Environment

The National Parks Service, an organ of the U.S. Department of the Interior, currently manages 59 National Parks.

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Eastern Black Rhinos and Aders' Duikers are Critically Endangered mammals in Tanzania.

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From the Arctic to the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the prairies to the mountains to the tundras within their shores, Canada's flora is far more than just maple trees.

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Most of Mauritania's more than 500 known resident bird species are well suited to its desert environs.

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Habitat loss and reckless harvesting threaten many of the African nation's most unique plants.

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Bolivia, a land of many rivers and lakes, houses a wide variety of fish, including many catfish species.

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Brazil's primates are at especially great risk, as they continue to be killed, captured, and subjected to habitat losses.

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The numerous dunes spreading over this expanse of coastal desert house a diverse array of unique flora and fauna.

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The IUCN Red List is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Conservation organizations such as WWF, Oceana, Sierra Club, and others are working hard to save the rapidly disappearing species of our planet.

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Nature protectorates are set aside by decrees made by the Egyptian Prime Minister. We look at some of the country's most noteworthy.

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Chimpanzees are extant great apes that are one of the two species of the genus Pan, the other being the bonobo.

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These six major international environmental organizations are striving hard to address such problems as habitat destruction, poaching, pollution, and global warming.

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From the world's highest mountain to Tibetan lakes to the Shillin Stone Forest, these national parks hold some of China's greatest natural and cultural treasures.

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Peru's rainforests and river banks provide ample environs for its many native, often endemic, species of amphibians to live in.

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The Philippine islands, sometimes with only a few miles separating them, see high levels of regionally distinct endemism among their respective reptiles.

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Both native and introduced, Ethiopia's array of flora includes some of the most exotic and varied spices on earth.

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Situated along the Atlantic Coast, the park's dunes and swamps provide nesting habitats for many migratory birds.

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Venezuela is an especially snake-rich country, and these snakes accompany many different turtles, lizards, and other reptiles also found there.

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