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St Mary, Akenham, Suffolk
East Anglia has more remote churches than Akenham, but can any be so lonely? Here we are, just four miles from the Cornhill in the centre of Ipswich, with the blocks of flats on Whitton within sight, but almost a mile from the nearest proper road and with just two old farmhouses for company.
Standing here on a narrow, muddy track through the fields, I find myself easily transported back through more than a century. I must turn my back on Whitton, one of Suffolk's biggest and most deprived housing estates. Barely a mile from where I now stand, I have seen children play in the wrecks of burned-out vehicles; any weekend, police helicopters light up the night as they track the course of joyriding car thieves. I turn my back on the houses and the distant traffic of the A14, on the little spire of Whitton's pretty parish church. And all I hear is the skylark invisible above me, the gentle rush of the wind in the hedgerow, the sound of a dog from nearby Rise Hall.
In front of me stands St Mary, Akenham. Along with Rise Hall, this little lost church was the scene of one of the great ecclesiatical scandals of the 19th century, a scandal that occupied the national press for a year or more; a scandal that reached the highest courts in the land, and ultimately led to a change in the law. It is the story of a conspiracy, a tale of manipulation and persecution. Even more than this, it was a watershed in the controversy surrounding the Oxford Movement, and the irresistible rise of Anglo-catholicism.
To find out what happened here, let us go back a little further, to the 1860s. The vicar with charge of this parish was the rector of Claydon, Father George Drury, one of the new breed of ultra-ritualists. His introduction of candles and a cross on to the altar at Claydon, as well as vestments, daily communion and even incense, scandalised the local protestants, and led to his admonishment by the Bishop of Norwich. For all these things were quite illegal, of course; several priests had been prosecuted, and a few of them imprisoned, one for more than a year. Others were persecuted into breakdown, early death and even suicide.
Drury's greatest crime, in the eyes of his opponents, was the establishment at Claydon of religious communities, firstly of men, and then a convent of sisters. We may well imagine the effect on a Suffolk village of Father Ignatius, the exotic monk who led the first community here, moving it to Norwich and then to Wales, where it still survives as a Catholic community on the island of Caldy.
What enraged popular opinion, though, was the convent. Father Drury was accused of keeping a harem, an outrageously offensive slur in the mid-19th century. On one occasion, a local mob broke into the convent and 'rescued' a nun; she was conveyed to a lunatic asylum by order of her father, and incarcerated there until his death. Anti-catholic slogans were painted on Drury's rectory, and he built a nine foot wall around it to protect it.
But Claydon is a big village, and we may presume that he found as many enthusiasts as enemies there. Supplemented by adherents from a wide area, his Anglo-catholic services at Claydon were very popular, despite constant interference from the Bishop of Norwich, who on one occasion threatened him with suspension for saying services in an unlicensed preaching house - that is to say, he celebrated communion in the convent. He was also accused of calling communion 'Mass'.
This all seems very amusing today, but we need to remember that burning passions were inflamed; popular opinion, and at times the Law, were not on the side of George Drury.
If Claydon was a busy church, then Akenham was quite the opposite. As I say, Claydon was, and is, a large village; now combined with Barham, it is virtually a small town.
But Akenham, in the 19th century, could muster barely 70 souls (and a fraction that number today). More than this, virtually all the inhabitants were non-conformists, largely because the two major landowners, Mr Gooding of Akenham Hall and Mr Smith of Rise Hall, beside the church, were both members of Tacket Street Congregational Church in Ipswich. Each Sunday, they would load up their carts, and take their employees off to chapel. Akenham sexton Henry Waterman could rightly claim in 1878 that he was the only Anglican churchman left in the village.
Then, as now, it was left to the people of the parish to elect a churchwarden; unsurprisingly, it was usually a local landowner, and the people here elected Mr Smith of Rise Hall, despite the fact that he wasn't an Anglican. Equally unsurprisingly, Father Drury refused to recognise the appointment (although it was recognised by the Bishop of Norwich) and also refused to allow Smith to hold the keys to Akenham church.
