Landscape Management & Protection: World Heritage Sites by Stefanie Darke https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4 Made with a curious mind en-us 2018-04-12 22:40:44 UTC 2023-03-30 11:33:44 UTC hello@padlet.com Instructions sdarke https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251379130 Name:
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Ways it is being managed & protected (2-3):
(Include your name)]]> 2018-04-12 22:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251379130 Wadi Al-Hitan – Emmeline https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383424 Name: Wadi Al-Hitan (whale valley)
Location: Egypt – 150km South-West of Cairo
Landscape/landforms: Wadi Al-Hitan is a desert that has cliffs and buttes made out of sandstone. Other than that the landscape itself is pretty barren.
Significance: Wadi Al-Hitan is a site where hundreds of fossils that belonged to the earliest forms of whales – Archaeoceti. The fossils there are high in numbers and in good quality so it is a good place for palaeontologists to study the Archaeoceti. It also helps palaeontologists study the evolution of whales. 
Ways it is being managed & protected (2-3): 
Wadi Al-Hitan is under the 'unequivocal legal protection' of Egyptians law under Nature Protectorates reserves. No vehicles are allowed in the site as it is a part of the World Heritage Zone. Since it is also a place for tourism there are facilities provided there to let people appreciate the landscape whilst protecting the landscape.

]]> 2018-04-12 23:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383424 Victoria Falls - Elka https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383731 Location: Zambia and Zimbabwe - the waterfalls river divided the two countries apart.
Landscapes/form: it is in a rain forest landscape and its land form is a cliff face which the later runs off down below to the river.
Significance: the mist can been seem over 20 km away. the Zambezi river is 2 km wide.
Protection:

]]> 2018-04-12 23:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383731 Fraser Island~Hannah https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383804 Name: Fraser Island
Location: Australia
Landscape/Landform: Coastal. 
Significance: It is the largest sand island in the world.
Ways it is being managed & protected: Most of Fraser Island is a national park.They banned fires at their camping grounds.

]]> 2018-04-12 23:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383804 Dinosaur Provincial Park Canada https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383823 Name: Gabrielle
Location: Dinosaur Provincial Park Canada
Significance: Manny of the worlds most important fossils specimens have been discovered in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada. more that 44 species, 34 genera and 10 families of dinosaurs, dating back 75-77 million years ago. ]]> 2018-04-12 23:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383823 https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383829 2018-04-12 23:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251383829 Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries: Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains- Jill https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384018 Name: Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
Location: China- Qionglai and Jiajin Mountain.
Landscape/landforms: The Giant Panda Sanctuary is a mountain landscape but it is also a paleo-tropic forest.
Significance: The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuary provides a safe home for the pandas to breed so that they can increase the panda population. But the Sanctuary isn't just for pandas. Red pandas, snow leopards, clouded leopards and 109 other species of mammals also live in that forest along with 365 different bird species.
 Ways it is being managed & protected (2-3): The entire land is owned by the People's Republic of China, meaning that it is protected under a different arrange of laws at a national and provincial level. These include the Forest Law of the People's Republic of China, etc. The management plan is to 'ensure that the biodiversity, ecosystem and habitat of the giant panda will be protected'.

]]> 2018-04-12 23:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384018 - Rubix-Los https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384096 Name: Los Glaciares National Park
Location: Argentina
Landscapes/Landforms: It has Towering mountains and many glacial lakes, including Lake argentino.
Significance:

]]> 2018-04-12 23:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384096 The Great Barrier Reef https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384144 name: Cooper Cox
location: The Coral Sea
significance: The 
Great Barrier significance is it's variety and beauty ]]> 2018-04-12 23:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384144 -Rohan- https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384226 The Great Barrier Reef

]]> 2018-04-12 23:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384226 Lake Turkana- kiara 🇰🇪 https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384324 Name-lake turkana
location- Kenya
landscape/landform- the landscape is very flat.
significance- the turkana people refer to the lake as Anam ka'alakol which means the sea of many fish.
ways it is being managed and protected- the siboloi national park was officially made a national park in 1973

]]> 2018-04-12 23:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384324 Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) -Essie lees https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384376 Name: Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)
Location: Western Desert of Egypt
Landscapes/landform:  Desert landscape its pretty bare
Significance: contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales
Ways its being managed and protected: An effective management system is in place for the property. Maintenance of an effective and well-resourced management plan, supported by adequate staff, finance and resources is an essential long term requirement. Amongst the key management issues are the protection
Essie Lees]]> 2018-04-12 23:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384376 Cocos Island National Park- Alana https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384684 Name:  Cocos Island National Park
Location: 550km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. 
Landscape/landforms: 
Coastal landscape including forest mountains, rivers, waterfalls, estuaries, cliffs, sandy and rocky beaches and bays. 
Significance: It is home to about 70 species of vascular plants and many endemic animals. There are some 300 recorded fish species.   
Ways it is being managed and protected: 


]]> 2018-04-12 23:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384684 Great Barrier Reef ~ Sofia https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384882 Name : Great Barrier Reef

]]> 2018-04-12 23:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384882 Uluru https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384991
Significance: Uluru is a monolith witch is sacred to the Anangu people. It is also the heart of Australia
Name: Uluru
Location: Australia, NT
Landscape/landform: Inselberg 
Ways it is being managed & protected: Uluru is closing in 2019


]]> 2018-04-12 23:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251384991 Sian Ka'an https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251385008 - Cormac Campey
Location: Mexico on the east coast of Yucatàn peninsula.
Landscape: Sian Ka'an is a coastal landscape.
Flora and Fauna:]]> 2018-04-12 23:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251385008 The Great Barrier Reef https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251385042 The Great Barrier Reef is in the Coral Sea, on Australia's Northeastern coast. It stretches more than 2,300km along the state of Queensland's coastline, 

it is a costal landscape and it is the most buestiful

the gbf is dyeing of because of over fishing which is taking over the eco systems and coral bleaching

the temperature  of the water is bleaching  
josh B



]]> 2018-04-12 23:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251385042 https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251385048 2018-04-12 23:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251385048 https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251385447 2018-04-12 23:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251385447 Sofia~Great Barrier Reef https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251386188 Name : Great Barrier Reef
Location: Australia , Queensland
Landscape/landforms: Coastal
Significance:
Ways it is being managed & protected (2-3):
(Include your name]]> 2018-04-12 23:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251386188 Great barrier reef - Cooper O'connor https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251387092 2018-04-12 23:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251387092 G https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251387093 2018-04-12 23:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251387093 Greater Blue Mountains Area https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251387349 Name: Lachlan Mahon
Location: 
Blue Mountains, New South Wales
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Significance: ]]> 2018-04-12 23:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251387349 https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251387505 2018-04-12 23:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sdarke/x1yh62gq0o4/wish/251387505