Nepisiguit Trail, New Brunswick, Canada: A turtle-shaped rock near Nepisiguit Falls in the Canadian province of New Brunswick carries with it the legend that once the turtle (named Egomoqaseg, or ‘rock like a moving ship’) is completely out of the water, it will be the end of the world for the Mi’gmaq people. On the trail’s 15 stages, bikers pass through protected natural areas, including Normandy’s Grande Noé Bird Reserve, located along a major migratory flyway.
The 270-mile Paris-to-the-sea path, opened in October 2020, also offers lesser known masterpieces such as the colorful street art of the Canal Saint-Denis in Paris. Seine River Bike Trail, France: La Seine à Vélo is a new cycling trail worthy of painter Claude Monet, whose house and famous water lilies in Giverny are on the route. Best For Adventureīike trail along canal in Normandy, France. The disasters led to the deaths of nearly three dozen people and more than one billion animals. Victoria, Australia: Drive the Great Ocean Road to find green shoots of regeneration popping up across Australia where bushfires in 20 burned some 72,000 square miles of land. The Heart of the Continent Dark Sky Initiative is a cross-border effort underway to create one of the largest dark-sky destinations on the planet.īelize Maya Forest Reserve: The race to preserve one of the largest remaining tropical rainforests in the Americas got a big boost recently when a coalition of conservation partners led by the Nature Conservancy bought 236,000 acres of tropical forest in northwestern Belize to create the Belize Maya Forest Reserve.Īlong with saving some of the most biodiverse forests in the world, the new protected area - which is contiguous with the neighboring Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area - closes a huge gap in a vital wildlife corridor that runs from southeast Mexico through Guatemala and into Belize. It has has little to no light pollution and residents are determined to keep it that way. Northern Minnesota: Turn off the lights and multiple thousands of stars sparkle in the night sky of this remote region bordering the Canadian province of Ontario.
Tent camping under a rising Milky Way in Voyegeur's National Park in Minnesota. Visitors can help safeguard the lake and its varied landscapes - including tundra, steppe, boreal forest and virgin beaches - by volunteering with Great Baikal Trail Association, a nonprofit environmental group creating a hiking route around the lake. Although deemed a UNESCO World Heritage site, it suffers ongoing pollution, the recent weakening of government protections and new threats such as large-scale tourism development.
Covering some 12,200 square miles, the massive lake is a natural wonder.īut it’s also in serious trouble. Lake Baikal, Russia: Baikal is so vast and deep that many locals call it a sea. The presence of the Okavango, Kwando, Chobe and Zambezi Rivers creates an ideal habitat for numerous animal species. The Caprivi Strip in Namibia: A narrow finger of land that juts toward the east in the extreme north of the country, is a green, wildlife-rich territory. Elephants from Caprivi Strip, Bwabwata, Kwando, Mudumu National Park, Namibia Photo: Radek Borovka, Alamy Stock Photo
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