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In the predominantly arid or semi-arid southwestern United States, a bosque is an oasis -like ribbon of green forest, often canopied, that only exists near rivers, streams, or other water courses. The most notable bosque is the 300-mile (500 km)-long forest ecosystem along the valley of the middle Rio Grande in New Mexico that extends from ...
Resene ColorShop is a chain of retail stores selling paint and other home improvement products. Its first store opened in Wellington CBD in 1975 and it now has 60 stores around the country including 20 in Auckland. [5] The store is deliberately spelt with the American English spelling of color to be unique. [3]
The Nature Protection Service (Spanish: Servicio de Protección de la Naturaleza, SEPRONA) is a unit of the Spanish Civil Guard responsible for nature conservation and management of the hunting and fishing industry. It serves to carry out and oversee State provisions to preserve nature, the environment, water resources, and preserving wealth in ...
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for developing the government policy on fight against climate change, prevention of pollution, protecting the natural heritage, biodiversity, forests, sea, water and energy for a more ecological and ...
Páramo. Páramo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaɾamo]) may refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems located in the Andes Mountain Range, South America. Some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as "all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline". [1] A narrower term classifies the páramo according to its ...
The word chaparral is a loanword from Spanish chaparro, meaning place of the scrub oak, which itself comes from a Basque word, txapar, that has the same meaning. Conservation International and other conservation organizations consider chaparral to be a biodiversity hotspot [ 5 ] – a biological community with a large number of different ...
Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub is a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. [1] The biome is generally characterized by dry summers and rainy winters, although in some areas rainfall may be uniform. Summers are typically hot in low-lying inland locations but can be cool near colder seas. Winters are typically mild to cool ...
The UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award was created by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS) in 1989 to encourage and recognize the countries, governments, organizations, and individuals who have made great contributions to the development of housing. [1] It is the most prestigious human settlements award in the world by the ...