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Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since December 1, 1999, the belfry of Mons shall open once again its doors to tourists, after 25 years of renovation, early 2015.
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Classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Cairns Esplanade, Cairns, Queensland
The former gas station of the Belgian Army on the site of the former German Ordensburg in the German Eifel.
Due to the typical architecture of such buildings from the 1950s, this building is a classified monument....
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster
(Red-bellied Grackle / Cacique candela)
The red-bellied grackle is endemic to Colombia where it is found in all three Andean ranges at altitudes of 800 to 2,400m (2,600 to 7,900ft) above sea level.
Its natural habitat is tropical forest, but the trees are increasingly being felled for timber and to make way for agriculture, and little virgin forest remains within its range.
H. pyrohypogaster was formerly classified as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature but in 2012 the threat level was lowered to "vulnerable". This is on the basis that, although its forest habitat remains under pressure, it has been found at some new locations where it was not known before. The total population is now estimated to be in the range 2,500 to 9,999 individuals.
Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first to be scientifically classified, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola
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Frost's bolete is a widely distributed mushroom in the eastern and southwestern US. Boletes are classified as a groupd of mushrooms that produce their spores in tubular structures under the cap, rather than gills. Found growing in association with hardwood trees, especially oak. The network pattern of the stipe (the stalk) and the amber droplets produced along the cap in young fruiting bodies.
Eastgate Park, Meridian Township, Michigan
Shot with single off-camera strobe (Leica SF60/Leica SF C1 trigger) positioned camera right at approximately 20 degrees, slightly above subject, modified with MagMod MagSphere diffuser.
-- Dogwood Tree Facts --
‧ The flowering dogwood is the state tree of Virginia and Missouri.
‧ It is also the state flower of North Carolina.
‧ Dogwood was used to treat dogs with mange, which could be a possible origin of the plant’s name.
‧ The white “petals” of dogwood trees are actually not petals at all! They’re leaves called bracts. The actual flowers are the small yellow clusters in the center of the bracts.
‧ Dogwoods flowers come in various colors from white to deep pink. They can even be found in a pale yellow color. However dogwood flowers don’t have as wide of a range of color as other flowers (such as roses and orchids).
‧ Dogwood trees produce red fruit in the fall. This red fruit looks similar to cranberries, but is classified as a drupe. Drupes are fruits with pits in the center; other examples include peaches, plums, cherries, olives, pecans and almonds.
‧ The average lifespan of a dogwood tree is 80 years.
‧ There are two ways branches can grow on trees: opposite branching (when branches grow directly opposite each other) and alternate branching (when the branches alternate). Dogwood trees have opposite branching which is more rare than alternate branching.
‧ The dogwood tree is deciduous, so it drops its leaves during the winter.
‧ Atlanta holds a yearly dogwood festival. The first year of the Atlanta Dogwood Festival was 1936.
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
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Camera - Nikon D5200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 250
Aperture – f/5.6
Exposure – 1/200 second
Focal Length – 72mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Dans le bas du village de Salles-la-Source se trouve l'église romane Saint-Paul, classée Monument Historique.
On comptait à Salles-la-Source, au XIIe siècle, cinq châteaux et quatre églises.
Des lieux saints, l'église Saint-Paul est la seule à n'avoir subi ni la ruine, ni la reconstruction. Le transept, en dépit de quelques remaniements, appartient au XIIe siècle. Huit chapiteaux sont décorés de différentes sculptures.
Parmi l'intéressant mobilier et malgré le vol de plusieurs statues, le grand crucifix du XIIe siècle est conservé avec ses peintures originelles.
At the bottom of the village of Salles-la-Source is the Romanesque church of Saint-Paul, classified as a Historic Monument.
In Salles-la-Source, in the 12th century, there were five castles and four churches.
Of the holy places, the Saint-Paul church is the only one to have suffered neither ruin nor reconstruction. The transept, despite some alterations, belongs to the 12th century. Eight capitals are decorated with different sculptures.
