Welcome to WideNature.com! From the wide open plains of Africa to the highest summits in Asia, our world boasts an incredible variety of landscapes and lifeforms. This website presents a collection of photographs from some of the world's nature reserves. You are welcome to send comments or suggestions to info@widenature.com

Gerardo C. Angelo

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News and updates:

May 22, 2010: 

China: added/updated 10 galleries covering a number of reserves in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces (300+ photos in total):  Huanglong, Jiuzhaigou, Wolong (red panda, birds), Siguniang, Taizhangou/Maoniugou, Yilhun Lhatso (blue sheep, white-lipped deer), Sershul (Tibetan woolly hare, birds), Madoi (kiang, Tibetan gazelle, bar-headed geese, ruddy shelduck, black-necked crane, golden eagle, white-tailed eagle, Tibetan wolf), Zadoi (Tibetan fox) and Donggi Tso 

Dec 22, 2009:

Wildlife of the Tibetan Plateau - added preview page; full galleries to be added soon

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2010!

Jun 01, 2009: 

Malaysia: added 6 new galleries with 300+ photos from my recent trip to Borneo island: Bako National Park (tidal mangrove forest; mudskippers, fiddler crabs, proboscis monkeys, kingfishers, snakes and very strange insects), Danum Valley Conservation Area (lowland dipterocarp forest;  wild orangutans, colugos, rhinoceros hornbill, frogs, lizards, lantern bugs, camouflaged geckos and insects), Gunung Gading National Park (Rafflesia and Amorphophallus flowers in bloom), Kinabalu National Park (misty mountain forests; birds),  Malua Forest (a forest in regeneration process; night views of leopard cat, civets, slow loris, Bornean pygmy elephant), Semenggoh Nature Reserve (semi-wild orangutans, Prevost's and giant squirrels)

Russia: added new photos to the Komandor Islands gallery (provided by Valeriy Lisovskiy and Dmitry Utkin)

Mar 29, 2009: 

• Portugal: more photos of great bustards and other species of birds from Castro Verde protected area in Alentejo. I took these photos during the annual great bustard survey - my thanks to the teams of LPN and ICNB who conducted the survey.

Mar 22, 2009:  

• Portugal: photos of bustards and storks from Castro Verde protected area in Alentejo.
• Russia: Central Siberian Nature Reserve, a vast taiga reserve covering around 1.800.000 ha (photos and text provided by Marina Rubtsova).

Feb 08, 2009:   

• Russia: added more photos to the Komandor Islands gallery (provided by Valeriy Lisovskiy)

Jan 19, 2009:  

• Portugal: more photos of cranes in Moura / Mourão / Barrancos area.
• Russia: added photos and text from three reserves in the Russian Far-East: the Komandor Islands, an archipelago full of wildlife located off the Pacific coast east of Kamchatka (photos and text notes provided by Nikolay Pavlov), Lazo, a forest reserve in Primorskiy region, including photos of Amur Goral and the tracks of an Amur Tiger in the snow (photos and text provided by Alexander Myslenkov), and Bureya, in Khabarovsk region (photos and text provided by A. Dumikyan). Also added photos from the Putorana Plateau (provided by V. V. Larin).

Dec 24, 2008:   

• Portugal: underwater photos from the marine section of Arrábida Nature Park, provided by Miguel Tomar Nogueira.
• Russia: Bolonskiy Nature Reserve, an important wetland on the Amur region (Russian Far-East). Text and photos provided by Aleksandr Chernish.

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2009!

Dec 08, 2008:  

• Portugal: photos from Moura / Mourão / Barrancos protected area in Alentejo, including large numbers of Eurasian Cranes that winter in this part of the country.

• Russia: Taimyr Nature Reserve, a cluster of protected areas in the far North of Siberia totalling over 2.7 million ha. Text and photos used with permission from Elena Pospelova. Vodlozero National Park, a vast Taiga reserve (500.000 ha), one of the largest forest parks in Europe, in Karelia Republic and Arkhangel'sk region. Text and photos provided by Natalia Gudym.

Nov 22, 2008:  

• Russia: Kenozero National Park (Arkhangel'sk region). Besides natural features, this park preserves the ancient culture of the Russian North. It includes several old villages with beautiful wooden churches.  Text and photos provided by Alexandra Shatkovskaya.

Nov 15, 2008:  

• Russia: Lena Delta Nature Reserve, located in the far north of Sakha Republic (Yakutia), where the great Siberian river Lena flows into the Laptev sea in the Arctic Ocean. Text and photos provided by A. Gukov and I. Yakshina

• Greenland (DK): photos of Kangerlussuaq area in the winter, including the vast Greenland Ice Cap, by Pedro Lobato

Nov 03, 2008: Website is officially launched, following its first major content update. Added photo galleries for: 

• Kenya: 300+ photos from the Samburu Complex (Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba National Reserves), including local species and subspecies such as reticulated giraffe, Grevy zebra, Somali ostrich, gerenuk and Beisa oryx, and two Rift Valley lakes full of flamingos: Nakuru and Bogoria.  

• Japan: Arashiyama Park in the outskirts of Kyoto in the late Autumn
• Norway: a glimpse of the mighty Jostedalsbreen icecap, with photos from two of its most accessible glacier tongues - Nigardsbreen and Bergsetbreen
• Portugal: photos from Arrábida Nature Park, Peneda-Gerês National Park , Montesinho Nature Park and SW Alentejano / Costa Vicentina Nature Park
• Spain: photos from Parque Natural de la Serranía de Cuenca, Parque Nacional Doñana and Parque Nacional Tablas de Daimiel
• Sweden: photos from the small Tyresta National Park, an old growth forest right on the outskirts of Stockholm
• China: two new sites were added: Taizhangou, a mountainous nature reserve in Western Sichuan, and the World Heritage area of Wulingyuan / Zhangjiajie in Hunan. Additional photos were loaded to the Huanglong, Jiuzhaigou and Wolong galleries. Text description was added to Huanglong 

Sep 21, 2008: Website is pre-launched, with the first photo galleries:

• China: three World Heritage sites in Western Sichuan: Huanglong, Jiuzhaigou and Wolong.
• Germany: photos from Berchtesgaden NP  in the Bavarian Alps after an early Spring snowstorm
• Poland: the Tatra mountains south of Zakopane in the early Spring