively support. Parc Ela, which
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Big game hunting in Africa is economically useless - IUCNA new IUCN report reveals that Big game hunting is almost unbelievably inefficient as a wealth generator, when taking into account the land used and the financial contribution made to GDP.
In the 11 main big game hunting countries, the surface area occupied by big game hunting parks is 14.9% of national territory, and the contribution of big game hunting to the GDP is 0.06%.
Bear watching in SlovakiaThe High Tatras is the highest mountain range in Central Europe outside of the Alps. There is also a high density of bears in the region. The unique terrain makes it possible to have a good chance of seeing bears at certain times of the year without the need to use hides.
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Butterflies of Britain and Europe: A Photographic GuideGood photos and maps make this book easy to use, you will struggle with caterpillar ID though.
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$40,000 to hunt an elephant and you can import the ivory legally into UK!We are absolutely disgusted to find out that it is still legal to import ivory and rhino horn into the UK, as hunting trophies!
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Biscay whale watch 2008
Biscay ORCA Big Whale Watch 2008 clocks up 9 cetacean species
Biscay whale watch 2008.
In two days we had encountered 9 species of cetacean, including rare beaked whales, leaping Bottlenose Dolphins, large tuna, the second largest whale on earth, and ghostly white Risso's Dolphins. Read more »
Biscay ORCA Big Whale Watch 2008 clocks up 9 cetacean speciesBiscay whale watch 2008.
In two days we had encountered 9 species of cetacean, including rare beaked whales, leaping Bottlenose Dolphins, large tuna, the second largest whale on earth, and ghostly white Risso's Dolphins. Read more »
Mammals of Europe, North Africa and the Middle EastThere is a wider range of mammals alive an well in Europe than you might imagine, with some 400 species listed.
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