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Angela (54, Lehrerin): Meine größte Angst ist, dass wir zu spät sind, noch etwas zu retten. Meine größte Hoffnung liegt auf diesen unglaublichen jungen Leuten, die gerade so viel machen, mehr als jede Generation vorher. Aktiv bei Extinction Rebellion, Berlin, 09.07.22
The October rebellion Day 2. Barefoot among the tents at Charing Cross. Charles 1 urged to tell the truth.
เก้าปีหลังจากการติดเชื้อกลายเป็นที่สุดของมนุษย์เป็นสิ่งมีชีวิตที่บ้าคลั่ง แพทริค แจ็ค และ ลู เป็นเด็กผู้หญิงอายุเก้าปี อยู่รอดในสันติภาพและความสงบที่ไม่รู้ลืมในหิมะปกคลุมเมืองสามัคคี แต่เรารู้สึกว่าบางอย่างที่น่ากลัวเกิดขึ้นกับแพทริค และ แจ็ค เพราะเกลียดลึกช่วยให้พวกเขาออกจากกัน เมื่อติดเชื้ออีก ...
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Extinction Rebellion climate protesters block Paris at Place du Châtelet @extinctionrebellionfrance #urgenceclimatique
#urgenceecologique
#suitedumonde
#occupationparis
#extinctionrebellionfrance
#extinctionrebellion
#suitedumonde
#internationalrebellion
#occupationparis
#chatelet
Genuine concerns are being championed by the young. It is to their credit that they care. We visited from Hertfordshire via public transport and that’s a start from us.
Located at a height of over 4000 metres and along the famous Karakoram Highway (KKH) and near the Kunjrab Pass, Khunjrab National Park is Pakistan's third largest National Park. The park is adjacent to Taxkorgan Natural Reserve in China. This park was established in 1975 on the recommendation of renowned wildlife biologist Dr. George Schaller, since the population of Marco Polo Sheep was declining at an alarming rate. In fact the construction of the Karakoram Highway provided an easy access to the hunters to the wildlife in the area. The Marco Polo Sheep’s trophy sells for as much as $60,000 and this rare animal was hunted to near extinction. Also, the building of the highway has disturbed the wildlife in the area and many animals have migrated across the border to China and Afghanistan.
Khunjerab National Park consists of three different valleys: Khunjerab (through which the Karakoram Highway passes), Ghujerab and the remote Shimshal valley. As local communities had traditionally used the entire area for grazing domestic livestock in summer, Dr. Schaller recommended a 12 kilometre portion of the park to be closed for grazing in order to provide protection to Marco Polo sheep against disturbance and food competition. This portion of the park was declared the core zone of the park. However, imposing a ban on grazing of livestock without compensation or concessions to grazing for the local communities created serious conflicts between the park management and the local people.
Now with the emergence of this park, the number of this species is very slowly increasing. Marco Polo Sheep is recognized by the very long outward curving horns, developed in the mature males. An aged ram is is very impressive and majestic, mainly because of massive spiraling horns which can span a man's outstretched arms and almost twice the height and size of most other wild or domestic sheep. The Marco Polo sheep is an inhabitant of very high mountains subject to severely cold winds and climatic conditions throughout the year. Currently, its population is confined to northwestern part of Hunza district along the Chinese border. Here, between spring and autumn, it occupies two separate valleys in the northwest section of Khunjrab National Park, and also inhabits the Kilik-Mintaka border area, just west of the National Park. Marco Polo sheep is probably the most endangered of Pakistan's wild sheep and goats, and unless action is taken immediately they will probably become extinct. Kilik/Mintaka Game Reserve along the border with China, east of the KKH and the Khunjerab National Park has been specially created to provide 65,000 hectares for preservation of Marco Polo sheep habitat.
