Sutter Buttes - United States

The Sutter Buttes of Northern California's Sacramento Valley are where life began and where life ends. Playing a role in the traditional creation and afterlife stories of the Maidu and Wintun peoples, this ...

Xingu River System - Brazil

The Xingu River system, which runs through central Brazil northward to the Amazon, is a vital part of the complex ecosystem that sustains the world’s largest rainforests and a great diversity of cultures. ...

Black Mesa - United States

Every day for 35 years, 3.3 million gallons of pure groundwater were pumped from the Navajo aquifer, which flows beneath the Hopi and Navajo nations in northeastern Arizona. Peabody Western Coal Co. used the water to transport coal via a ...

Mount Tenabo - United States

Mount Tenabo and its environs are part of Newe Sogobia, the ancestral land of the Western Shoshone, which has never been legally ceded to the federal government. Nevertheless, U.S. politicians and multinational corporations have ignored an 1863 federal treaty acknowledging ...

Uluru-Kata Tjuta - Australia

Rising 1,100 feet above the Australian desert, the red sandstone monolith known as Uluru is not just an international tourist destination but a symbol of the Aboriginal struggle for land rights and a ...

Nine Sacred Mountains - China

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Bogd Khan Uul - Mongolia

Crowned by one of the four holy peaks surrounding the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, Bogd Khan Uul Strictly Protected Area is Mongolia's — and perhaps the world's — oldest officially and continuously protected site. ...