Blue Gala 2025

2024 Sheep Show

Esker trail, by Cold Creek.

E Alu Pū translates to 'Move Forward Together' .. This pre- IUCN Conservation Congress gathering, held in O'ahu brought together many cultures from around the world to exchange insight and chart a path forward, protecting our planet and people for the future. The Sustainable Southeast Partnership joined indigenous leaders from across British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was honored to attend the E Alu Pu Gathering and IUCN World Conservation Congress, representing our globally unique communities and ecosystems.

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Photos not to be used without explicit permission of Bethany Goodrich and/or the Sustainable Southeast Partnership

Conservation Jobs Corps held at Patuxent River Park and Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary July 2011

Thanks to Iona Topp for these photos from Tanzania Marine Conservation & Diving. Find out more at www.frontiergap.com

Marbled godwits search out food with their beaks below the mud in shallow wetlands like this one within an agricultural field in the Lake Andes Wetland Management District in South Dakota. Photo credit: Liz Julian/USFWS

Images thanks to Oda Eeg. For more information please visit the Madagascar Marine Conservation page of the Frontier website.

Conservation Corps at Brumley Forest, 2015

Rupal's snaps

walking through Allan Park Conservation Area, October 2017

A few days ago, I once again visited the conservation area at Landons Bay, this time hoping to see Clearwing Moths, aka Hummingbird Moths, that might be visiting a dense bed of late summer flowers parting a woodland and marsh. Instead of the moths, I got the real thing,… at least a couple of individual Ruby-throated Hummingbirds; based on their plumage identified as either females or young males.

Photographing Hummingbirds in their natural settings comes with its challenges for their size, 7.5 cm (3") from tip of beak to tip of tail, unannounced arrivals, very erratic flights and very fleeting physical manifestation. They can stop instantly, and for a few seconds hover, and adjust their position up, down, sideways or backwards with exquisite control, prior to moving on, sometimes in the same area but hidden by vegetation but generally to a distant location out of view, occasionally shooting up in the sky like an arrow. The saving grace for a photographer is that they have a somewhat predetermined foraging route and regularly return to the same patch of tubular-shaped flowers where they feed on nectar with pinpoint precision. In my experience, they make another round to the same general location every 15 to 30 minutes. It’s a matter of being patient, ready to take the shots and accepting the birds may depart before the camera lens is even pointed at them. Photographing them at a birdfeeder would remove a major spatial degree of freedom, hence facilitating their captures on visual media. However, I prefer the challenge of observing this bird and document its behaviour as well as that of other wildlife in their natural habitats.

I was fortunate to have a couple of productive photo sessions with the tiny, one-gram birds and more so when they perched on tree branches in my proximity looking for insects or preening, in one case with a bird revealing the amazing length of its tongue.

As for the Clearwing Moths, I keep looking for them as they are just as fascinating.

Thousand Islands, Ontario, Canada.

2024 Sheep Show

Hang glider

Thanks to Iona Topp for these photos from Tanzania Marine Conservation & Diving. Find out more at www.frontiergap.com

UK Conservation Wolf Trust

Mason Valley, NV

Jamboree participants and visitors walks past a polar bear outside in the Environmental Conservation Area at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, Wednesday July 28, 2010. Photo by Mark Duncan..**********Beginning of Shooting Data Section**********.Canon EOS-1D Mark IV iso - 400 f/9 shutter - 1/200.file name - 6732-01-010-070 date - 7/28/10 time - 2:41:41 PM.program - Shutter Priority white balance - Auto.meter - multi-segment tone comp - 0 exp. comp - 0.0.flash - no flash

A trip to Wildwood

Thanks to Ellie Foott for her photos from Madagascar Marine Conservation & Diving. Find out more at www.frontiergap.com

Thanks to Kirsten Inglis for her photos from Madagascar Wildlife Conservation Adventure. Find out more at www.frontiergap.com

Thanks to Iona Topp for these photos from Tanzania Marine Conservation & Diving. Find out more at www.frontiergap.com

A rare Sumatran Tiger taking a dip in an enclosure at Adelaide Zoo, Australia

Mastered field, Manikganj

E Alu Pū translates to 'Move Forward Together' .. This pre- IUCN Conservation Congress gathering, held in O'ahu brought together many cultures from around the world to exchange insight and chart a path forward, protecting our planet and people for the future. The Sustainable Southeast Partnership joined indigenous leaders from across British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was honored to attend the E Alu Pu Gathering and IUCN World Conservation Congress, representing our globally unique communities and ecosystems.

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Photos not to be used without explicit permission of Bethany Goodrich and/or the Sustainable Southeast Partnership

Images by Mack Prichard.

An aerial view shows continuing preparations around illegal stockpiles of ivory stacked up onto 10 individual pyres on April 27, 2017 in Nairobi's national park as they wait to be burned, in what is said to be the biggest stockpile destruction in history.

Kenya on April 30, 2016 will burn approximately 105 tonnes of confiscated ivory, almost all of the country's total stockpile at an event attended by several African heads of state, conservation experts, high-profile philanthropists and celebrities which they hope will send a strong anti-poaching message. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA

some say its good, some say its not . Has scores of dhalia anemones

Elaine Brownlee of Bryson Energy delivering an energy conservation workshop at Hart Memorial PS.