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Geocaching (/ ˈ dʒ iː oʊ k æ ʃ ɪ ŋ /, JEE-oh-KASH-ing) is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. [2]
A Travel Bug is a dog tag used in Geocaching. Produced by Groundspeak, the bugs can be moved from cache to cache, with unique tracking numbers allowing their movements to be tracked through the company's geocaching website. Some tags are fastened to an object, known as a "hitchhiker", before they are released into a cache.
The National Careers Service was established on the April 5, 2012. [3] It replaced a service called Next Step which was launched on the August 1, 2010 as an integration of the existing web-based, telephone-based and local face-to-face careers services for adults. [ 4 ]
Geoconservation is carried out by a wide range of organisations from local geological societies to government agencies. Typically the conservation of geodiversity at a site or within a landscape takes place alongside that of biodiversity. [citation needed]
World Challenge is a for-profit UK provider of overseas adventure travel programs targeted at schools. The company was founded when a young army captain took a team of soldiers on a training mission to the snow-capped Hindu Kush mountain range in Pakistan in 1985. He realised that the personal development and camaraderie learned there would ...
It was the Institute of Careers Officers from the late 1960s until October 1991, becoming the Institute of Career Guidance from 22 October 1991, and the Institute of Career Guidance from 1 November 2000. [2] In the 1960s, its staff were widely referred to as youth employment officers; there were around 1,500 of these by 1965. [3]
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To conserve game and wildlife for public benefit including: where it is for the protection of the environment, the conservation or promotion of biological diversity through the provision, conservation, restoration or enhancement of the natural habitat; or the maintenance or recovery of a species in its natural habitat on land or in water and in ...