In Parksville,B.C. on the island, there is an incredible waterfall on the Englishman River. The falls flow down in huge plume through a rock canyon to where in the summer there is a swimming hole. This is the habitat the likes of which have made the Sierra Club calendars and photography famous. Check out the Biosphere Reserves as well. Check out the trails. trails/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=HGC105-019 Heres the reason that UNESCO is studying these mountains: Over 160 mountainous sites are in the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves. Their high environmental sensitivity provides key conditions to study global change impact, and to facilitate this study, a set of UNESCO mountain biosphere reserves has joined international efforts in a program termed GLOCHAMORE (Global Change and Mountain Regions). Scientists in order to address the impact of environmental and climate change on ecosystems and people in mountain regions. Like polar regions, mountain biosphere reserves will show the greatest climate changes earliest, and so they are being used as an early warning system of changes that are occurring worldwide unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001432/143225e.pdf#page=16 unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/mab-and-the-international-year-of-water-cooperation/ unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/europe-north-america/canada/mount-arrowsmith/ These are precious natural treasures to be preserved and cherished for sure.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 01:09:12 +0000
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