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...expect a magnificent setting. Nestled at the edge of almost 2.2 million acres of tropical rain forest protected by a World Heritage listing, Daintree is bursting with a dizzying array of flora and fauna, including nearly half of Australia's bird species and what often sound like most of its frogs. Butterflies float among the palms like large leaves, their wings a flash of metallic blue in the shafts of sunlight...
ROME Bulgari's Flora wrap-arounds ($649) with Swarovski flowers have gradient lenses for Mediterranean rays...
...Outeniqua yellow wood trees. It's also the perfect setting for those who like their outdoor experiences spiked with adrenaline: harnessed and helmeted nature lovers can whiz through the Tsitsikamma's treetops by strapping themselves onto a web of steel cables threaded through the forest canopy. Biologists studying the flora and fauna in the Costa Rican cloud- and rain-forest canopies invented the system in the 1980s. It's an adventure that is eco-friendly?not one nail or bolt is drilled into a tree, as the whole system is held together with tension and leverage forces. The highest point...
...your sense of wonder It's also the perfect setting for those who like their outdoor experiences spiked with adrenaline: harnessed and helmeted nature lovers can whiz through the Tsitsikamma's treetops by strapping themselves onto a web of steel cables threaded through the forest canopy. Biologists studying the flora and fauna in the Costa Rican cloud- and rain-forest canopies invented the system in the 1980s. It's an adventure that is eco-friendly - not one nail or bolt is drilled into a tree, as the whole system is held together with tension and leverage forces. The highest point...
Across North America, warming-related changes are mowing down other flora too. Manzanita bushes in the West are dying back; some prickly pear cacti have lost their signature green and are instead a sickly pink; pine beetles in western Canada and the U.S. are chewing their way through tens of millions of acres of forest, thanks to warmer winters. The beetles may even breach the once insurmountable Rocky Mountain divide, opening up a path into the rich timbering lands of the American Southeast...