EnviroKids October 2018 Issue

New7Wonders of Nature New7Wonders of Nature is an initiati ve that started in 2007 to create a list of seven natural wonders chosen by people through a global poll.

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Jeju Island Location: South Korea

Komodo Island Location: Indonesia

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Fast Facts: Jeju Island is the largest island in South Korea. It is home to almost 950 species of insects, 198 types of birds, 17 mammal species, and 8 reptile species.

Fast Facts: Komodo Island is estimated to have formed around 1 million years ago, and is one of the 17,508 islands that comprise In- donesia. The island is famous for the largest lizard on Earth (the Komodo Dragon).

Amazon rainforest and ri ver Location: South America Fast Facts: The Amazon comprises over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and has the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest in the world. Here there are around 390 billion individual trees that form part of 16,000 species.

Table Mountain Location: South Africa

Fast Facts: At over 260 million years old, Table Mountain is home to a rich bounty of fauna and flora including the Table Mountain Ghost Frog, an animal that cannot be found any- where else in the world. There are about 2,200 species of plants and 1,470 floral species found here. The flat top peak of the mountain reaches 1,086m above sea level and in 1998, Nelson Mandela proclaimed Table Mountain, “a gift to the Earth”. Table Mountain is also the only terrestrial structure in the world to have a con- stellation named after it.

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Ha Long Bay Location: Vietnam

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Fast Facts: Ha Long Bay has an area of about 1,553 km. The bay has rich bio- diversity and is home to around 14 en- demic floral species and 60 endemic fauna species. The area is also home to artefacts used by prehistoric human beings who were in this area tens of thousands years ago.

Puerto Princesa Ri ver Location: Philippines

Fast Facts: The Puerto Princesa Underground River is 8.2km long. It flows into the sea, after passing through some of the most beautiful rock formations in the world.

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Iguazu Falls Location: Argentina + Brazil

Fast Facts: The word Iguazu roughly means ‘big water’. It is the largest water- fall system in the world and was formed as the result of a volcanic eruption. It sits between Argentina and Brazil, and the rainforest surrounding the falls boasts 2,000 species of plants.

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