The the total remaining population of Snow Leopard is estimated around 7,000-10,000 worldwide, of which around 300 are found in Pakistan. Anyone who can venture up to Nagar Valley, 65 kilometres north of Gilgit, one has a fair chance of siting the big cat, preferably at dawn or dusk. The Baltistan Wildlife Sanctuary covering 415 square kilometres in Baltistan, contiguous with the Astor Wildlife Sanctuary to its south and east and south of the Indus River, is basically established to protect the Snow Leopard besides Brown Bear, Lynx, Tibetan wolf, Tibetan fox, Markhor, Blue sheep and Asiatic ibex. Recently, an animal husbandry program in Chitral has been established which combines science to provide a new approach to save snow leopards. Snow Leopard is also found in Khunjrab National Park
Other wild life that is found in the park include the Himalayan Ibex, Brown Bear, Tibetan Red Fox, Tibetan Wolf, Blue Sheep, Tibetan Wild Donkey, Ermine, Alpine Weasel, Stone Martin, Golden Marmot, Large-eared Pika, Cape Hare and many other small mammals. Most of these animals are considered to be in the threatened species category.
Beside the mammals, a wide variety of birds is also found in the park area, which include Golden Eagle, Lammegier, Himalayan Griffon and Eurasian Black Vultures, Marsh Harrier, Eurasian Sparrow Hawk, Eurasian and Lesser Kestrel, Saker and Peregrin Falcon, Himalayan Snow Cock, Snow Partridge, Grey Heron, Hill and Snow Pigeon, Northern Eagle Owl, Eurasian Cuckoo, Common Swallow, Magpie, Alpine Cough and Raven.
With the establishment of the park and laying down strict rules for the locals as well as the hunters, visitors can view plenty of wildlife from the main KKH. Ibex can easily be seen grazing on distant ridges, Golden Marmots play alongside the road and sometimes even a brown bear can be spotted. A four-day trek to the Karchanai Nullah rewards visitors with a close-up view of a herd of Marco Polo sheep. According to estimates supplied by members of the KVO, there are now around 1000 Ibex, 300 Blue Sheep, 60 Marco Polo Sheep, and a handful of brown bears and Snow Leopards (which have been spotted) living in the park. Since these animals tend to migrate across the border, these numbers are not accurate.
The Khunjerab National Park has the potential to develop into one of the world’s foremost national parks. According to WWF officials, a plan is now afoot to turn it into an ‘International Peace Park’ with conserved areas on both sides of the border. Negotiations with the Chinese are underway. If this plan can be realized, it would mean one ecological park with open boundaries for the wildlife – a truly spectacular habitat on top of the world.
Source: www.pakistanpaedia.com/parks/khunjrab/national_parks_of_p...
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“The breezes blow in perfect harmony. They are neither hot nor cold. They are at the same time calm and fresh, sweet and soft. They are neither fast nor slow. When they blow on the nets made of many kinds of jewels, the trees emit the innumerable sounds of the subtle and sublime Dharma and spread myriad sweet and fine perfumes. Those who hear these sounds spontaneously cease to raise the dust of tribulation and impurity. When the breezes touch their bodies they all attain a bliss comparable to that accompanying a monk’s attainment of the samadhi of extinction.
“Moreover, when they blow, these breezes scatter flowers all over, filling this buddha-field. These flowers fall in patterns according to their colors, without ever being mixed up. They have delicate hues and a wonderful fragrance. When one steps on these petals the feet sink four inches. When one lifts the foot, the petals return to their original shape and position. When these flowers stop falling, the ground suddenly opens up, and they disappear as if by magic. They remain pure and do not decay, because, at a given time, the breezes blow again and scatter the flowers. And the same process occurs six times a day.
