Photos of Rengasdengklok, Indonesia
Travel articles Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard? While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Cast Your Vote: 2009 World Savers Awards Taken a green trip lately? Booked yourself into an eco-efficient hotel? Conde Nast Traveler wants to know. We're looking for nominees for our annual World Savers Awards, which honor the best in earth-friendly travel, from hotels to cruise lines to airlines to tour companies. We'll send your nominees an application that covers five areas of good works: poverty alleviation, cultural and environmental preservation, wildlife conservation, health, and education.
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