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Diomedes Botanical Garden
The Diomedes Botanical Garden is the largest botanical garden in Greece, located in Chaidari on the western edge of Athens and holding over 2,500 plant species.
Dipriz Animal Park
Dipriz Animal Park (Парк животных «Диприз», Парк жывёл «Дыпрыз») is a private 344-hectare zoo-landscape park near Baranovichi, Belarus, founded in 2011 by furniture firm Dipriz LLC, officially opened 2020, with about 100 species and two pedestrian zones.
Dipterocarp Collection
Dipterocarp Collection: living ex situ collections of Dipterocarpaceae trees at FRIM (1929, 120 species), XTBG (1981, 34 species in 7 genera), Singapore's OCBC Arboretum, and Bogor, for research and conservation.
Director of the National Park Service
The Director of the National Park Service heads the federal agency that manages US national parks and monuments, an office created by the 1916 Organic Act.
Distinctive Plant Collection (奇花异卉园, w126984824)
Distinctive Plant Collection (奇花异卉园, also 奇花异木园) is a 1999-built themed garden of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, in Mengla, Yunnan, displaying about 250 to 300 tropical oddity plants such as dancing grass and miracle fruit.
Donald J. Trump State Park
Donald J. Trump State Park is a 436-acre undeveloped passive park in Westchester and Putnam counties, New York, donated by Donald Trump in 2006 on condition it bear his name; site of a disputed valuation and renaming bills.
Doñana National Park
Doñana National Park (Parque Nacional de Doñana): national park and wetland in Andalusia, Spain, created 1969, UNESCO World Heritage 1994; famed for migratory birds, Iberian lynx, and aquifer-driven drying.
Dorrigo National Park
Dorrigo National Park, NSW North Coast, Australia: World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests park on the Great Escarpment, established 1967, about 11,900 ha, with the Dorrigo Rainforest Centre, Skywalk, and a $56.4M Great Walk project due 2028.
Dracaena Collection
Dracaena Collection (龙血树园), the dragon blood tree garden at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China; established 2002 on 16 mu, holding 78 species and varieties including 31 Dracaena taxa conserved for Dragon's Blood medicine.
Dragon Park
Dragon Park names several leisure sites: a 1.98-hectare Jiang-nan-style garden park in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong (opened 2007); Dragon Park Halong in Vietnam; a dragon-sculpture playground in Lewisville, Texas; and a TANZA Egypt zone.
Dry Tortugas Light
The Dry Tortugas Light is an 1858 lighthouse on Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, an active aid to navigation until it stopped working in 2014.
Dubai Butterfly Garden
Dubai Butterfly Garden, opened March 24, 2015 in Al Barsha South, Dubailand, is billed as the world's largest covered butterfly garden: over 15,000 butterflies of 50-plus species in ten climate-controlled domes at 24°C, beside Dubai Miracle Garden, open daily 9 AM–6 PM.
Dubai Miracle Garden (حديقة الزهور بدبي)
Dubai Miracle Garden (حديقة الزهور بدبي), opened February 14, 2013 in Dubailand, is the world's largest natural flower garden: 72,000 sqm, 150+ million flowers, seasonal October–May operation, and a record-setting floral Emirates A380.
Düden Şelalesi
Düden Şelalesi (Düden Waterfalls), Antalya, Turkey: two falls on one karst river. Upper Düden in Kepez drops about 20 m with a walk-behind cave; Lower Düden (Karpuzkaldıran) drops 40 m off Lara cliffs into the Mediterranean.
Dudhwa National Park
Dudhwa National Park (दुधवा राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), a 490 km² Terai park in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, on the Nepal border; core of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve with tigers, swamp deer, and reintroduced one-horned rhinos.
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks is a Georgetown, Washington, D.C. estate whose Beatrix Farrand gardens were given in 1940 to Harvard (research institute, museum) and to the National Park Service (Dumbarton Oaks Park).
East Asian Department
East Asian Department (აღმოსავლეთ აზიის განყოფილება), the largest floristic section of the Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: 6.05 ha, 40% of the living collection, 1913 Japanese introductions, Tertiary relicts, and a Japanese garden.
East Bay Regional Park District
The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) is an independent special park district managing 73 parks across 126,809 acres in Alameda and Contra Costa counties east of San Francisco.
East Coast Greenway
East Coast Greenway: 3,000-mile developing walking and biking route from Calais, Maine to Key West, Florida through 15 states and 450 communities; over 1,100 traffic-free miles, coordinated by the East Coast Greenway Alliance founded 1991 in Durham, NC.
East Rennell
East Rennell is the southern third of Rennell Island in Solomon Islands, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1998 and on the danger list since 2013.
Ecological Trail Garden of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and South China Medicinal Plants Garden
Ecological Trail Garden of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and South China Medicinal Plants Garden (香徑藥谷生態園區及南藥園), IAM-run medicinal plant gardens in Seac Pai Van Park, Coloane, Macao; about 30,000 m2, eight habitat zones, roughly 320 medicinal plant species, closed management with group booking.
Ecology (site)
An ecological research site is a location used for ecological research, teaching, species conservation, and public education, ranging from historic university gardens to purpose-built research gardens.
Ecopark Varna
Ecopark Varna (Екопарк Варна), the University Botanical Garden of Sofia University in Varna, Bulgaria: founded 1977, opened 11 May 2002 as Bulgaria's first ecopark, 36 ha, 300+ exotic tree and shrub species, 250+ iris varieties, Roman-era archaeological finds.
Eden Project
The Eden Project is an educational charity and visitor attraction at Bodelva, Cornwall, opened 17 March 2001 in a disused china clay pit, with Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, 25 million-plus visitors, £6.8 billion regional economic impact, and new Edens in Qingdao and Morecambe.
Effigy mound
An effigy mound is an earthen mound shaped like an animal or spirit figure, built by Indigenous peoples of southern Wisconsin between about AD 650 and 1200.
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Effigy Mounds National Monument is a National Park Service unit in northeastern Iowa preserving more than 200 prehistoric Native American mounds, including 31 bear and bird effigies.
Ekopark Holá Hora
Ekopark Holá Hora, a free-entry ecological park in Prešov, Slovakia, on Botanická street, run by Technické služby mesta Prešov; children's water world, educational programs, part of the protected area Holá hora.
El Ávila National Park
El Ávila National Park, officially Waraira Repano since 2011, is a Venezuelan national park decreed in 1958 covering over 85,000 ha of the Cordillera de la Costa between Caracas and the Caribbean, rising to Pico Naiguatá at 2,765 m.
El Hamma Experimental Garden
The El Hamma Experimental Garden (Jardin d'Essai du Hamma, حديقة التجارب الحامة) is a 32-hectare botanical garden at the Bay of Algiers, created by decree in 1832.
El Malpais National Monument
El Malpais National Monument, Spanish for "the badlands," is a 114,000-acre NPS unit near Grants, New Mexico, established in 1987, protecting the Zuni-Bandera volcanic field's young lava flows, lava tubes, and ice caves.