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"Dimitrie Brandza" Botanic Garden
"Dimitrie Brandza" Botanic Garden (Grădina Botanică "Dimitrie Brandza"), University of Bucharest botanical garden founded 1860, moved to Cotroceni site in 1884; 18.2 ha, ~4,000 taxa, herbarium over 520,000 specimens.
15-minute city
The 15-minute city, coined by Carlos Moreno in 2016, is an urban planning model placing daily needs within a 15-minute walk or bike ride; championed by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and adapted in Melbourne, Portland, and other cities.
2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires
The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, chiefly the human-caused Chimney Tops 2 Fire reported November 23, 2016, killed 14 people, burned about 11,000 park acres plus 6,000 in Sevier County, and destroyed over 2,400 buildings in Gatlinburg amid 87 mph gusts and drought.
A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden
A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden (Ботанічний сад ім. О. В. Фоміна), founded 1839 in Kyiv, is the 22.5-hectare university botanical garden of Taras Shevchenko National University, named for director O. V. Fomin, with major tropical, woody, and rare-plant collections.
Abrolhos Marine National Park
Abrolhos Marine National Park (Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos), Brazil's first marine national park, created 1983 off Bahia; Ramsar site 1902; protects chapeirões coral reefs and the humpback whale nursery. Distinct from Australia's Abrolhos Marine Park.
Aburi Botanical Gardens
Aburi Botanical Gardens is a 64-hectare botanical garden at Aburi, Ghana, opened in 1890 on the Akuapem Ridge, where colonial crop trials tested cocoa, coffee, and rubber.
Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park is a national park on the coast of Maine, first established east of the Mississippi and known for Cadillac Mountain and its carriage roads.
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, formerly Company Bagan and Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta, is a 273-acre Botanical Survey of India garden in Shibpur, Howrah, founded in 1787 by Robert Kyd, home of the Great Banyan Tree.
Achilleion Palace Garden
Achilleion Palace Garden, Corfu: the sculpture gardens of Empress Elisabeth's 1891 palace at Gastouri, with the Peristyle of the Muses, 19th-century Roman statues in the Canova-Thorvaldsen circle, replanted by Kaiser Wilhelm II after 1907.
Active Leisure Park 0.67
Парк актыўнага адпачынку «0,67» (Active Leisure Park 0.67, 067.by) is an outdoor recreation park 4 km from Minsk's MKAD on the Slutsk highway, offering paintball, laser tag, rope courses, quests, and event rentals.
Adelaide Botanic Garden
The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a 51-hectare public botanic garden in Adelaide, South Australia, opened in 1857 and known for its 1877 Palm House and the State Herbarium.
Afton State Park
Afton State Park is a 1,600-acre Minnesota state park in Washington County on the St. Croix River, established 1969, opened 1982, with backpack-only camping, blufftop prairies, and 12 miles of cross-country ski trails.
Agricultural experience Park
Agricultural experience park (农事体验园): a venue for hands-on farming, picking, and farm education, from the 1.8-hectare IBCAS garden at China National Botanical Garden to large rural leisure-agriculture parks in China, Japan, and Korea.
Ajuda Botanical Garden
Jardim Botânico da Ajuda (Ajuda Botanical Garden), Lisbon; founded 1768 as Real Jardim Botânico da Ajuda, Portugal's first botanical garden and 15th in Europe, designed by Domingos Vandelli, now run by the Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
Akureyri Botanical Garden
Akureyri Botanical Garden (Lystigarður Akureyrar), Iceland's first public park (1912) with a botanic section added 1957; about 3.6 ha near the Arctic Circle in Akureyri, holding 430 native species and 6,600 alien taxa, free entry year round.
Al-Andalus Garden
Al-Andalus Garden (Hadiqat al-Andalus) is a 1935 heritage garden on Gezira Island, Cairo, built by Mohamed Bey Zulfikar in Andalusian and Pharaonic styles; Egypt's first registered heritage garden, restored and reopened in 2024.
Al-Forat Park
متنزه الفرات (Al-Forat Park, Euphrates Park): name shared by several Iraqi recreation places, notably a park and adjoining casino in Samawah, Muthanna Governorate, a free family park in Najaf/Kufa, and parks in Dhi Qar and Anbar.
Al-Sabeen Park
Al-Sabeen Park (حديقة السبعين) is the largest public park in Sana'a, Yemen, at about 391,000 square meters, established by investor Abdulla Al-Maghshi in 1986 with Yemen's first amusement city, and a leading family recreation venue.
Al-Shihr Corniche Park
Al-Shihr Corniche Park (حديقة كورنيش الشحر) is a public waterfront park in Al-Shihr District, Hadhramaut, Yemen, part of a World Bank-funded, UNOPS-implemented three-phase corniche; phase one opened 27 December 2023 at US$560,000 over 150 by 50 meters.
Alboudozerah
Alboudozerah (البودزيرة) is a park and recreation area in Benghazi, Libya, about 7 km north of the city center in Al-Kuwaifiya, built around a natural lake.
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden (Grădina Botanică „Alexandru Borza") is Babeș-Bolyai University's botanic garden in Cluj-Napoca, Romania: founded 1920, opened 1925, 14 hectares, about 10,000 taxa, Romania's largest herbarium (750,000 sheets), Japanese and Roman gardens, six-compartment greenhouses.
Alexandru Buia Botanical Garden
Alexandru Buia Botanical Garden (Grădina Botanică „Alexandru Buia”), Craiova, Romania: university botanical garden founded 1952 by Prof. Alexandru Buia, about 12.8 ha, 6,000 taxa, 400,000-sheet herbarium, IABG member since 1974.
Algonquin Provincial Park
Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario's oldest (1893) and third largest provincial park, about 763,000–772,000 ha, a Natural Environment park with 2,000+ km of canoe routes, ongoing logging, and private cottage tenure.
Allerton Park
Allerton Park names two historic landscapes: a 205-ha grade II registered park around Allerton Castle near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, and Allerton Park & Retreat Center, Robert Allerton's 1,500-acre Illinois estate given to the University of Illinois in 1946.
Alpine National Park
Alpine National Park: national park in eastern Victoria, Australia, managed by Parks Victoria, stretching from Gippsland to the NSW border adjoining Kosciuszko. Contains Mt Bogong, Victoria's highest peak; part of the 2008 Australian Alps National Heritage listing.
Alpingarten Hirzer - Giardino alpino Punta Cervina
Alpingarten Hirzer (Giardino alpino Punta Cervina) is a free alpine garden opened June 2017 at the Klammeben mountain station (2,000 m) of the Hirzer cable car in Schenna, South Tyrol, near the 2,781 m Hirzer summit.
Altay botanical garden
Altay Botanical Garden (Алтайский ботанический сад, Алтай ботаникалық бағы), founded 7 January 1935 in Ridder, Kazakhstan; a research institution for plant introduction holding 1,632 species across 37 ha of expositions, a protected natural territory.
Alter Botanischer Garten (Switzerland)
The Alter Botanischer Garten, or Old Botanical Garden, is a public park in central Zurich, Switzerland, laid out in 1837 and formerly the University of Zurich's botanical garden.
Alvin McDonald
Alvin Frank McDonald (1873–1893), also signed ZUQ, was the first tour guide and systematic explorer of Wind Cave, South Dakota, mapping 8–10 miles by candlelight before dying of typhoid at 20.
Alwahda Park
Alwahda Park (حديقة الوحدة, Unity Park) is a 5.9-acre public park in Sana'a, Yemen, on Algiers Street in the Al-Wahda district, open daily 06:00 to midnight, distinct from same-named parks in Seiyun and Amman.