Among the interesting furniture and despite the theft of several statues, the large 12th century crucifix is preserved with its original paintings.
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
I am only permitted to report that this photo is one of the secret training locations the village botty coughing team use in order to perform new techniques.👀
The venue is being used to practice and perfect one of the most dangerous stunts ever undertaken by a botty coughing display team, yes synchronised botty coughing, timing and delivery are crucial elements of the final outcome and safety of this manoeuvre.🙈⛑
Once this technique has been fully approved by the CAA, it will be used during displays when the ladies are eventually allowed to go out on tour performing to the public. At the time of going to press, Polly Polkinghorne and Bertha Ruthblows were unavailable to comment on how the days testing had gone, brrrrrrp💨💨💨💨
It is very clear by the above footage that during rehearsals the two meter rule was fully complied with, the team are very neat in their performing arts, I repeat arts.👩🎤👨🎨🎨🎭
Oh I must tell you this before I go, Horace was pulled over for speeding on his skateboard travelling to this location, the officer looked at Horace and asked “have you got a police record” Horace responded, Iv’e got ‘Walking on the moon’🚓🐷🌝
Have a lovely weekend.👍😎
Thank you so much for viewing my photos, your comments and banter are so appreciated🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷🐎🐷💃😎😂😂😂
This Yellow-billed Stork was photographed at Lake Elementaita (also spelled Elmentaita) where we stopped on our way to the Maasai Mara. It’s a beautiful stork that was originally classified as an ibis, hence the scientific name, shown below. It now is believed to be a close relative of our American Wood Stork and behaves similarly. It’s a contact feeder, like our stork, swishing its beak through the water and snapping down when it makes contact with prey. In the background are flamingos. (Yellow-billed Stork, aka Wood Stork, aka Wood Ibis – Mycteria ibis) (Sony a1, 200-600mm @ 588mm, 1/4000 second, f/6.3, ISO 640)
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With VIA 186 tucked away in the siding at Pogamasing, CPKC 119 swiftly departs Sheahan crossing the Spanish River and a swift beneath the bridge. In whitewater terminology, a Class I rapid is the lowest level of difficulty and a Class VI rapid is the highest, where swifts are sections of moving water, but not quite big enough to be a classified as a rapid. Swifts tend to happen where the river narrows or the riverbed gets shallow. If you look closely, there is a "chute" with moderate whitewater beneath the bridge where both of these things happen. The whitewater in a swift is created by miniature waves from the fast moving water, unlike in a Class I or Class II rapid where the whitewater is generally from water recirculating over a rock.
The small hamlet of Sheahan can also be seen between the train and the river in the distance. A couple small camps (one cabin is visible) are all that are left from what was at one point a thriving logging community - MP 23.26 Nemegos Sub.
Ninja / Intelligence
Classified Series Jinx is an alright figure. I did remove the unnecessary tattoo sleeve, and I swapped out her sword for the swords and backpack that was included with Quick Kick. I don't understand why Hasbro seemed to have swapped their swords around. I did have to repaint these swords, as the silver paint that was on them began to rub off way too easily. I think they look much better now.
"Charlie is a Shaman, a medicine man. He's not a healer or a priest or a witch-doctor. There isn't any equivalent in our culture for what he is unless we had shrinks that could actually help people."
Spirit is my new favorite so far in the classified series. He is perfect.
Classified, bro.
•Born in USSR
•Braydenmaine
•Lucky Striker
•Miko
•Beck
•Stirling
•Snipes
•Bowlingdude
•Torongo
•Skye
•Matthew
•Shockwave
•Worlock
•Wezzy
•Deadly
•SPW
•SHC
Mostly my shit with people's good stuff.
Code: www.mediafire.com/?ki8n22bchj28bav (483.62KB) I reduced the code apparently. By a good amount, too. Original was 682.97KB.
