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Biomes visited
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an Individual By Sanjana Bhowmick
The record for visiting the maximum number of terrestrial biomes in the world was set by Nitin Gairola. He visited 15 terrestrial biomes from January 2007 to July 2017, including Tropical and subtropical Coniferous Forests in India, Mangroves in Malaysia, Ice and Tundra in Greenland, Montane Grasslands and Shrublands in Peru and Deserts and Xeric Shrublands in Morocco.
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n adventure traveller, nature & wildlife photographer, a published writer and poet and a business management professional, that’s Nitin Gairola, an India Book of Records Holder. He travelled to many remote places on Earth, exploring all-natural biomes or ecological regions, continents and nearly a century of countries. It is his quest to document and better understand the planet and its inhabitants. Talking to IBR about his passion for travel, Nitin says, “My greatest passion was learning about the planet first hand through world travel. Over the years, I started focusing a lot more on the natural world than the human one during my travels. That greatly influenced my choice of destinations and I started visiting more and more remote places on the planet, such as the polar ice cap in Greenland, the dense rain forests of Central Africa, or the barren deserts in the middle of the Australian Outback or the great Sahara.”
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India Book of Records | July 2021
