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The official town center is located 6 km inland from the beach. Within "Nosara town" is the market, pharmacy, post office, churches, school, police station, David S. Kitson public library and Red Cross clinic (Nosara lacks a hospital facility). There is a Banco Popular branch located in a small commercial area near Playa Guiones.
The Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, previously known as the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, is a 300 hectares (3.0 km 2) botanical reserve in western Roodepoort near Johannesburg. It was formally established in 1982 as the Transvaal National Botanic Gardens, at which time it was the 14th of South Africa's National Botanical ...
Near Bain's Vlei, the garden was established in 1965, around 10 km north of downtown between picturesque dolerite rocks. 140 bird species, 50 mammal species, and 50 reptile species live in the park. A wild olive tree ( Olea europaea subsp. africana ) there is probably more than 200 years old.
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, 367 acres (1.5 km 2) – natural area. [4] Native Plant Border – native perennials, shrubs, and small trees. UNC Herbarium (earliest collections 1835) – 750,000 natural history specimens documenting the identity and distribution of plants in North Carolina and the Southeast. Several Display Gardens
In addition, the Herbarium's active collection program generates thousands of additional specimens a year. Current field projects include the flora of the San Bernardino Mountains and western Riverside County, as well as an investigation of the Curú Biological Reserve on the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica.
Kirstenbosch is a botanical garden nestled at the eastern foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town. The garden is one of 10 National Botanical Gardens covering five of South Africa's six different biomes and administered by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Prior to 1 September 2004, the institute was known as the National ...
The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a 1,190 acres (483 ha) [1] nature preserve and biological field station formally established as a reserve in 1973. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The biological preserve is owned by Stanford University , and is part of the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences.
English: View of the Golden Shore Marine Biological Reserve, Long Beach, CA, from the south end of the Los Angeles River bike path. Structures of the Port of Long Beach are visible in the background. Structures of the Port of Long Beach are visible in the background.