Classified in the flickstrsBETA
«N'est-il pas raisonnable de penser que les gens qui ne boivent jamais de vin sont des imbéciles ou des hypocrites ? Des imbéciles, c'est-à-dire ne connaissent ni la nature, ni l'homme... Des hypocrites, c'est-à-dire des gourmands honteux, des fanfarons de sobriété, buvant en cachette ou ayant quelque vie occulte...
Un homme qui ne boit que de l'eau a un secret à cacher à ses semblables.»
[Charles Baudelaire]
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The Cathcart Tower is located on Cedar Island in the St. Lawrence River of the Thousand Islands National Park of Canada near Kingston, Ontario. The Cathcart Tower is a Classified Federal Heritage Building because of its historical military associations and architectural value. It is closely associated with the defence of British North America and Canada in the mid-19th century. The tower is one of four Martello towers representing part of the final phase of the Kingston area defence system. The final phase of construction was spurred by the Oregon Crisis of 1845-1846 over a Canada-US boundary dispute, during which war between Great Britain and the United States seemed imminent. The crisis was resolved while the Kingston Martello Towers were under construction and there was no need to arm them until 1861-1862 when British-American relations again deteriorated during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. The Cedar Island Cathcart Tower therefore represents pre-Confederation efforts to maintain sovereignty during a period of American expansion.
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La tour Cathcart est située sur l'île Cedar, dans le fleuve Saint-Laurent du parc national des Mille-Îles du Canada, près de Kingston, en Ontario. La tour Cathcart est un édifice fédéral du patrimoine classé en raison de ses associations militaires historiques et de sa valeur architecturale. Elle est étroitement associée à la défense de l'Amérique du Nord britannique et du Canada au milieu du XIXe siècle. La tour est l'une des quatre tours Martello représentant une partie de la phase finale du système de défense de la région de Kingston. La phase finale de construction a été stimulée par la crise de l'Oregon de 1845-1846 à la suite d'un conflit frontalier entre le Canada et les États-Unis, au cours duquel la guerre entre la Grande-Bretagne et les États-Unis semblait imminente. La crise a été résolue pendant la construction des tours Martello de Kingston et il n'a pas été nécessaire de les armer avant 1861-1862, lorsque les relations entre la Grande-Bretagne et les États-Unis se sont à nouveau détériorées pendant la guerre civile américaine de 1861-1865. La tour Cathcart de l'île Cedar représente donc les efforts déployés avant la Confédération pour maintenir la souveraineté pendant une période d'expansion américaine.
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION
Exerpts by Niles Eldredge
There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. As long ago as 1993, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that Earth is currently losing something on the order of 30,000 species per year — which breaks down to the even more daunting statistic of some three species per hour. Some biologists have begun to feel that this biodiversity crisis — this “Sixth Extinction” — is even more severe, and more imminent, than Wilson had supposed.
Extinction in the past
The major global biotic turnovers were all caused by physical events that lay outside the normal climatic and other physical disturbances which species, and entire ecosystems, experience and survive. What caused them?
The previous mass extinctions were due to natural causes.
First major extinction (c. 440 mya): Climate change (relatively severe and sudden global cooling) seems to have been at work at the first of these-the end-Ordovician mass extinction that caused such pronounced change in marine life (little or no life existed on land at that time). 25% of families lost (a family may consist of a few to thousands of species).
Second major extinction (c. 370 mya): The next such event, near the end of the Devonian Period, may or may not have been the result of global climate change. 19% of families lost.
Third major Extinction (c. 245 mya): Scenarios explaining what happened at the greatest mass extinction event of them all (so far, at least!) at the end of the Permian Period have been complex amalgams of climate change perhaps rooted in plate tectonics movements. Very recently, however, evidence suggests that a bolide impact similar to the end-Cretaceous event may have been the cause. 54% of families lost.
Fourth major extinction (c. 210 mya): The event at the end of the Triassic Period, shortly after dinosaurs and mammals had first evolved, also remains difficult to pin down in terms of precise causes. 23% of families lost.
