Tag: UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

• Wednesday, June 10th 2015 - 06:16 UTC

  Patagonia Azul in Chubut becomes Biosphere reserve; holds 40% of world's Magellan penguins

  

  The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB) added this week twenty 20 new sites (including two in Latina America) to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, bringing their total number to 651 sites, including 15 trans-boundary sites, in 120 countries.

• Saturday, November 2nd 2013 - 23:39 UTC

  Chile's Torres del Paine park named '8th Wonder of the World” by VritualTourist

  

  VirtualTourist announced that after more than five million worldwide votes, Turismo Chile's entry of Torres del Paine National Park has been named the “8th Wonder of the World”.