Every Sunday, Father Drury set off across the fields to hold a service at Akenham church. It is still possible to walk this journey between the two churches along a bridleway - it is less than a mile. He would wait by the gate; if anyone turned up, he would unlock the church, go in with them, and a service would be held. Otherwise, he turned back across the fields to his rectory at Claydon. Estimates varied as to how often there was a service here; Drury guessed once or twice a month, but locals claimed no more than four times a year.
It is important to remember that, in Canon Law, Drury was not allowed to hold a service without a congregation. The Sexton did not count. Ironically, this legislation was often used against Anglo-catholics like Drury, to stop them saying private Masses.
It was, and is, the responsibility of the churchwarden to ensure the upkeep of the church. But, since Drury refused to recognise Smith as warden, and denied him access, the inside of Akenham church was in a dreadful state - dirt, decay and dead birds. This state of affairs suited both parties; from Drury's point of view, it reinforced the impression that there was no warden. From Smith's point of view, it showed the results of Drury's stubbornness and High Church fundamentalism.
On top of all this, a further pointed inflamed Akenham feeling against Drury. Although Claydon was by ten times or more the larger parish, Drury received a stipend of just £240 a year for his vicarship there. By contrast, he received £266 a year for fulfilling the same role at Akenham. This anomaly was not unusual in the 19th century, and was the responsibility of the patron who presented to the living. In the case of Claydon and Akenham, this was the Drury family themselves.
The whole thing, then, was a powderkeg waiting to explode. The fuse was lit in a quite unexpected manner.
Shortly before 5pm on Friday 23rd August 1878, Drury set off along the bridleway towards Akenham church to bury a two year old boy, Joseph Ramsay, son of an employee of the non-conformist Mr Gooding of Akenham Hall. Drury had been told during the week that the boy's parents were Baptists, and he was therefore unbaptised (Baptists practicing adult baptism).
The only difference this would make to Drury would be that, in Canon Law, he was not allowed to read the Book of Common Prayer burial service over the coffin of an unbaptised person. It is important to note that it would actually be an offence for Drury to read the service even if he had wanted to; moreover, he was already in a lot of trouble with his Bishop. However, Drury would still expect to accompany the coffin from church gate to burial site, and be present at the interment.
Unbaptised infants were traditionally buried on the north side of the churchyard. This tradition was maintained here by Henry Waterman, the sexton, who seems to have taken a dark pleasure in informing the Ramseys of this arrangement, allegedly telling them that their son would be buried 'like a dog'. In most churchyards, the north side of the church is not as severely cut off as it is here. However, contrary to popular belief, this was not unconsecrated ground. That many people believed the ground to be unconsecrated emerged at the later trial.
What happened when Drury arrived at the church is unclear, and depends on whose evidence you read. What all agree on, however, is that the little coffin arrived accompanied by an Ipswich Congregationalist minister, the Reverend Wickham Tozer of St Nicholas Street Chapel. Also present were the two main landowners of the parish, Mr Smith and Mr Gooding, and a crowd of 20 or 30 farmhands, mostly members of one or other of the Ipswich non-conformist chapels.
Rev. Tozer tried to hold a service at the edge of the field across the track from the churchyard gate (a field owned by Mr Smith of Rise Hall). Drury approached the group. He claimed that this was to take charge of the coffin and accompany it to the grave. They claimed that he attempted to break up the service. Whatever, both sides agreed that firm words were spoken, the Rev. Tozer waving his fist in Father Drury's face. Both sides agreed that Drury gestured towards the coffin with his umbrella, and that the parents implored Rev. Tozer to ignore Father Drury. Both sides agree that Drury eventually stormed off without burying poor Joseph Ramsey, unwisely locking the churchyard gate before he left.