Fifth major extinction (c. 65 mya): Most famous, perhaps, was the most recent of these events at the end-Cretaceous. It wiped out the remaining terrestrial dinosaurs and marine ammonites, as well as many other species across the phylogenetic spectrum, in all habitats sampled from the fossil record. Consensus has emerged in the past decade that this event was caused by one (possibly multiple) collisions between Earth and an extraterrestrial bolide (probably cometary). Some geologists, however, point to the great volcanic event that produced the Deccan traps of India as part of the chain of physical events that disrupted ecosystems so severely that many species on land and sea rapidly succumbed to extinction. 17% of families lost.
How is The Sixth Extinction different from previous events?
The current mass extinction is caused by humans.
At first glance, the physically caused extinction events of the past might seem to have little or nothing to tell us about the current Sixth Extinction, which is a patently human-caused event. For there is little doubt that humans are the direct cause of ecosystem stress and species destruction in the modern world through such activities as:
-transformation of the landscape
-overexploitation of species
-pollution
-the introduction of alien species
And, because Homo sapiens is clearly a species of animal (however behaviorally and ecologically peculiar an animal), the Sixth Extinction would seem to be the first recorded global extinction event that has a biotic, rather than a physical, cause.
We are bringing about massive changes in the environment.
Yet, upon further reflection, human impact on the planet is a direct analogue of the Cretaceous cometary collision. Sixty-five million years ago that extraterrestrial impact — through its sheer explosive power, followed immediately by its injections of so much debris into the upper reaches of the atmosphere that global temperatures plummeted and, most critically, photosynthesis was severely inhibited — wreaked havoc on the living systems of Earth. That is precisely what human beings are doing to the planet right now: humans are causing vast physical changes on the planet.
What is the Sixth Extinction?
We can divide the Sixth Extinction into two discrete phases:
-Phase One began when the first modern humans began to disperse to different parts of the world about 100,000 years ago.
-Phase Two began about 10,000 years ago when humans turned to agriculture.
Humans began disrupting the environment as soon as they appeared on Earth.
The first phase began shortly after Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and the anatomically modern humans began migrating out of Africa and spreading throughout the world. Humans reached the middle east 90,000 years ago. They were in Europe starting around 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals, who had long lived in Europe, survived our arrival for less than 10,000 years, but then abruptly disappeared — victims, according to many paleoanthropologists, of our arrival through outright warfare or the more subtle, though potentially no less devastating effects, of being on the losing side of ecological competition.
Everywhere, shortly after modern humans arrived, many (especially, though by no means exclusively, the larger) native species typically became extinct. Humans were like bulls in a China shop:
-They disrupted ecosystems by overhunting game species, which never experienced contact with humans before.
-And perhaps they spread microbial disease-causing organisms as well.
The fossil record attests to human destruction of ecosystems:
-Wherever early humans migrated, other species became extinct.
-Humans arrived in large numbers in North America roughly 12,500 years ago-and sites revealing the butchering of mammoths, mastodons and extinct buffalo are well documented throughout the continent. The demise of the bulk of the La Brea tar pit Pleistocene fauna coincided with our arrival.
-The Caribbean lost several of its larger species when humans arrived some 8000 years ago.
-Extinction struck elements of the Australian megafauna much earlier-when humans arrived some 40,000 years ago. Madagascar-something of an anomaly, as humans only arrived there two thousand years ago-also fits the pattern well: the larger species (elephant birds, a species of hippo, plus larger lemurs) rapidly disappeared soon after humans arrived.
Indeed, only in places where earlier hominid species had lived (Africa, of course, but also most of Europe and Asia) did the fauna, already adapted to hominid presence, survive the first wave of the Sixth Extinction pretty much intact. The rest of the world’s species, which had never before encountered hominids in their local ecosystems, were as naively unwary as all but the most recently arrived species (such as Vermilion Flycatchers) of the Galapagos Islands remain to this day.
Why does the Sixth Extinction continue?
The invention of agriculture accelerated the pace of the Sixth Extinction.
