National parks - the wonderful beauty of the Earth

National parks are unique places of wild nature, in which human activity is strictly limited. The purpose of their creation is the preservation of the miraculous miracles of our planet, the protection of the animal and plant life, the conduct of research work. These are the favorite places of tourist trips, which leave unforgettable impressions and make you stop in admiration for the beauty and wonderfully harmonious arrangement of life on Earth.

The first national parks began to be created in the 19th century. So, in 1872 the Yellowstone Park was opened in the USA, and in 1916 a full-fledged National Park Service was established. In Europe this tradition was supported, and in 1914 in Switzerland the national park of the canton Graubünden was opened. In 1916 in the Irkutsk province was created Barguzinsky Reserve - the first in the history of Russia.

National parks allow preserving unique ecosystems in their natural habitat so that people do not have to observe, for example, bison or elephants only in zoos, and endangered plant species - exclusively in the form of herbariums. They also create parks for observing rare natural phenomena: glaciers, waterfalls, geysers.

So, the most famous parks in the world - what are they?

Yellowstone Park

A truly unique place in the world. Hot multicolored springs, geysers, cracks in the craters give this place a completely unearthly appearance. Here is the highest geyser in the world, called "Steamboat", and the dormant volcano is the Yellowstone caldera. It is very ancient and just a few times over the last two million years, it has thrown out lava. After such eruptions, the main part of the park was covered with freakish frozen patterns of cosmic relief.

Another local attraction is the famous Mamontov springs, in which boiling water with chemical impurities boils, forming yellow, white and gray terraces with limestone deposits.

And the greatest admiration is usually caused by colored springs with hot water. Algae-like organisms live in these water bodies, which color the bottom in fanciful overflows of red, yellow, orange, blue and turquoise.

The Grand Canyon

National parks of the USA are rightfully proud of this geological miracle of nature. The Grand Canyon is a deep crevice that quirks around the state of Arizona. The age of this creation of nature totals 10 million years, and the depth in some places exceeds 1800 meters.

In 2007, a transparent bridge was built, connecting the two edges of a deep cleft. Only here it is possible to experience an unforgettable feeling of hovering over a precipice of 1200 meters. And the layers of stony rocks that formed over the multimillion-year history of the canyon, play and shimmer in the sunlight with bizarre colors.

Serengiti

African national parks attract many tourists with their inimitable wildlife and fauna. The Serengiti Tanzan Park, located in the savannah zone, was no exception. In open spaces grazing herds of zebras and antelope-gnu, giraffes and gazelles. In the thick undergrowth of the bush hides a rare species - the Cairo buffalo. For animals that live here, natural seasonal migration follows the rain. Numerous predators - lions, leopards, jaguars roam after ungulates.

The Central Kalahar Nature Reserve

In this place tourists are not allowed. Only scientists can study here who study the natural life of Bushmen who are carrying out their subsistence economy. And the main protected object in the reserve is a unique plant of velvichia.

Blue Mountains Park

The name is translated as "blue mountains", and this unique place is located in the southeast of Australia. In addition to amazing mountain landscapes - parts of the Watershed Range, here you can observe exotic Australian animals and birds - platypus, opossum, gray giant kangaroos, wind swirls, yellow flycatchers, lyrebirds. Many places of the Blue Mountains park remain inaccessible, and there has never been a foot of a man before.

Currently, almost every country can boast of its own unique reserve, so it is simply impossible to tell about all the interesting places in the framework of one article.

All national parks of the world endlessly impress the imagination with their diversity and beauty, because the unique nature of our planet will never cease to amaze and delight.