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The ABQ Biopark Botanic Garden is a 36-acre (15 ha) botanical garden located at 2601 Central Avenue NW in Albuquerque, New Mexico, beside the Rio Grande. The garden showcases plants of the Southwest and other arid climates, and includes a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2 ) conservatory .
ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden - A 36-acre (15 ha) botanic garden that includes a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) glass conservatory housing plants from desert and Mediterranean climate zones. [ 3 ] ABQ BioPark Zoo - A 64-acre (26 ha) zoo , with 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of paths and more than 250 species of exotic and native animals.
The Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve is in the Southern Californian Pacific Marine Ecoregion and recognized as an important site for preserving the biodiversity of marine and bird life and the often-unique island vegetation. In the 19th century, commercial hunters decimated the population of marine mammals.
ABQ BioPark Zoo, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a facility of the Albuquerque Biological Park. Founded in 1927, the 64-acre (26 ha) zoo was originally known as the Rio Grande Zoo . Sections of the zoo include an Africa exhibit area, an Australia exhibit area, the "Cat Walk" and a herpetology area.
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range in the western United States.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.
“The amount of biodiversity we encountered was otherworldly, especially compared to my backyard.” Deeya grew up in Johnsonville, South Carolina, a “two-traffic-light small rural town where ...
The terrestrial ecoregions of Mexico span two biogeographic realms - the Nearctic and Neotropic - which together constitute the entire biogeography of the Americas.. Veracruz is the most biodiverse state with 10 ecoregions across 5 biomes and 2 realms.
The word desert has been "formerly applied more widely to any wild, uninhabited region, including forest-land", and it is this archaic meaning that appears in the phrase "desert island". [3] The term "desert island" is also commonly used figuratively to refer to objects or behavior in conditions of social isolation and limited material means ...