Leon Aliski is a writer, researcher and consultant for the tourism industry. He has traveled all over the world to view and study some of the most famous eco-destinations, Yellowstone National Park, where he participated in a week-long study tour;to Nebraska's Platte River, where the world's largest concentration of sandhill cranes gather each year; Guatemala and TikalNational Park, where magnificent Mayan temples endure and an abundance of wild species still thrive; and most recently, the highland plateaus of the Province of El Carchi in northern Ecuador, where unique plant life flourishes and Andean condors still soar.