The Network includes sites as diverse as Lagkawi Island, featuring the oldest rock formations in Malaysia, the petrified forest on Lesvos Island (Greece) and the volcanic craters of Vulkaneifel in Germany.
Hirauchi Kaichu onsen, the tidal pool in which the man and I were poaching, is on Yakushima, an island whose cedar forest earned a spot on Unesco's World Heritage List (and was the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki's anime classic "Princess Mononoke").
On the estate of the aristocratic French de Heaulme family in the south of the island she discovered an untouched forest fragment amid the sisal plantations.
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National Geographic Expeditions runs tours throughout the year for the same price, covering natural wonders like Easter Island and the tropical Daintree rain forest in Australia.
Yet off the highway, one quickly passes through cinderblock villages through open fields and into El Yunque, the tropical forest that dominates the eastern part of the island.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says brown tree snakes have wiped out most of Guam's native populations of forest birds since being accidentally introduced to the island after World War II, probably after they stowed away on a ship or plane from their native range in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Unusually dry, warm and windy weather helped trigger a rash of wildfires across the region Monday, causing traffic and transit problems, consuming hundreds of acres of forest in South Jersey and forcing evacuations on Long Island.
While the latter now seems only to feed higher up in the forest canopy, the former two vanished from upper North Island in the late 19th century.
The boss of the Virgin business empire owns two of the smaller British Virgin Islands (BVI), and planned to have lemurs living in the forest on one of them, Moskito (also Mosquito) Island.
For one thing, stands of tapioca and sugar cane have been planted around the island lest the "castaways" prove less than successful at foraging from the forest.
They say the disappearance of two birds - the bellbird and stitchbird - from the upper North Island of the country has lead to a slow decline in common plants, including the forest shrub New Zealand gloxinia.
Following a tradition of maritime nomadism in the region, the Moken shifted from island to island for centuries, subsisting on what they gathered underwater, along the foreshore and from the forest.
Carcasses of the baby-faced elephants were found near each other over the past three weeks at the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve, said Laurentius Ambu, director of the wildlife department in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo island.
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