The others then conveyed the coffin through the hedge and buried it, but made it clear that they had not held any form of service in the churchyard. For the Canon Law that prevented Drury reading the burial service over an unbaptised infant contained another, even harsher clause. This was that it was an offence in the eyes of the law for a clergyman from another denomination to read a burial service of any kind in a Church of England parish churchyard. Now, given that 95% of burials at this time (and almost all outside the great cities) took place in CofE graveyards, this was an increasingly harsh piece of legislation. At that time, there was a great lobbying of parliament for a change in the law; after all, if an Englishman abroad could be buried in a Catholic or Orthodox graveyard with the service of the Church of England, why could not a Catholic, Orthodox or non-conformist corpse receive the rites of its own tradition in this country? A Burials Reform Bill was talked up in all parts of the land, as a way of putting right this injustice.
Some non-conformist chapels had their own burial grounds (as at Tacket Street, for instance), but there was none in Akenham; none in Claydon, where there wasn't even a non-conformist minister. In normal circumstances, the free church dead would receive a service in their own chapel before being conveyed to the grave. In a place like Akenham, where there was no chapel, that service might take place at a cottage. But the service in the field over the corpse of Joseph Ramsey was quite unprecedented. Although there was no law against it, it was a wholly unusual situation - as unusual, in fact, as such a great crowd being at the funeral of an infant from a working class family.
One presumes that Drury went back to his comfortable rectory, seethed for a while, and then forgot about what had happened. However, on the Monday Morning, he received a nasty surprise. A detailed account of the incident appeared in the East Anglian Daily Times, the local newspaper that had the largest circulation. This seemed to have been written by a witness. Had one of the crowd been a reporter? How did he come to be there?
The report accused Drury, amongst much else, of trying to prevent a Christian burial, and of saying in response to Tozer's entreaties that "religious convictions... and feelings have nothing to do with it - your proceedings are altogether wrong and I must teach my parishioners that I cannot sanction them". It accused him of saying that the child was not a Christian, and of storming off, locking the gate, when Tozer refused to cut short his service. Tozer had told Drury to go to Heaven, the report continued, but instead he had gone to Claydon, which "as far as the rectory and adjoining nunnery are concerned, is a very different place". It concluded with the editorial comment: "We leave the facts to tell their own tale, reminding our readers that this staunch upholder of ecclesiastical law is already under admonition from his own bishop for lawless proceedings in his own church." Late 19th century readers would have immediately understood this to mean that Drury was guilty of High Church practices.
This report brought down an avalanche of brickbats upon Drury's head. Letters poured into the newspapers, both locally and nationally. He was accused of being an unfeeling monster, the embodiment of unfair and unjust laws. It was not long before lurid accounts were being published of his liturgical practices and lifestyle, as well as innuendo about the convent, and his run-ins with the law.
Strangely, it soon emerged that the original report had been written by none other than the Reverend Wickham Tozer himself. Several of the letters attacking Drury and increasing the ferment had been written by people directly involved in the case. For instance, letters signed 'A Protestant Churchwarden' had come from Mr Smith of Rise Hall.
The report seemed carefully calculated to provoke some sort of response from Drury. Whatever, Frederick Wilson, the editor of the East Anglian Daily Times, seems to have thought legal action likely. Wilson wrote letters to several people concerned with burial law reform, suggesting that they might finance his costs in any court case. "Such an action would do more to further the burials bill than any step I can imagine", he wrote to Tozer. "I trust the friends of religious liberty, now so thick around you, will come forward to help us. I want to form a guarantee fund of £500 to defend this action, and if he brings it, to attack him simultaneously under the Public Worship Act." This was the legislation that prevented Anglo-catholic priests from introducing ritual into their churches, on penalty of imprisonment. "If there is any bottom in this talk about the Burials Bill, there should be no difficulty in getting plenty of money to fight such a cause."
Well, Drury had the courage to sue, and sue successfully, Frederick Wilson for libel. (In English law, it is the publisher rather than the author of a piece who is liable).
However, the jury only awarded Drury damages of 40 shillings plus costs, thus presenting a moral victory to Wilson, and, by extension, to Reverend Tozer, Smith and Gooding. And during the trial, a number of curious facts emerged. Firstly, Tozer was not the Ramseys' minister. In point of fact, he had never met them before. He had been asked to conduct the 'impromptu' service by Smith and Gooding, who had known that Tozer was an experienced journalist. Furthermore, Smith and Gooding were both related to the editor of the Christian World magazine, which would quickly pick up the story as though from an authoritative source, and gleefully run with it.
