New7Wonders of Nature
There is a website operated by the New7Wonders Foundation which is actually a huge poll. More than one hundred million people have already voted for a ranking of world wonders. Now there is a new vote for seven wonders of nature, which means a sort of ranking for biotopes, geotopes and so forth.
We do not know if this is an altruistic initiative or just a way to collect millions of addresses. Please decide yourself if you want to vote.
However, we were astonished today as we learned that many of the top ten ranks are actually karst related. There is Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park currently on rank 1, a river cave located on the Philippines, then there is Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, which is actually a flooded tower karst with abundant caves, the Chocolate Hills on the Philippines is also a tower karst area with many caves, Ali Sadr Cave is a show cave in the Iran. This means four of the first ten on the list are karst related. Not too bad….
This is only a snapshot of 01-OCT-2008. For an actual list look at:
The top 77 candidates of the New7Wonders of Nature Nominees