Phase two of the Sixth Extinction began around 10,000 years ago with the invention of agriculture-perhaps first in the Natufian culture of the Middle East. Agriculture appears to have been invented several different times in various different places, and has, in the intervening years, spread around the entire globe.
Agriculture represents the single most profound ecological change in the entire 3.5 billion-year history of life. With its invention:
-Humans did not have to interact with other species for survival, and so could manipulate other species for their own use
-Humans did not have to adhere to the ecosystem’s carrying capacity, and so could overpopulate
-Humans do not live with nature but outside it.
Homo sapiens became the first species to stop living inside local ecosystems. All other species, including our ancestral hominid ancestors, all pre-agricultural humans, and remnant hunter-gatherer societies still extant exist as semi-isolated populations playing specific roles (i.e., have “niches”) in local ecosystems. This is not so with post-agricultural revolution humans, who in effect have stepped outside local ecosystems. Indeed, to develop agriculture is essentially to declare war on ecosystems - converting land to produce one or two food crops, with all other native plant species all now classified as unwanted “weeds” — and all but a few domesticated species of animals now considered as pests.
The total number of organisms within a species is limited by many factors-most crucial of which is the “carrying capacity” of the local ecosystem: given the energetic needs and energy-procuring adaptations of a given species, there are only so many squirrels, oak trees and hawks that can inhabit a given stretch of habitat. Agriculture had the effect of removing the natural local-ecosystem upper limit of the size of human populations. Though crops still fail regularly, and famine and disease still stalk the land, there is no doubt that agriculture in the main has had an enormous impact on human population size:
-Earth can’t sustain the trend in human population growth. It is reaching its limit in carrying capacity.
-Estimates vary, but range between 1 and 10 million people on earth 10,000 years ago.
-There are now over 6 billion people.
-The numbers continue to increase logarithmically — so that there will be 8 billion by 2020.
-There is presumably an upper limit to the carrying capacity of humans on earth — of the numbers that agriculture can support — and that number is usually estimated at between 13-15 billion, though some people think the ultimate numbers might be much higher.
This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction. There is a vicious cycle:
-Overpopulation, invasive species, and overexploitation are fueling the extinction.
-More lands are cleared and more efficient production techniques (most recently engendered largely through genetic engineering) to feed the growing number of humans — and in response, the human population continues to expand.
-Higher fossil energy use is helping agriculture spread, further modifying the environment.
-Humans continue to fish (12 of the 13 major fisheries on the planet are now considered severely depleted) and harvest timber for building materials and just plain fuel, pollution, and soil erosion from agriculture creates dead zones in fisheries (as in the Gulf of Mexico)
-While the human Diaspora has meant the spread, as well, of alien species that more often than not thrive at the detriment of native species. For example, invasive species have contributed to 42% of all threatened and endangered species in the U.S.
Can conservation measures stop the Sixth Extinction?
Only 10% of the world’s species survived the third mass extinction. Will any survive this one?
The world’s ecosystems have been plunged into chaos, with some conservation biologists thinking that no system, not even the vast oceans, remains untouched by human presence. Conservation measures, sustainable development, and, ultimately, stabilization of human population numbers and consumption patterns seem to offer some hope that the Sixth Extinction will not develop to the extent of the third global extinction, some 245 mya, when 90% of the world’s species were lost.
Though it is true that life, so incredibly resilient, has always recovered (though after long lags) after major extinction spasms, it is only after whatever has caused the extinction event has dissipated. That cause, in the case of the Sixth Extinction, is ourselves — Homo sapiens. This means we can continue on the path to our own extinction, or, preferably, we modify our behavior toward the global ecosystem of which we are still very much a part. The latter must happen before the Sixth Extinction can be declared over, and life can once again rebound.
© 2005, American Institute of Biological Sciences. Educators have permission to reprint articles for classroom use; other users, please contact editor@actionbioscience.org for reprint permission. See reprint policy.