Tozer would surely have thought it odd when he arrived to find a group of 20 to 30 farmworkers present, as well as the two leading landowners of the parish. An infant burial, after all, was a wearily common occurence. Tozer himself stated that he had buried ten of his own children. But it also emerged that the two landowners, Smith and Gooding, had asked Tozer to compile the written account of the proceedings, a request with which he complied. He had incorporated their contributions, and allowed them to correct the final draft.
Was this a conspiracy, intended to discredit Drury's High Church practices? Or was it simply hoped to provoke a change in the law? Popular opinion remained against Drury. A national fund was set up to pay Wilson's costs, raising over £1000 (almost a quarter of a million in today's money). A small amount of this went to provide a proper headstone for the little boy.
Drury soldiered on at Claydon until his death in 1895. In the 1970s, the writer Ronald Fletcher discovered a scrapbook of press-cuttings about the incident in a Southwold junkshop, and put together an excellent account of the scandal in his book The Akenham Burial Case. He also wrote about it in In A Country Churchyard. His books show that the incident led directly to the passing of the Burial Law Reform Act of 1880. There's no question that this popular change in the law was bought at the expense of George Drury's reputation. As recently as 1980, the Redundant Churches Fund guide to Akenham church stated that 'this churchyard was the site of a famous incident in which the rector, George Drury, refused to allow the burial of a child of non-conformist parents'. Mortlock's guide also repeats this charge; but Drury was not at the time accused by Tozer of this, and certainly strongly refuted any suggestion at the trial that he might have considered such a course of action. Perhaps the confusion arises from a misreading of Fletcher's books, since I have not found it in any guide in the intervening years.
And so, we stand outside the gate, at the very spot where Joseph Ramsey's coffin rested. We open the gate, renewed since Drury, in his anger, locked it against them; but the gateposts are the very same ones.
From the east end of the aisle, two modern steel joists protrude, a reminder of another unhappy day in the life of this church. In 1940, a German bomber, returning from a foray over a Midlands city, dumped the rest of its load here before the hazardous crossing of the North Sea.
A mine hit St Mary directly, wrecking the building. It remained derelict until the 1960s, when the energy and enthusiasm of the local people, and the resources of the Friends of Friendless Churches, rescued the little building and restored to use, as part of the benefice of Whitton and Thurleston. In 1976, the Anglican Diocese declared it redundant; not, perhaps, unreasonably. It was vested in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund, now the Churches Conservation Trust.
The Tower is rather a grim one, really, but the whole thing together is so pretty that one can forgive this. The interior is bare in the CCT manner, and neater than in Drury's day. He probably designed and made the box pews with his own hands.
We walk round to the north side. A disconcerting corrugated iron fence separates the churchyard from a neighbouring farm. In the north nave wall, a narrow Norman slit window is beside a fine Decorated one.
Here, there is just one gravestone, of the dozen or so that were here in the 1870s. It is Joseph Ramsey's, of course; the name is still decipherable. In 1978, Ronald Fletcher found this stone leaning against the wall; so it has been rest since then, perhaps not quite in its original place. A single pathetic plastic tulip sits in a little pot beside it. It is very moving.
I stood outside the gate, where this whole thing began, looking out towards the Whitton estate.
The tower block of Thurleston High School dominates the horizon; this school, which serves the estate, is named after the vanished village of Thurleston, which was in the valley below.
The ruined church of Thurleston was demolished in the 1860s to provide materials for the rebuilding of Whitton church. It is said that Drury used some of the masonry to construct a grotto in Claydon rectory garden.
Electricity pylons criss-cross all the land round here. If Joseph Ramsey had lived, he might have seen them go up when he was in his eighties. I thought about how all of this happened more than a century ago, but that a century was not a very long time. When you are visiting, talking and writing about medieval churches, a century is a very short time indeed.
