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Yellowstone National Park ligt in het noordwesten van Amerika, midden in de Rocky Mountains. Yellowstone is in 1872 tot Nationaal Park uitgeroepen en is daarmee het oudste Nationale Park van de Verenigde Staten. Yellowstone is bekend om z'n veelzijdigheid aan natuurverschijnselen en dierenleven. Het park heeft bijvoorbeeld meer dan tienduizend geysers en warmwaterbronnen, honderden elanden en duizenden wapitiherten en bizons. Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.

Regenwouden, heuvels, bergen, actieve vulkanen en gletsjers vormen het landschap in de omgeving van Tongariro National Park. Het park ligt op het noordereiland van Nieuw-Zeeland. Pal aan de kust van het zuidereiland ligt het Abel Tasman National Park. Hier leven grote groepen pelsrobben. New Zealand has one of the largest volcanic areas in the world. The volcanic plateau on the Northern Island is part of the ring of fire around the Pacific. Tongariro National park is located here. The thermal valleys with its geysers, wells and coloured puddles are always in motion. The earth is literally evaporating here. Tongariro, Waimangu, Rotorua, Taupo, are just a few names where the fluid core of the earth is always present. Right on the coast of the Southern Island is the Abel Tasman National Park located. The park reaches right into the sea, so to speak. Particular to this area are the sea mammals, including the New Zealand fur seal.Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.

Noorwegen kent een aantal Nationale Parken zoals Rondane, Dovrefjell, Jotunheimen en Jostedalsbreen. Samen met de fjorden vormen ze een enorm ecosysteem met veel verschillende biotopen. The National Parks in Norway include Rondane, Dovrefjell, Jotunheimen and Jostedalsbreen. Along with the fjords they add up to an enormous ecosystem with many varied ecotypes. The musk ox is on no account dull. Neither is the ptarmigan, the reindeer or the elk. Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.

Het Nationale Park Waddenzee ligt langs de noordelijke kusten van Nederland, Duitsland en Denemarken. De Waddenzee is de kraamkamer van de Noordzeevissen. Het gebied bestaat uit zandplaten, slikken, kwelders, duinen en dijken. Door het enorme voedselaanbod leven hier enorme aantallen vogels. Bekendste zoogdier is de zeehond. Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.

De Grand Canyon is 445 kilometer lang, 1600 meter diep en op sommige plaatsen 29 kilometer breed. De Grand Canyon werd in 1919 een Nationaal Park. In en rond het gebied liggen natuur¬monumenten, boomreservaten, indianen¬reservaten en recreatie¬gebieden. De Grand Canyon is als het ware een stenen wildernis waar een groot gedeelte van een oeroud verleden is blootgelegd. Aangenomen wordt dat de Colorado rivier de bodem door de miljoenen jaren heen heeft uitgesleten tot canyon. Dit erosieproces gaat vandaag de dag nog steeds door. Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.

Kakadu is an ancient landscape of exceptional beauty and great diversity. It stretches over 20 000 square kilometres, from mangrove-fringed tidal plains in the north to vast floodplains, lowland hills and the sandstone cliffs of the Arnhem Land escarpment. The Nourlangie Area features stunning rock art galleries and impressive views from Gunwarddehwardde lookout of Kakadu's escarpment and Nourlangie Rock. The Nawurlandja Lookout walk offers views of the escarpment, Nourlangie and Anbangbang Billabong.

Blue Mountains National Park ligt aan de Australische oostkust vlakbij Sydney in de provincie New South Wales. Het park heeft adembenemende uitzichten en kent een uitgebreid dierenleven. De bekendste dieren zijn kangoeroes, wallabi's en koala's. Blue Mountains National Park is located on the eastern Australian coast near Sydney in New South Wales. There is a breathtaking scenery and an abundance of wildlife. Marsupials, such as the kangaroo, the wallaby, the wombat and the koala or birds such as the kookaburra, the ibis or the always very noisy cockatoo are to be found here. In 1934 conservationists demonstrated to save the blue gum forest, right behind Sydney, from being felled. The demonstration was a success. The conservationists collected money to buy out the tenant and prevented him from carrying out his dastardly plans. In fact this action was a forerunner of the nature conservation campaigns to follow. The result, a part of the Blue Mountains was saved, which people can still enjoy today. Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.

Yellowstone National Park ligt in het noordwesten van Amerika, midden in de Rocky Mountains. Yellowstone is in 1872 tot Nationaal Park uitgeroepen en is daarmee het oudste Nationale Park van de Verenigde Staten. Yellowstone is bekend om z'n veelzijdigheid aan natuurverschijnselen en dierenleven. Het park heeft bijvoorbeeld meer dan tienduizend geysers en warmwaterbronnen, honderden elanden en duizenden wapitiherten en bizons. Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past. Yellowstone National Park is in the north-west of the United States, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Yellowstone was proclaimed a National Park in 1872, making it the oldest national park in the United States. In 1988, an enormous forest fire destroyed a large section of the park. Step by step, nature is trying to regain her old grandeur. The park has more than ten thousand geysers and hot water springs. The most famous geyser is without doubt the "Old Faithful", which every 70 minutes sprays its watery plume some forty metres in the air. In the area surrounding Old Faithful most of the warm springs and geysers of the park can be found. For a geyser you need water and heat, and of course an exhaust system. In Yellowstone all three factors are there. A hot stream flows just below the earths crust. This so-called magma heats up the rain and meltwater that seeps through, which is subsequently pressurised and forced back to the surface again. The result: hot springs, mud pools, steam and explosive geysers.

Langs de Australische Stuart Highway liggen een aantal Nationale Parken van formaat. Midden in het hart van het continent ligt Ayers rock. De aboriginals noemen dit gebied Uluru. Verder naar het noorden ligt Kakadu National Park, één van de beroemdste tropische wetlands van de wereld. Het park herbergt een groot aantal vogelsoorten. West of the Stuart Highway in the heart of the Australian continent is Ayers Rock National Park located, a large sandstone rock formation. Aborigines call the landmark Uluru . Kata-Tjuta is the Aboriginal name for the Olgas, which are located near Uluru. In 1993, a dual naming policy was adopted that allowed official names that consist of both the traditional Aboriginal name and the English name. On 15 December 1993, Uluru was renamed Ayers Rock / Uluru and became the first officially dual named feature in the Northern Territory. The order of the dual names was officially reversed to Uluru / Ayers Rock on 6 November 2002 following a request from the Regional Tourism Association in Alice Springs. Many tourists think that seeing it isn't enough and attempt to climb this rock, despite protests from the Aborigines for whom Uluru is a sacred place. This summer the Australian national park service released a plan to close the climb for "visitor safety, cultural and environmental" reasons. Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.