Climate Change, Environmental Threats, India
Gaia Discovery Web Editor
Warming Himalayas Drying Up Highest Village

KOMIK, India - The main water sources in the world's highest village in the Himalayas are drying up due to global warming, making life harder for its inhabitants who rely mainly on subsistence farming.

Warming Himalayas Drying Up Highest Village
Beaches, Travel, India, Seychelles, Scuba Diving, geotourism
Gaia Discovery Web Editor
The Indian Traveller in Seychelles

The Seychelles Tourism Board, local and Indian trade partners meet to explore the tourism potential of Seychelles for Indian travellers. Beaches, weddings, snorkelling are popular in Seychelles.

The Indian Traveller in Seychelles
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Langkawi Live 2012 - the River Project

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Langkawi Live 2012 - the River Project

Langkawi will again host Langkawi Live One Earth Music Festival - an exciting music festival featuring some of Malaysia’s and the region’s most prominent musicians from 2-3 November 2012. Langkawi Live 2012will maximise the picturesque beachfront setting of the Frangipani Langkawi Resort & Spa which will again play host to this year’s event.

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Cairns: Australia's Tropical Paradise

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Cairns - The city is the ideal base to explore the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics rainforests. Both of these most fascinating ecosystems are listed in the World Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

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Tanjung Puting National Park's Environmental Impact

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A slow boat trip through Tanjung Puting provides a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the natural beauty of the Borneo forest and watch the behaviour of the primates that inhabit it. In the third and final part of this series, writer Simon Pridmore sums up his experience in Kalimantan's remote Tanjung Puting National Park.

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Kalimantan Primates: Visiting Kalimantan's Tanjong Puting National Park (Part 1 of 3)

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The proboscis monkey is amazingly cute, though of course beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Several thousand of these 'dutch monkeys' make their home in the jungles of Borneo, living off leaves, seeds and unripened fruit. But, Simon Pridmore reports, their natural habitat is threatened by illegal mining and logging. This article is the first of a three part series exploring Tanjung Puting National Park.

Belize EcoTourism: Taking a Proactive Approach to Education and Awareness

With tourism one of the country’s top sources of revenue, Belize’s livelihood depends on nature. And although it’s never easy to balance tourism with environmental preservation, Belize has realised that ignoring the latter means endangering the former.

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Puerto Princesa Underground River, Karst Formation: Nature's Wonder

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Until the discovery of an underground river in Mexico ’s Yucatan Peninsula in 2007, the 8.2-kilometer long Puerto Princesa Subterranean River was reputed to be the world’s longest underground river. The underground river arises approximately 2 kilometers south-west of Mount Saint Paul at an altitude of 100 meters. “The subterranean river is the park’s main calling card, and it passes through a mystical limestone cave before emptying into the South China Sea ,” UNESCO said.

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A Greener Philippines Through Zero Carbon Resorts

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Global warming, an environmental threat unlike any the world has faced, is thought to be caused by an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases spewed into the atmosphere through human activities. So how do some resorts operate, without further harming mother nature? A review of two Phillipine resorts.

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Showcase Eco-Resort: Frangipani Langkawi Resort & Spa

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Beyond green, this eco-resort in West Malaysia shows how organic methods can be applied to address environmental problems and tourism impacts to produce amazing results. Mallika Naguran meets the man behind this award-winning resort to learn of his unwavering commitment towards Mother Nature.

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Mekong Responsible Travel E-Guide Launched

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A new online guide shows you how to have a great holiday using boutique hotels, guest houses, restaurants, shops and tour operators that all build positive change throughout Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Guangxi and Yunnan provinces of China.

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Eco-friendly Amarela Resort's Boholano Heritage

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Eco-friendly Amarela Resort's Boholano Heritage

Committed to heritage and low impact hospitality services, Amarela Resort is a charming eco-resort perched on the Panglao Island coastline of the Philippines. An old Visayas art form - Boholano - is revived in a number of ways here, and the environment is given tender loving care as well, reviews Gaia Discovery.

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Sivananda Yoga Ashram: Effecting Life Changes, Beyond Health and Well-being

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The Shivandanda Yoga Ashram allows you to escape from the stresses of modern life and learn enough to go back and make a change to ease those stresses. Offering a wide range of courses to choose from, individuals can make a selection according to what they wish to change about their lives, or what the wish to learn.

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Review of Panglao Island Diving with SeaQuest: Balicasag and Coastal Dives

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here is more to Panglao island than Balicasag - a famed dive destination in the Philippines that has earned honorable mention in most dive guides, even clinching top ten rankings in reviews.

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Volunteer Program: Moroccon Girls Skill Up Through 'Education for All'

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“Education for All” builds dedicated boarding house that provides specific care to Moroccon girls between 16-19 years of age to have closer access to government schools.

 

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