The 2018 Water Conservation Expo and Vendor Fair attracted more than 80 attendees on March 2 at SFWMD headquarters in West Palm Beach. The focus of this year's event was on advancements and trends in water conservation for public utilities.
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Photo Credit: Dolores Reed, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Caption: Male Dama gazelle calf born Feb. 18, 2014.
Animal care staff at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. are celebrating the birth of three male dama gazelles. The calves were born Feb. 18, Feb. 20 and Feb. 25. At their 24-hour neonatal exam, the first calf weighed 11 pounds and the second and third calves weighed 12 pounds each.
With less than 500 left in the wild, dama gazelles are the rarest of all gazelles and are listed as critically endangered. Their population used to range widely across northern Africa, but is now limited to Chad, Mali and Niger. SCBI conducts veterinary and reproductive research in order to maintain animal populations of endangered species.
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More than 110 conservation-conscious irrigation professionals attended the 2017 Water Conservation Expo and Vendor Fair on Feb. 24 at SFWMD headquarters in West Palm Beach. The focus of this year's event was reducing water use in the irrigation, landscape and nursery industries.
Patron going for a swim
We visited the Wildlife Conservation Center (AWCC) in Girdwood, Alaska. The center takes orphaned and injured animals so they can be treated and rehabilitated. Animals with severe injuries remain at the center for the rest of their life. If an abandoned animal is very young it will not be released back into the wild. Without its Mother to guide and teach it how to survive, death will surly be the result of its release. These animals are kept at the reserve as full time residents or transferred to another facility.
The story of Joe Boxer and Patron:
In the town of Willow, Alaska a bear killed a moose calf in a back yard. The bear was on the verge of attacking the homeowner’s dog, so he killed the bear to defend himself and his dog. In Alaska it is legal to kill a bear in defense of life or property. After he shot the bear he saw her two cubs up in a tree.
He called the area wildlife biologist to notify him of the situation. The biologist climbed to the top of the birch tree to rescue the cubs. He grabbed the smaller male cub by the leg and lowered him down to the ground. The second cub was more of a challenge. She was larger and much more aggressive. He had to sedate her before bringing her down out of the tree. The cubs were taken to AWCC for care and have remained there since their rescue. Without their mother to teach them to hunt and care for themselves, they would not survive the harsh wilderness of Alaska.
Northern Harrier at B.K. Leach Memorial Conservation Area located in Lincoln County, Missouri. Taken December 5, 2025.
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Maryland Conservation Steward Kimberly Raikes is hosting a “Careers in Conservation” farmer learning event at the Whitelock Community Farm in Baltimore, focused on showcasing opportunities for both her urban farming friends but especially college age students, July 11, 2022.
(USDA/FPAC photo by Preston Keres)
The waterfowl thunderstorm map quantifies the number of waterfowl pairs with access to upland parcels across the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region (dotted line) and is used to identify areas for conservation. The map was given its name because of its resemblance to a radar image of a thunderstorm weather system crossing the region.
Graphic Credit: Region 6 Habitat and Population Evaluation Team
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) Habitat and Population Evaluation Teams (HAPET) recently completed analysis of the 25th year of Four-Square-Mile Survey data collected in the Prairie Pothole Region. Begun in 1987 by researchers at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, the Four-Square-Mile Survey was originally developed to assess waterfowl use of Service and private lands. The HAPET offices, which have conducted the survey since 1990, presently sample 704 survey plots annually. Each plot covers four square miles, which is the home range of a breeding female mallard. Waterfowl are surveyed on 5,933 wetlands, and water levels are assessed on 70,021 wetlands with a total area of 194,106 acres. Data from this survey are used to target easement acquisition, evaluate effects of conservation programs, inform Farm Bill programs, monitor landscape change, assess wetland dynamics, guide evaluation of the effects of wind energy development on waterfowl, and provide baseline data used in development of spatially explicit models for waterfowl and non-game birds. The Four-Square-Mile Survey and its products were models for the concept of Strategic Habitat Conservation, which was recently adopted by the Service.
