Some of our islands are coral atolls, others are volcanic, covered with hills, ancient forests and mangroves, all with beautiful beaches bordering the crystal-clear sea, which is alive with incredible, rare marine life.
Continue along the British Columbia Highway to the Juan de Fuca Trailhead and take the easy 1-mile walk through dense old-growth forests to Mystic Beach.
Venezuelan air force troops have been searching for the bodies of 28 goldminers who are reported to have been killed by a criminal gang in a remote jungle area in the east of the country. Leonardo Rocha reports.
You still get wild things like bears and wolves and abundance of salmon and a bunch of different sea life. You still have old growth forests. And so we want to keep it like that.
There was some heathenish, coffin-colored old lumber aboard, which, upon a long previous voyage, had been cut from the aboriginal groves of the Lackaday islands, and from these dark planks the coffin was recommended to be made.
Between 1990 and 2015, nearly 3 million square km of native forest was cut down, and only 68% of the world's forest area remains from pre-industrial times.