The earth looked so beautiful and so fragile.

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What will that mean for the salmon, the whales and the rest of Sakhalin's beautiful but fragile flora and fauna?

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On underground pathways in Alexandra and Blanche caves, I passed by galleries of fragile and beautiful limestone formations, some thousands of years old.

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