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At Close Range
Travel+Leisure US
|February 2026
By sending vacation snaps to scientists, travelers can help preserve underwater wonders.
A scuba diver photographs a coral reef near Wakaya Island, in Fiji.
THE ASSIGNMENT was clear: I was to scuba dive 15 feet below the waves in the Pacific Ocean, near New Zealand’s Poor Knights Islands, and capture a photo. The waters teemed with colorful aquatic life, but it was tricky to get a perfect shot amid the oceanic swells.
This was to be expected, though. I had just begun my two-day underwater photography course with
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Earthly Paradise
Wild and tame, loose and lyrical: over centuries, the English have elevated garden design to an art form. On a tour of the country’s lush southeast, Amy Waldman swoons over a landscape in full bloom.
14 mins
April 2026
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MAKING LOCAL CONSERVATION GLOBAL
“I’m a crazy bird person,” says Adam Betuel. That’s a point of pride for the executive director of Birds Georgia, the nonprofit he’s been leading for more than a decade.
1 min
April 2026
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Lightening Its Impact
It has become de rigueur for remote luxury lodges to put an emphasis on sustainability, but Beckons is working to take its globe-spanning portfolio further.
1 min
April 2026
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GROWING TOGETHER
Conceived as a small cooperative of female farmers back in 2000, the Grenada Network of Rural Women Producers, or GRENROP, has since expanded to a nearly 80-member force for sustainable agriculture.
1 min
April 2026
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Restoring an African Jewel
It was once one of the greatest safari parks in Africa. Yet by the beginning of this century, Gorongosa National Park, in Mozambique, was a wildlife wasteland.
1 min
April 2026
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Taking the Broad View
“When the problems are big, we need big solutions,” says Deli Saavedra, the director of Jaguar Rivers Initiative.
1 min
April 2026
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Reinvesting in Natural Wonders
Millions flock to southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage every year to witness humpback whales breaching and massive glaciers calving into the sea.
1 min
April 2026
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GIVING VOICE TO THE NEEDY
Since 2011, the renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and his wife, Veronica Berti Bocelli, have raised more than $90 million for the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, which is now involved in more than 50 projects worldwide.
1 min
April 2026
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Creating More Space for Calm
Sweden’s newest nature preserve is also one of its most distinctive: Nämdöskärgården National Park, which was established in 2025, spans about 100 square miles, around 97 percent of which is brackish water that’s populated by blue mussel beds and coral-like red algae.
1 min
April 2026
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REWILDING THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
The largest private landowner in the United Kingdom, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, has a 200-year vision to rewild 220,000 acres in the Scottish Highlands.
1 min
April 2026
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