Nov 16 2025
Amboseli National Park is one of Kenya’s most recognizable wildlife destinations, famous for large elephant herds moving across open plains beneath the distant summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Located in Kajiado County near the Kenya–Tanzania border, the park protects a relatively compact core of a much larger ecosystem made up of dry lake beds, savanna, wetlands, …
Jun 23 2025
The Sierra Nevada del Cocuy is one of the most dramatic mountain landscapes in Colombia. Rising along the eastern branch of the Colombian Andes, this high-altitude range contains glacier-covered peaks, rocky ridges, turquoise lakes, páramo grasslands, deep valleys, and some of the highest mountains in the country. Much of the range lies within El Cocuy …
May 28 2025
Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park protects one of the most recognizable mountain landscapes in central Mexico. Dominated by the enormous volcanoes Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl, the park also contains high conifer forests, alpine grasslands, deep ravines, mountain streams, volcanic terrain, and habitat for distinctive species such as the volcano rabbit. The protected landscape stretches through portions of …
May 28 2025
Cumbres del Ajusco National Park protects a high mountain landscape on the southern edge of Mexico City, where dense conifer forests rise toward volcanic summits nearly 4,000 meters above sea level. From the highest ridges, the enormous urban basin of Mexico City spreads out below while Iztaccíhuatl, Popocatépetl, Nevado de Toluca, and other mountains appear …
Jan 01 2025
Bale Mountains National Park protects one of Africa’s most extraordinary mountain landscapes: a vast highland wilderness of Afro-alpine moorland, volcanic peaks, glacial lakes, grasslands, bamboo forest, cloud forest, deep river valleys, and some of the rarest animals on Earth. Located in the Oromia Region of southeastern Ethiopia, the park rises from lush Harenna Forest to …
Oct 05 2024
Galápagos National Park protects one of the most remarkable natural environments on Earth. Located roughly 1,000 kilometers west of mainland Ecuador in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the Galápagos Islands are famous for giant tortoises, marine iguanas, penguins, flightless cormorants, Darwin’s finches, sea lions, blue-footed boobies, and dozens of other species that evolved in long isolation …
Oct 05 2024
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects one of the largest, most complex, and most biologically important marine ecosystems on Earth. Stretching for more than 2,300 kilometers along the northeastern coast of Australia, the reef system includes thousands of individual coral reefs, hundreds of islands and coral cays, seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, deep-water habitats, sandy seabeds, …
Oct 04 2024
Fiordland National Park protects one of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in New Zealand. Located in the far southwest of the South Island, the park contains immense glacier-carved fiords, rainforest-covered mountains, alpine lakes, powerful waterfalls, remote valleys, rugged coastlines, and some of the country’s most important wildlife habitat. Covering more than 1.2 million hectares, …
Oct 03 2024
Kruger National Park is one of Africa’s greatest wildlife destinations and one of the most famous protected areas in the world. Stretching across northeastern South Africa along the borders with Mozambique and Zimbabwe, the park protects roughly 2 million hectares of savanna, woodland, river systems, granite hills, mopane veld, grassland, and seasonal wetlands. Kruger is …
Oct 02 2024
Plitvice Lakes National Park protects one of Europe’s most distinctive freshwater landscapes: a chain of turquoise, emerald, and deep-blue lakes connected by waterfalls, cascades, streams, and constantly growing natural barriers of tufa, also called travertine. Dense beech and fir forests surround the water, while wooden boardwalks lead visitors directly across portions of the lake system. …
