Gallo Landscapes Gallery

Sunlight streaming through early morning mist in redwood forest, Redwood National Park, California, USA

The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are old growth temperate rainforests located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park (established 1968) and Californias Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks (dating from the 1920s), the combined RNSP contain 139, 000 acres (560 km2). Located entirely within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, the four parks, together, protect 45 percent of all remaining coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) old growth forests, totalling at least 38, 982 acres (157.75 km2)

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Fireball lily, Scadoxus multiflorus, blooms in the forest zone on Mount Kilimanjaro, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania.

Visitors to Africa's tallest mountain and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world, Mount Kilimanjaro, pass through five distinct vegetation zones as they climb in altitude--bushlands, forest, semi-alpine heath, alpine desert, and the arctic zone

1054004434, Alpine, Bloom, Forested, Green, Low Altitude, Lush, Mount Kilimanjaro

Distant view of a small traditional 'flat' house under blue sky and surrounded by golden wavy grass , Coffee Bay, Eastern Cape province, South Africa

The rural area of the Eastern Cape where Nelson Mandela was born, formerly known as the Transkei during apartheid years, is still largely populated by the traditional isiXhosa tribe. The isiXhosa tribe is one of the poorest cultures in the world today and most people live without electricity or running water in their homes