Paleontologist Dr. Niles Eldredge is the Curator-in-Chief of the permanent exhibition “Hall of Biodiversity” at the American Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor at the City University of New York. He has devoted his career to examining evolutionary theory through the fossil record, publishing his views in more than 160 scientific articles, reviews, and books. Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisisis his most recent book.
www.gc.cuny.edu/directories/faculty/E.htm
Articles and Resources on The Sixth Extinction
Consequences of the Sixth Extinction
The article “How Will Sixth Extinction Affect Evolution of Species?,” on our site, describes how the current loss of biodiversity will affect evolution in the long run.
www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/myers_knoll.html
BioScience Article
“Global Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.”
Habitat destruction has driven much of the current biodiversity extinction crisis, and it compromises the essential benefits, or ecosystem services that humans derive from functioning ecosystems. Securing both species and ecosystem services might be accomplished with common solutions. Yet it is unknown whether these two major conservation objectives coincide broadly enough worldwide to enable global strategies for both goals to gain synergy. In this November 2007, BioScience article, Will Turner and his colleagues assess the concordance between these two objectives, explore how the concordance varies across different regions, and examine the global potential for safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services simultaneously. Read the abstract, or log in to purchase the full article.
caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1641/B571009
Biodiversity in the next millennium
American Museum of Natural History’s nationwide survey (undated) “reveals biodiversity crisis — the fastest mass extinction in Earth’s history.”
cbc.amnh.org/crisis/mncntnt.html
National Geographic
A 2/99 article about the Sixth Extinction, with views from several leading scientists.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/9902/fngm/index.html
Extinction through time
Find out about cycles of life and death and extinction patterns through time.
www.carleton.ca/Museum/extinction/tablecont.html
Is Humanity Suicidal?
Edward O. Wilson asks us why we stay on the course to our own self-destruction.
www.well.com/user/davidu/suicidal.html
A Field Guide to the Sixth Extinction
Niles Eldredge writes in 1999 about a few of the millions of plants and animals that won’t make it to the next millennium. The second link takes you to the site’s main page, entitled “Mass Extinction Underway — The World Wide Web’s most comprehensive source of information on the current mass extinction,” which provides links to numerous other resources.
www.well.com/user/davidu/fieldguide.html
www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html
Global Environment Outlook 3
The United Nations Environment Programme released this major report in May 2002. The report collated the thoughts of more than 1,000 contributors to assess the environmental impact of the last 30 years and outline policy ideas for the next three decades. It concluded that without action, the world may experience severe environmental problems within 30 years. The entire report can be read online or purchased online.
www.unep.org/geo/geo3/index.htm
Test your environmental knowledge
A 1999 survey showed that only one in three adult Americans had a passing understanding of the most pressing environmental issues. How do you measure up? Explanatory answers provided.
www.youthactionnet.org/quizzes/global_environment.cfm
World Atlas of Biodiversity — interactive map
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the firstWorld Atlas of Biodiversityin August 2002. This link takes you to their online interactive map that helps you search for data about species/land/water loss, extinction over time, and human global development. Click on the “?” for a help page that explains how to interact with this map.
stort.unep-wcmc.org/imaps/gb2002/book/viewer.htm
The Sixth Great Extinction: A Status Report
Earth Policy Institute’s 2004 update on the status of loss of biodiversity.
www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update35.htm
Books
» The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Countsby The American Museum of Natural History (New Press, 2001).
» The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of of Life and the Future of Humankindby Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin (Doubleday and Company, 1996).
Get Involved
The Biodiversity Project
You can choose a way to get involved in protecting biodiversity — from educational resources to community outreach.
www.biodiversityproject.org/html/resources/introduction.htm
The Nature Conservancy
Select a state from the menu and find out how you can become an environmental volunteer in that state.
Information for Action
“This website explains the environmental problems & offers solutions to fix them. There are many valuable resources available” including lobbying info, contacts database, & news updates.
Harmony
“Harmony Foundation is all about education for the environment. We offer publications and programs… ‘Building Sustainable Societies’ offers innovative training for educators and community group leaders to support local action on important environmental issues.”
