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- Iguazu National Park (Brazil/Argentina) - Iguazu Falls, one of the three largest waterfalls in the world, throws up dense clouds of vapor and sends out a thunderous roar through the surrounding jungle. The Iguazu Falls, which lies on the border between Brazil and Argentina, is one of largest waterfalls in the world, with a total of 270 separate cascades stretched across an area three kilometers long. The ?water cycle? that the waterfall creates enables a large number of rare plants and animals to live and grow in the surrounding jungle environment.

- Fraser Island (Australia) - Fraser Island, the world?s largest sand island, is a paradise covered in lush greenery that is home to a wide variety of mammals and rare wild birds. Fraser Island measures 123 kilometers north to south, making it the world?s largest sand island. The island, which was created over an 800,000 year period, has a vast tropical rainforest and is a paradisiacal environment for the wild birds and mammals that inhabit it. The island is dotted with more than 40 sand dune lakes, and has over 50 rivers and streams, and these all help to create the island?s beautiful natural environment.

- Everglades National Park (The United States of America) - The Everglades National Park, with its vast virgin wetlands and mangrove forest, is a veritable treasury of wildlife. The gently flowing waters of the Everglades situated at the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula, is an avian paradise and a home to alligators and crocodiles. Dense mangrove forests thrive where the fresh waters of the wetlands finally meet the seawater of the Gulf of Mexico. These dense forests by the sea display to us the inner workings of nature.

- Yakushima (Japan) - The island of Yakushima is home to a primeval forest of ancient crytomeria trees that are over 1000 years old, and features a variety of vegetation types ranging from subtropical to alpine. Yakushima is situated 70 kilometers to the south of the southern tip of Kagoshima Prefecture. The island has a diverse range of plant life with subtropical plants such as Chinese Banyan trees and Ficus superba var. japonica trees growing near the coast; laurel forests and coniferous forests featuring ancient cryptomeria trees on the mountainsides; and clusters of Pseudosasa owatarii at elevations over 1500 meters. This fertile island is a microcosm of the various natural environments that exist on the islands of the Japanese Archipelago.

- The Danube Delta (Romania) - Europe?s largest wetlands, the Danube Delta, is blanketed with a dense expanse of reeds, a bountiful untouched natural environment that is a paradise for wild birds. The Danube River, made famous by the popular piece of music ?the Blue Danube,? is Europe?s second largest river. The river originates in Germany?s Black Forest region. The Danube Delta stretches out across the estuary of the Danube River which opens onto the Black Sea. As many as 300 species of birds live in this vast swathe of wetlands