“Moreover, many jewel lotuses fill this world system. Each jewel blossom has a hundred thousand million peals. The radiant light emanating from their petals is of countless different colors. Blue colored flowers give out a blue light. White colored flowers give out a white light. Others have deeper colors and light, and some are of yellow, red, and purple color and light. But the splendor if each of these lights surpasses the radiance of the sun and the moon. From every flower issue thirty-six hundred thousand million rays of light. From each one of these rays issue thirty-six hundred thousand million buddhas…”
from the Sukhāvatīvyūhaḥ Sūtra
“The earth has been there for a long time. She is mother to all of us. She knows everything. The Buddha asked the earth to be his witness by touching her with his hand when he had some doubt and fear before his awakening. The earth appeared to him as a beautiful mother. In her arms she carried flowers and fruit, birds and butterflies, and many different animals, and offered them to the Buddha. The Buddha’s doubts and fears instantly disappeared. Whenever you feel unhappy, come to the earth and ask for her help. Touch her deeply, the way the Buddha did. Suddenly, you too will see the earth with all her flowers and fruit, trees and birds, animals and all the living beings that she has produced. All these things she offers to you. You have more opportunities to be happy than you ever thought. The earth shows her love to you and her patience. The earth is very patient. She sees you suffer, she helps you, and she protects you. When we die, she takes us back into her arms.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
"Our planet is our house, and we must keep it in order and take care of it if we are genuinely concerned about happiness for ourselves, our children, our friends and other sentient beings who share this great house with us."
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
“...turn to Conceptual Photography through Zen camera of the mind. Or take up gardening––which is surely the most perfect practice of Zen outside of non-gardening.”
-photographer Edward Putzar
།ས་གཞི་སྤོས་ཀྱིས་བྱུགས་ཤིང་མེ་ཏོག་བཀྲམ།
།རི་རབ་གླིང་བཞི་ཉི་ཟླས་བརྒྱན་པ་འདི།
།སངས་རྒྱས་ཞིང་དུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི།
།འགྲོ་ཀུན་རྣམ་དག་ཞིང་ལ་སྤྱོད་པར་ཤོག།།
།ཨི་དཾ་གུ་རུ་རཏྣ་མཎྜལ་ཀཾ་ནི་རྱཱ་ཏ་ཡཱ་མི།
Every physical atom, in its incessant movements produces a sound which is a song, so that if we had the power of spiritual hearing (genuine clairaudience), we would be able to hear this unimaginably grand symphony of sounds. In such a state we would hear the grass growing and the opening of a flower would itself be a marvelous natural orchestral performance. When you are lost or caught up in an emotional storm or contracted in self-centeredness or plagued by obsessive thoughts, notice what happens when you step outside or go for a walk and pay attention to the sky, the air, the light, the movement of wind, the feel of grass under your feet. Tread softly for we tread on something subtle, ancient, and slow.
Reawakening our connection with nature spirits helps us to live more harmoniously and consciously. We become kinder to the planet because we remember that we’re part of the whole.
“In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room….
This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies, and a willow-tree growing in the middle.
`O Tiger-lily,’ said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, `I wish you could talk!’
`We can talk,’ said the Tiger-lily: `when there’s anybody worth talking to.”
Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice — almost in a whisper. `And can all the flowers talk?’
`As well as all can,’ said the Tiger-lily. `And a great deal louder.’
`It isn’t manners for us to begin, you know,’ said the Rose, `and I really was wondering when you’d speak! Said I to myself, “Her face has got some sense in it, thought it’s not a clever one!” Still, you’re the right colour, and that goes a long way.’
`I don’t care about the colour,’ the Tiger-lily remarked. `If only her petals curled up a little more, she’d be all right.’”
William Blake wrote of seeing a world in a grain of sand, holding “Infinity in the palm of your hand.” It speaks to me of infinite life both on Earth, and in earth, the ceaseless abundance within a speck of soil, the infinity of life, from seed to bud to flower to seed, wheeling on through aeons. It suggests the unbreakable cycle, the unending and unending nature of life, creating infinity from within itself.
“I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms. You, gods, since you are the ones who alter these, and all other things, inspire my attempt, and spin out a continuous thread of words, from the world's first origins to my own time.”- Ovid, Metamorphoses Book I
“The mysteries of the Great and the Little World are distinguished only by the form in which they manifest themselves; for they are only one thing, one being. “
- Paracelsus
“If someone has an empty brain—and because of this is vexed by insanity, and is delirious—take the whole grains of wheat and cook them in water. Place these cooked grains around his whole head, tying a cloth over them. His brain may be reinvigorated by their vital fluid, and he may recover his health. Do this until he returns to his right mind.”