Earth Talk: Environmental advocacy for professionals
This discussion community and learning network seeks to contribute to global ecological sustainability by enabling communication connections between those working on behalf of forests, water, and climate.
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Tiger Illustration by Dorothy Lathrop from
"Fierce-Face: The story of a tiger" by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1936)
NGC 6744 is classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy and has a similar structure to the Milky Way. It’s located in the southern constellation Pavo at a distance of about 30 million light-years. The low surface brightness of this galaxy requires long exposures to reveal the wonderful structures near the core and along its arms. The similarities with our own galaxy include the elongated core, flocculent (fluffy) arms, and a similar companion galaxy NGC 6744A, similar to one of the Magellanic Clouds in our own galaxy. The arm on the top left is most likely distorted by this companion galaxy. NGC 6744 is a member of the Virgo Supercluster.
This image was created from exposures taken through five different filters. The RGB component was used to create the base colour layers. Details of the galaxy and its core were revealed with the luminance filter. Finally, Ha highlights the presence of emission nebula throughout the galaxy.
Even after their long journey, the photons captured have revealed a beautiful galaxy with integrate structures near its core as they were some 30 million years ago in the past. This is perhaps the main reason why I enjoy this hobby so much. To be in a position where I can take incredible images from objects so far away. The time taken for light to reach us is almost unimaginable. It's really nice to have my own time machine that allows observing objects as they were millions of years ago.
Equipment Details:
•10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
•Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
•SBIG STL 11000m
•FLI Filter Wheel
•Astrodon LRGB Filters
•Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
Exposure Details:
•Red 15X600
•Green 18X600
•Blue 23X600
•Lum 47X900
•Ha 41X1200
Total time: 33.4 hours
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El Lago Todos los Santos se encuentra en el Parque Nacional Vicente Perez Rosales famoso por el color tuqueza de sus aguas y por dar nacimiento al rio Petrohue que origina los hermosos Saltos del Petrohue.
El Parque Nacional Vicente Perez Rosales es uno de los mas antiguos y populares parques nacionales de Chile, contiene grandes extensiones de "Selva Valdiviana" o "Bosque Andino Lluvioso Norpatagonico" y tambien es parte de la gran reserva "Bosques Templados Lluviosos de los Andes Australes" un área natural protegida ubicada en las regiones de Los Lagos y de Los Ríos que fue declarada reserva de la biosfera por la Unesco en septiembre de 2007; reconocida en 1998 por el Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza (World Wildlife Fund) como un punto clave en la conservación internacional, y sus bosques catalogados como uno de los remanentes boscosos más grandes y ecológicamente intactos de la Tierra por el Instituto Mundial de Recursos (World Resources Institute – WRI).
Incluye los Parques Nacionales Vicente Pérez Rosales, Puyehue, Villarrica, Alerce Andino y Hornopirén; y las Reservas Naturales Mocho Choshuenco, Llanquihue y Futaleufú.
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All Saints Lake is located in the Vicente Perez Rosales National Park famous for the turquoise color of the water and give birth to the river Petrohue that originates the beautiful Petrohue Falls.
The Vicente Perez Rosales National Park is one of the oldest and most popular national parks in Chile, contains large tracts of "Valdivian Forest" or "Andean Patagonian Rain Forest" and is also part of the great reserve "Temperate Rain forests of the Austral Ande" is a Biosphere Reserve in southern Chile. A protected area located in the regions of Los Lagos and Los Ríos. It was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 2007 and recognized in 1998 by the World Wildlife Fund (World Wildlife Fund) as a key in international conservation, and forests classified as one of the largest remaining forests and ecologically intact on Earth by the World Resources Institute (World Resources Institute - WRI).