One of the most recognizable products developed from Four-Square-Mile Survey data is the waterfowl breeding pair accessibility map, also known as the Thunderstorm Map. This decision-support tool provides a spatially-explicit, scientific foundation for targeting millions of conservation dollars annually by the Service and partners for easement acquisition, Partners for Fish and Wildlife private land projects, and other conservation actions for breeding waterfowl.
Another major benefit provided by the Four-Square-Mile Survey is the HAPET offices’ extensive records of annual water conditions for 70,000 wetlands, which include the second driest drought of the 20th century and the wettest period in the past 130, possibly 500, years. These data are being incorporated into a variety of projects related to climate change in the Prairie Pothole Region, including determination of mechanisms influencing wetland water levels, improvement of wetland monitoring programs, and modeling of response to climate change by wetland-dependent birds.
Photo Credit: Adam Mason, Smithsonian's National Zoo
On exhibit for the first time in the Washington, D.C. region, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo presents “Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea” from May 27 through Sept. 5. Made completely of plastic debris collected from beaches, the colorful and dramatic sculptures of marine animals represent the more than 315 billion pounds of plastic in oceans today and underscore the need for wildlife conservation. Admission to the Zoo and this exhibit is free.
Made possible with the support of Friends of the National Zoo, visitors are invited to get up close to view the sculptures, which range from a 12-foot-long shark and 16-foot-long parrot fish to an 8-foot-wide octopus and a 20-foot-long coral reef. Seventeen sculptures of marine life will be installed along the Zoo’s Olmsted Walk, in the Visitor’s Center and at the Amazonia exhibit. Visitors can see marine animals affected by waste—including sea lions, brown pelicans and corals—on view at the Zoo’s American Trail and Amazonia Science Gallery, respectively.
“We’re excited to bring conservation science and art together to connect our visitors to the impact of trash on ocean health,” said Dennis Kelly, Zoo director. “The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is committed to saving marine species and is a pioneer in coral-reef research and conservation. While intricate and captivating, these sculptures are a powerful reminder of our personal role and responsibility in preserving global biodiversity on land and in the sea.”
The ocean produces more than 50 percent of the world’s oxygen, and coral reefs nurture more than a quarter of all marine life. Using procedures similar to those used in human sperm banks, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) scientist Mary Hagedorn and her team are global leaders in conserving coral reefs and the ecosystems that they build. Increased greenhouse gases are warming and acidifying oceans across the planet, causing a widespread coral-reef crisis. By pioneering coral cryo-conservation and collecting and storing coral sperm from threatened reefs to produce new colonies in the lab for captive-bred and wild-colony conservation, SCBI is building a potential lifeline for species under threat from climate change, pollution and overfishing. Scientists at the Smithsonian are helping ensure a future for coral reefs and the species that count on them for survival as ocean environments change.
“The National Zoo—America’s zoo—has given us a global platform to present our art to educate a world audience about how plastic pollution is posing a dangerous and perhaps catastrophic threat to the world’s oceans and sea life,” said Angela Haseltine Pozzi, lead artist and Washed Ashore executive director.
Under the leadership of Pozzi, Washed Ashore Project volunteers clean beaches and process the debris into art supplies. To date, thousands of volunteers have processed an estimated 18 tons of garbage collected from more than 300 miles of coastline to create 68 sculptures. As lead artist, Pozzi orchestrates the construction of these towering, striking sculptures of marine life. Each sculpture was created using hundreds of individual pieces, from flip-flops and bottle caps to nylon rope, Styrofoam and lighters.
Based in Bandon, Ore., the Washed Ashore Project is a non-profit dedicated to educating and creating awareness about marine debris and plastic pollution through art. “Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea” is a traveling exhibit that has been featured at different locations throughout the country.
