Elisabet

Emma
Haboni
Javier
AUSTRALIA (Oceania)
 It’s the world's largest coral reef system.
 It’s located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of
Queensland, Australia.

 The reef comprises of over 3000

individual reef systems and hundreds
of islands stretching for over 2300
kilometres.
  It’s one of the seven wonders of
the natural world.
 UNESCO listed the Great Barrier
Reef as a World Heritage Site in
1981.

 The Great Barrier Reef is

the only living thing on
earth visible from space.
 The Great Barrier Reef
contains an abundance of
marine life.

 More than 400 different kinds

of coral, coral sponges,
molluscs, rays, dolphins,
sharks, over 1500 species of
tropical fish, more than 200
types of birds, around 20 types
of reptiles…
 Vulnerable or endangered species:

The Dugong (Sea Cow) The large Green Sea Turtle

 Over fishing

 Marine pollution

 Climate change  GLOBAL WARMING

 Coral bleaching

 Frecuency and
severity of cyclones
 The reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985.

 Finally, ¿will the Great Barreir Reef desappear?

PERU (AMERICA)
 A series of ancient geoglyphs.
 Discovered by María Reiche in 1946.
 It’s located 400km south of Lima.

 Figures as flowers, animals or

humans. The largest figure strech
more than 200m acrosss.
 Weather protected during centuries
 Mining boom throw the garbage without any treatment.
 To avoid the toll and the weighing
station of the road, the trucks
crossed the Nazca pampa in the
night.

 Dakar: This race passes through the

desert and one day pass over the
Nazca lines
 Sacking of an archeological site.
INDIA (Asia)
 It is one of the most important
monuments of India, in Agra.

 It has been considered one of the

Seven Wonders of the World.
 It was built by the emperor as a posthumous offering to his late wife.
 The architectural beauty

 A true mystical place.

 Pollution

 Poorly done renovations

 The numbers of tourists

 Don’t delay to visit it.
UGANDA,RWANDA and CONGO (Africa)
 The mountain gorillas (Gorilla
Gorilla Berengie) are the
most endangered ape in the
world.
 They were unknown to
science until 1902 when two
were first encountered by a
German explorer and
promptly killed.
 Today nearly half of the
world’s 880 remaining
mountain gorillas live in the
Virunga Mountains of central
Africa, at the intersection of
Uganda, Rwanda, and the
Democratic Republic of the
Congo.
 Gorillas can climb trees, but are usually found on the ground in
communities of up to 30 individuals.
 Troops are led by one dominant, older adult male, often called a
SILVERBACK because of the swath of silver hair that adorns his otherwise
dark fur.
 Since the discovery of the

mountain gorilla subspecies in

1902, its population has endured

years of war, hunting, habitat

destruction and disease—threats

so severe that it was once

thought the species might be

extinct by the end of the

twentieth century.
 Despite years of civil unrest in the region where mountain gorillas live,
conservation efforts have found success. The gorilla population increased
from 620 animals in 1989 to around 880 today.

 Gorillas have been a WWF (World Wildlife) flagship species for 50 years.
 The Gorilla Agreement, which is a part of the Convention of Migratory
Species, came in to full effect in June 2008. It’s the first agreement to legally
oblige governments in the 10 countries where gorillas live to work together
to combat the threats faced by gorillas in the wild.

* The Gorilla Doctors

preparing to dart an
injured gorilla with
antibiotics.
THANK’S!