The reserve comprises the following protected areas:
Villarrica National Park (Partially)
Puyehue National Park
Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park
Alerce Andino National Park
Hornopirén National Park
Mocho-Choshuenco National Reserve
Llanquihue National Reserve
Futaleufú National Reserve
Lysimachia clethroides, the gooseneck loosestrife, is a species of flowering plant, traditionally classified in the family Primulaceae. It was transferred to the family Myrsinaceae based on a molecular phylogenetic study, but this family was later merged into the Primulaceae.
Wikipedia
Scientific name: Lysimachia clethroides
Family: Primulaceae
Genus: Lysimachia
Kingdom: Plant
Order: Ericales
Biological rank: Species
Got my Amazon exclusive Roadblock this week. He's a solid figure, I'm glad I got him. His minigun is nice, but way to big and heavy, so I swapped it here for an old chap mei SAW that I've had for years.
This beautiful Malachite Butterfly was classified and given its scientific name by Carolus Linnaeus (1758) and Jacob Hübner (1761-1826; in 1823); as far as I can gather, Hübner devised 'Siproeta' for what Linnaeus called 'Papilio stelenes'. It's curious that these men get the credit for classifying our Malachite Green Wonder.
Well before their work, intrepid Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), fine artist and excellent naturalist, had traveled to Surinam specifically as she herself writes 'om naauwkeuriger onderzoekinge te doen' - to do more precise research than possible in Europe - especially on exotic plants and insects. She published her magnificent results back in Holland in 1705. One of the first detailed descriptions and paintings in her wonderful Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium is of a Pineapple and a Malachite in its various stages of development. Engagingly Merian writes about finding a caterpilar on that Pineapple in early May 1700; by May 10 it had transformed itself into a pupa and by the 18th it emerged as a Butterfly. She lovingly illustrates each of these stages. She's far more readable than the stark one-line Latin prose of either Linnaeus or Hübner. It must be said though that Linnaeus at least refers to her ('Merian. surin. 2.t.2') in the abbreviated shorthand which is his habit even if modern authors don't.
As for the Pineapple, Merian writes that 'the taste of this fruit is as if one mixes grapes, apricots, red berries, apples and pears, which can then all be relished at the same time'.
PS I have no idea how Hübner came up with 'Siproeta'. The best guess I have is that there may be by way of C[S]iproeta some connection to the Greek Κύπρος, for the isle of Cyprus perhaps for its copper ore deposits. Copper oxide is, of course, green, which would fit Malachite well! Likely far-fetched, though.
Oh, yes... as an afterthought, our Malachite's food plant here in the Butterfly House of the Amsterdam Zoo is Lantana camara, Tickberry, that pantropical pestweed! The photo doesn't show the color of its flower but it's white and yellow.
just a cute little smg i threw up with mostly all the "secret" or "hidden" parts, i must say, i quite like this one alot;] .
Classified Abnormalities.
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Das Experimentieren mit schwebenden Stimmen, die mit den Fingern gleiten, verzweifelte Blasen, instabile Fantasien, umschließen unbeschreibliche Gefühle,
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αλαζονικό περιστρεφόμενο καταπληκτικό λογοτεχνικό ταξίδι αποτελεσματικός ρεαλισμός συγκέντρωση περίεργα χάπια περιπετειώδη οπτικά χρόνια εγκεφαλικό φλοιό ευκαλύπτου συνείδηση καταβροχθίζοντας πνευματικά χαρτιά,
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Classified as "NT", this distinctive stork is found from the subcontinent to Indonesia. Ranthambhore.
During the days of Timetable & Train Order operation, classification lights on locomotives were an important safety feature. Able to be illuminated in white, green, or red, class lights were used to indicate whether a locomotive was pulling an unscheduled extra train, had a second section of the same train following it, or was on the tail end of a train, respectively. When computers and electronic communication methods came into use during the 1960s and 70s, TT&TO operation was phased out, and classification lights were no longer needed. Many new locomotives were built without them, some older ones had their class lights removed, and today, it's rare to find a locomotive with class lights still intact. One survivor is Hartwell Railroad number 1973, a former CSX, ex-Conrail, nee Penn Central GP38, seen here at Lavonia, Georgia.