MAGNIFICENT PLACES |
1. Maldives
Magnificent places- Maldives |
Maldives is a little island in the Indian ocean known for its beaches, blue lagoons, extensive reefs and a popular holiday destination. It is the world's lowest ground level elevation country with an average ground level is 1.5 meters that's less than five feet, the country might be washed away with the increase in sea levels.
2. Glacier National Park
Glacier National park located on the US- CANADIAN border was once littered with hundreds of glaciers, about a hundred years ago there are 150 of them but by 2005 only 27 are still existing and they are expected to disappear within few decades.
Magnificent places- Glacier national park |
3. Phang nga bay Thailand
Magnificent places- Phang ng bay thailand |
phang nga bay in Thailand became popular with the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974. Since it is visited by massive tourists its fear that it will collapse due to its extremely shaky ground
4. Magdalen Islands
Magnificent places- Magdalen Island |
Located in Gulf of Lawrence the Magdalen islands are famous as the holiday destination known for white sand beaches and spectacular sandstone cliffs but the coast has been constantly vanishing exposed to harsh weather and strong winds cliffs currently row at a speed of upto 1 meter or 40 inches per year
5. Dead Sea
Magnificent places- Dead Sea |
Dead sea is Earth's lowest elevation spot on land,one of the world's first health resorts, the world's deepest hyper saline lake and one of the salty's bodies of water, but if you want a bath in it you must go sooner, since 1930 it is shrunken by half and its currently recessing at a rate of one meter or three feet every year .
6. Kilimanjaro
Magnificent places- kilimanjaro |
The highest mountain in Africa kilimanjaro is about to vanish soon not the entire mountain but its iconic feature the picturesque snow capped. Scientific studies have shown that about 85% of the snow has already disappeared and it's estimated that the rest will disappear in few decades.
7. Venice
Magnificent place - venice in Italy |
Venice the picturesque city famous for its romantic atmosphere some experts say that venice is gonna sink within 50 years due to rising ocean levels
8. Taj Mahal
Magnificent place- Taj Mahal |
Taj Mahal one of the most iconic structures in the world attracting almost three million visitors per year also facing serious threats the site has been permanently damaged by many factors including air pollution, acid rain, and disintegration of the construction materials.
9. Madagascar
Magnificent places - Madagascar |
Since the arrival of humans Madagascar has lost more than ninety percent of it's original forest due to logging poaching and pollution, if proper actions are not taken the forest and its inhabitants are expected to vanish in three decades
10. Ranthambore National park
Magnificent places- Ranthambore national park |
The Ranthambore National park is one of the largest in Northen India. The park itself struggles with some environmentalist issues but it's the tiger the park's famous inhabitant who may vanish soon due to poaching, biologists say if immediate action is not taken they may die within the next 15 years.
11. Congo basin
Magnificent places - Congo Basin |
Congo Basin is home to some of the world's largest tropical rainforests that produce upto 40% of world's oxygen, however almost 10million acres every year are lost due to mining agriculture, illegal logging and war's. It's estimated that upto two-third's of the rain forests will be gone by 2040.
12. Yangtze river
Magnificent places- Yangtze river |
The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the World the river basin is main source for hundreds of millions people and countless animal and plant species but the chinese government has used it for megalomaniac dam projects cutting hundreds of lakes of river.
13. Ever glades
Ever galdes is a natural region with tropical wetlands that provide natural habitats for numerous fauna and flora species including the extremely rare florida panther, human expansion pollution and farming have already taken over and destroyed more than half of this unique and fragile ecosystem fortunately efforts have been made to save everglades.
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