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Washed Ashore’s “Turtle Ocean” / On view beginning June 8
Sant Ocean Hall / Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
In addition to the 17 sculptures on view at the National Zoo, visitors can see “Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea’s” “Turtle Ocean” in the National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall. Created by Washed Ashore director Angela Haseltine Pozzi, “Turtle Ocean” depicts an entangled Hawksbill turtle swimming in an environment of water-bottle sea jellies and beached flip-flop anemones along with marine-debris seaweed and coral made of old buoys, crates and buckets. Hawksbill sea turtles face many threats, including mistakenly ingesting marine trash for food. All six species of sea turtles found in U.S. waters are threatened or endangered. The Sant Ocean Hall is the Museum’s largest exhibit, providing visitors with a unique introduction to the majesty of the ocean. The hall’s combination of 674 marine specimens and models, high-definition video and the newest technology allows visitors to explore the ocean’s past, present and future. For World Oceans Day programming at the Sant Ocean Hall, visit the Museum’s website. For more ocean information, visit ocean.si.edu.
World Oceans Day Celebration
June 11; 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.; National Zoo
It is not just marine animals who depend upon the ocean for survival. Visitors can celebrate World Oceans Day at the Zoo with educational activities, animal demonstrations and crafts.
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Civilian Conservation Corp enrollee Leslie Anderson using a chisel to cut out a half notch on a log, to be used on the new La Croix Guard Station. Superior National Forest, Minnesota. (Forest Service photo by Leland J. Prater)
At the Zoological Wildlife Conservation Center and Sloth Captive Husbandry Research Center in Rainier, OR.
first day of water conservation....catching the surplus shower water with a bucket to water the garden....
it's nice and sunny...maybe too sunny..it to hasn't rained in weeks!
Communicate is a conference for people working in communicating conservation. Check out more of Lukes work here: www.caricaturesbylukewarm.co.uk/cartoons-conference-cartoons
OVERALL VIEW OF THE DOE REFCOM PLANT.
THIS FACILITY IS AN EFFORT TO PROVE THE CONCEPT OF THE ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF A MIXTURE OF SOLID WASTE AND SEWAGE SLUDGE, TO DEVELOP DESIGN PARAMETERS,TO ESTABLISH ECONOMICS,AND TO DEVELOP DATA ON THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF GAS PRODUCED. URBAN WASTE IS SHREDDED AND SEPARATED INTO LIGHT AND HEAVY FRACTIONS. THE LIGHT FRACTION IS COMBINED WITH UP TO 10 PERCENT SEWAGE SLUDGE AND DIGESTED. WHEN OPERATING AT FULL CAPACITY, THE FACILITY IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE ALMOST 300 MILLION CUBIC FEET OF METHANE PER YEAR. THE METHANE PRODUCED MAY BE USED AS FUEL FOR POWER GENERATION IN THE LOCALITY OR CLEANED FOR INJECTION INTO NATURAL GAS LINES. THE VIEW SHOWS THE CLASSIFICATION BUILDING (LEFT), ANAEROBIC DIGESTOR TANKS AND TOWER (RIGHT), SLUDGE TRAILER (CENTER).
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Beautiful wildflowers, weeds and trees on the shores of Duffins creek in Greenwood conservation area , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , August 31. 2021
Beautiful roots in the forest
Greenwood conservation area
Canada
August 2021
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Ontario
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Canada
Pickering
Martin’s photographs
Discovery Bay
Trees
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March 2020
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Squires Beach
Duffins Creek
Duffins Marsh
Waterfront Trail
Rotary Park
Lake Ontario
Rod iron fence
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Bridge
Duffins Creek
Twilight
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Fallen tree
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Beach
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Water conservation is important in California, and using drips in the landscape is a good way to do it.
122 Pictures in 2022 - #18. Conservation
This is part of a photo-collage of orangutan nests in SE Asian rain forests taken by cameras on board Conservation Drones. Please visit www.ConservationDrones.org for more information.
April 2021 Photo contest runner up photo by Jessica Howell. Northern Plains Conservation Specialist American Bird Conservancy working in partnership with World Wildlife Fund, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks
Short-eared Owl photo taken on a spring evening in Harding County, South Dakota. This one was resting before the evening hunt. I became familiar with a couple of pairs and would often park and watch their smooth and silent flights during the golden hour.