Former Buddhist monk from British county Nottinghamshire has spent 35 years for creation of traditional Japanese garden at the place of wasteland. The man refined two acres of land.
76-year-old Buddha Maitreya planted cherries, bamboos, and other plants, which assimilated in British climate. As well, pensioner constructed storage pond and filled it with carps.
In their park, the citizen of Nottinghamshire meditates and arranges tea ceremonies. The former monk takes ten dollars from adults and nearly 5 dollars from children to enter Japanese garden.
Japanese man arrived in Great Britain in 1980 after travels in Thailand, Nepal, and India. He spent nearly 18 thousand dollars for farming house and started creating garden which had to resemble him motherland.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
Protected environmental zone with the square of more than 1.5 million square kilometers will be located in Ross Sea. The agreement has been signed by European Union and 24 more countries, including Russia.
Since 1907 the population of mammals, fishes, birds, amphibia and reptiles has reduced by almost 60%, as it is said in the report of World Wild Nature Fund.
In the title of the most long-ruling monarch 90-year-old governess replaced the king of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej, 89, who died on the 13-th of October. He came to the throne in 1946. The reason of death has not been implicated yet.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
At the beach Legzira located at the Atlantic coast of Morocco, there was a wreckage of one of two stone arches that used to be the famous sightseeing of the country. The Guardian reports about that.
The delegates of the conference of Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) happened in Republic of South Africa voted for prohibition of international trade in African gray parrots.
The lord Ivar Mountbatten, the cousin of queen of the Great Britain Elizabeth II has confessed that he is bisexual. It is the first case when a member of British royal family speaks about his untraditional sexual orientation in public, as it is reported on Sunday, on the 18-tyh of September, by Daily Mail.
The efforts of zoologists, ecologists and significant financial expenses that have been invested in the program of salvation of ounce brought their fruits. Particularly, the predator has been seen more often by the citizens of several provinces of Afghanistan that ounce preferred choosing as its habitat.
The largest in the world kind of apes from the genus of gorillas, particularly, Eastern gorilla residing within the territory of Democratic Republic Congo is on the edge of extinction because of the illegal hunting.
USA will invest $15 million in the program on fight with the climatic change in Central Asia, the head of state department John Kerry claimed at the meeting with ministers of foreign affairs of five Central Asian countries in Washington.
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
The experts of travel web-portal Travelbird.nl has defined that the cheapest beach in the world is situated in Vietnam. Cua Dai is located in popular among travelers city Hoi An in the central province of the country Quảng Nam.
The list of UNESCO World Heritage that connects the most significant landmarks of the planet either man-made or natural is reviewed annually. This year at the 40-th session of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee which ended in Istanbul on the 20-th of July, the list included 21 sites more.
