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August 27, 2019
Lovers of Tuscany's 'paradise' beach have factory to thank
August 27, 2019
Indonesia to close giant lizard island leaving guides, villagers in the lurch
GIROLATA, FRANCE - "It's nature's magical design," says a tourist guide, waxing poetic as he comments on the impressive red cliffs plunging into a turquoise sea at the Scandola nature reserve on France's Corsica island."Amazing!" exclaims Irena Snydrova, a Czech tourist visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site with her family, along with groups from Italy, Spain and France.Their boat sidles up to the Steps of Paradise, rocks shaped into a stairway some 15 meters long, then glides on to Bad Luck Pass, a former pirates' redoubt.The ages have sculpted the volcanic cliffs into myriad shapes that beguile the visitor, who might imagine a kissing couple here, a horse's head there, Napoleon's two-cornered hat further on...The park, created in 1975, is an...
August 25, 2019
'Red lights' as over-tourism threatens Corsican nature reserve
ABIDJAN - The seaside resort offers visitors a cool drink or tasty meal, a dip in a pool, a karaoke session or an overnight stay, all with a view.Nothing much new there, you may say -- creature comforts like this are pretty much standard in tropical hotels.The big difference, though, is that this mini resort is also a moveable island that floats on plastic bottles.Riding on the laguna in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's economic hub, the unusual complex floats on a platform made from 700,000 discarded bottles and other buoyant debris.Its inventor, Frenchman Eric Becker, says his creation can help greener, more mobile tourism -- something less harmful to seas and coastlines than traditional fixed, concrete resorts.His "Ile Flottante" -- French for "Floating Island" --...
August 25, 2019
Ivory Coast's 'Floating Island' points to greener tourism
August 20, 2019
Ghana cashes in on slave heritage tourism
August 16, 2019
Sinking city: Indonesia's capital on brink of disaster
LOISABA, KENYA - For most of his life as a Samburu warrior, Lesaiton Lengoloni thought nothing of hunting giraffes, the graceful giants so common a feature of the Kenyan plains where he roamed."There was no particular pride in killing a giraffe, not like a lion... (But) a single giraffe could feed the village for more than a week," the community elder told AFP, leaning on a walking stick and gazing out to the broad plateau of Laikipia.But fewer amble across his path these days: in Kenya, as across Africa, populations of the world's tallest mammals are quietly, yet sharply, in decline.Giraffe numbers across the continent fell 40 percent between 1985 and 2015, to just under 100,000 animals, according to the best figures available to the International Union for Conservation of...
August 16, 2019
Gentle giraffes threatened with 'silent extinction'
August 16, 2019
Afghan palace emerges from ruins as centenary nears
RIO DE JANEIRO - Luiz Pedreira walks with other hikers beneath the Atlantic Forest's thick canopy in Brazil, where an 8,000-kilometer trail stretching the full length of the country is being opened up.He says he hopes that the creation of the trail, one of the world's longest, will raise awareness about the fragility of the forest -- long devastated by loggers and farmers, and now facing a renewed threat under President Jair Bolsonaro."If you don't know something, you don't value it," says Pedreira.Inspired by long-distance tracks such as Canada's 24,000-kilometer Great Trail, the project will connect paths from the southern town of Chui on Brazil's border with Uruguay, to Oiapoque on its northern frontier with French Guiana.The result will be a continuous...
August 16, 2019
Trans-Brazil trail raises hopes for future of Atlantic Forest
August 11, 2019
In New Zealand, young Māori women lead the battle for indigenous rights
