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White Sands National Park
White Sands National Park, formerly White Sands National Monument, protects the world's largest gypsum dunefield in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin and became the 62nd US national park in 2019.
Whiteshell Provincial Park
Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba's first provincial park (established 1961 or 1962 by source), is a 2,729 km2 Natural Park on the Precambrian Shield with petroforms, the Mantario Trail, and about 200 lakes.
Wickaninnish Beach
Wickaninnish Beach, at the south end of Long Beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve near Tofino and Ucluelet, BC; home of the Kʷisitis Visitor Centre, surfed year-round, with restored sand dunes threatened by invasive beachgrass.
Wild Araceae Garden
野生天南星园 (Wild Araceae Garden, 天南星园), an Araceae living collection at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan; founded 1995, about 12 mu, holding 30 genera and 147 species, China's largest Araceae collection.
Wild Orchid Garden
野生兰花园 (wild orchid garden): a conservation-focused orchid collection, especially the 9.08-mu Wild Orchid Garden founded in 2000 at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, holding nearly 200 wild orchid species for ex situ conservation and research.
Wild River State Park
Wild River State Park is a 6,768-acre Minnesota state park in Chisago County along 18 miles of the St. Croix River near Center City, authorized 1973, opened 1978, with 94-site campground, 30-plus miles of trails, and Nevers Dam Overlook.
Wilhelma
Wilhelma, the zoological-botanical garden of Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, is Germany's only combined zoo and botanical garden, founded as a Moorish-style royal park by King Wilhelm I, inaugurated 1846, a zoo since 1952, with 1,200 animal and 8,500 plant species.
William O'Brien State Park
William O'Brien State Park: Minnesota's first metro-area state park (est. 1947), on the St. Croix River near Marine on St. Croix; about 1,880 acres, 12 miles of trails, Lake Alice, and a 2025 accessibility project.
Wilpena Pound
Wilpena Pound (Ikara, "meeting place") is a 17 by 8 km natural amphitheatre of quartzite walls in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, within Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, with St Mary Peak at 1,166 m and Adnyamathanha co-management.
Wilson State Park (Kansas)
Wilson State Park, Kansas state park in Russell County on 9,000-acre Wilson Reservoir, established 1966; Hell Creek and Otoe camp areas, 24.5-mile Switchgrass bike trail, 8 cabins, striped bass fishing.
Wimbledon Common
Wimbledon Common, part of Wimbledon and Putney Commons (1,140 acres), is a London common governed by the 1871 Act, designated SSSI and SAC for heathland and stag beetle, managed by Conservators funded by a local levy.
Wind Cave
Wind Cave is a large limestone cave in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, known for boxwork found there more abundantly than in all other caves combined.
Wind Cave bison herd
Wind Cave bison herd: American bison herd in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, founded 1913 with 14 Bronx Zoo bison plus 6 Yellowstone bison in 1916; about 350-450 animals, among the most genetically diverse US conservation herds.
Windsor Great Park
Windsor Great Park: 1,942-hectare (4,800-acre) royal park near Windsor Castle, Berkshire, owned by the Crown Estate; features the Long Walk, Virginia Water, Savill Garden; Grade I registered; Ranger is King Charles III since 2022.
Wollemi National Park
Wollemi National Park: 488,620-hectare NSW national park northwest of Sydney, second largest in the state, part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and sole home of the critically endangered Wollemi pine.
Wolves and moose on Isle Royale
Wolves and moose on Isle Royale form a single-predator, single-prey system on an island in Lake Superior, studied continuously since 1958, the world's longest-running predator-prey study.
Wonju Children's Traffic Park
원주어린이교통공원 (Wonju Children's Traffic Park) is a traffic-safety education park in Wonju, Gangwon, the first of its kind in the province, with miniature roads, signals, and crosswalks, now run under private outsourcing.
Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park is Canada's largest national park, straddling Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Established 1922, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, it holds the world's largest wood bison herd and the only whooping crane breeding habitat.
Wormsloe Historic Site
Wormsloe Historic Site (Wormsloe State Historic Site) is an 822-acre Georgia state park on the Isle of Hope near Savannah, preserving Noble Jones's 1736 colonial estate, its tabby fort ruins, live oak avenue, and the oldest continuously owned family estate in Georgia.
Wuhai Botanical Garden
Wuhai Botanical Garden (乌海植物园) is a 140-hectare 2A-rated open urban garden in northern Haibowan District, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, converted from the city nursery, opened in 2004, with 38 tree species, 300,000 trees, and 11 scenic zones.
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS (中国科学院武汉植物园), a research-oriented botanical garden founded 1956 and established 1958 in Wuhan; one of China's three core CAS botanical gardens, with 13,000+ species, world-leading kiwifruit and aquatic plant collections, and the Sino-African Joint Research Center.
Wuhan Zoo
Wuhan Zoo (武汉动物园), a comprehensive municipal zoo on Moshui Lake in Hanyang District, Wuhan, China; 67 hectares, once ranked among China's eight major zoos (1987), reopened September 28, 2023 after renovation with 1,100+ animals of 138 species and pandas Wulin and Mengmeng.
Wyperfeld National Park
Wyperfeld National Park, in semi-arid north-west Victoria, is Australia's first mallee national park (reserved 1909, permanent 1921), 357,017 ha, third-largest in Victoria, with Outlet Creek lake beds and Wotjobaluk co-management.
Xardín Botánico de Lourizán
Xardín Botánico de Lourizán (Botanical Garden of Lourizán), a 52-hectare botanical garden and arboretum in Pontevedra, Galicia, founded 1949 within the Lourizán Forest Research Center, holding over 850 taxa and notable trees listed in the Catálogo Galego de Árbores Senlleiras.
Xi'an Qinling Wildlife Park
Xi'an Qinling Wildlife Park (秦岭野生动物园), also called Qinling Wildlife Zoo, is a large safari park in Chang'an District, Xi'an, at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, with walking and driving areas, pandas, and hundreds of species.
Xiamen Botanical Garden
Xiamen Botanical Garden (厦门园林植物园), also called Wanshi Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden on Wanshi Mountain on Xiamen Island, Fujian, China, first built in 1960 and home to more than 8,600 plant taxa.
Xiangyang Wildlife World
Xiangyang Wildlife World (襄阳野生动物世界) is a 3A-level wildlife theme park in Nanzhang County, Xiangyang, Hubei, China, holding more than 70 species and 4,000 animals, with a 600-meter drive-through carnivore zone.
Xiaoyeliu
Xiaoyeliu (小野柳, Little Yehliu, formerly Jialulan) is a coastal geopark in Fugang, Taitung, Taiwan, part of East Coast Fugong Geopark (2020). Its overturned Fugang sandstone turbidites, an exotic block in the Lichi melange, form turtle, tofu, and mushroom rocks.
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG, 西双版纳热带植物园), CAS, founded 1959 by Cai Xitao at Menglun, Yunnan; a 1,125-ha tropical garden and research institute with 39 collections, 14,000+ species, herbarium, and field stations.
Yanchep National Park
Yanchep National Park, near Perth, Western Australia: a ~2,800 ha park with Loch McNess wetlands, limestone caves with a threatened aquatic root mat community, koala viewing, and a 1930s heritage resort precinct.