- Hildegard of Bingen, Physica
“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” - Confucius
A "cover" on the series "Resident Evil"
All fictional characters and monsters have their copyright Capcom Co., Ltd. and were created by Shinji Mikami.
This is a recreation for a personal non-profit project.
Un "cover" sobre la serie "Resident Evil"
Todos los personajes ficticios y monstruos tienen su copyright en Capcom Co., Ltd. y fueron creados por Shinji Mikami.
Esta es una recreación para un proyecto personal sin ánimo de lucro.
Sugerencia musical:
Marilyn Manson - resident Evil
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Why can't we co-exist with animals on this planet? Tigers are on the brink of extinction. There are only between 5,000 and 7,400 tigers left in the wild and the number keeps shrinking. Of the 8 species of tigers, only 5 are still in existence today. Once they are gone, they will be gone forever. What would life be like if we couldn't show our children and our grandchildren the beauty of these animals? It would be a great tragedy.
I am a sucker for animals. This little tiger lives in Sydney Zoo and he was soooo beautiful, i couldn't not take pictures. It didn't quite turn out how i intended but i might i kind of like it anyway.
The new encampment on Waterloo Millenium Green. Neatly tucked away and not as visible as the Marble Arch installation earlier in the year. And the dialogue continues.
DAY 1 - Big day of road-blocking to underline the seriousness of climate change, and the need for action. Climate emergency at Marble Arch
Day 3 and the roadblocks are in place still. Some gentle dancing may occur with stylish breathing mask.
Savage Neck Dunes Natural Area Preserve is a 298-acre protected area located in Northampton County on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The preserve features some of the highest sand dunes on the Eastern Shore, rising over 50 feet above the Chesapeake Bay. It encompasses a mile of Chesapeake Bay shoreline, maritime forests, and a freshwater pond.
The preserve is home to diverse habitats, including beach, dune, and maritime forest communities. It provides critical habitat for migratory songbirds and supports the largest population of the federally protected northeastern beach tiger beetle.
Visitors can explore three marked hiking trails with interpretive signage, offering opportunities to observe various wildlife species. The trails lead through the dunes and maritime forests, eventually reaching the Chesapeake Bay shoreline. The shoreline is best accessed during low tide, so it’s advisable to check tidal conditions before your visit.
The preserve is open daily to the public, but it lacks restroom facilities, trash receptacles, access to drinking water, or on-site staff. The parking lot is small, accommodating only eight vehicles. If the lot is full upon arrival, visitors are encouraged to return later and avoid parking illegally on adjacent private property or along the access road.
To reach the preserve from the north end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, follow US 13 north. Take Business Route 13 into Eastville, then turn left onto Savage Neck Drive (VA 634). Follow Savage Neck Drive for about 2 miles, bear left to stay on Savage Neck Drive, and continue for another 1.5 miles. The preserve’s parking area will be on the right.
For more information, you can contact Shannon Alexander, the Coastal Region Steward for the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Division of Natural Heritage, at (757) 710-3428.
Continuing with my project to work in Lightroom and Photoshop on some shots from previous WDW weekend trips.
DinoLand USA in Disney's Animal Kingdom is truly a unique place. No where else can one witness dinosaurs celebrating their impending extinction and, in some instances like pictured here, setting up chairs and cooler on the roof for a nose-bleed view of the meteor that's going to wipe them out!
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Extinction Rebellion climate protesters block Paris at Place du Châtelet @extinctionrebellionfrance #urgenceclimatique
#urgenceecologique
#suitedumonde
#occupationparis
#extinctionrebellionfrance
#extinctionrebellion
#suitedumonde
#internationalrebellion
#occupationparis
#chatelet
Wednesday, Day 3 of the protest and the boat is still there at Oxford Circus along with demonstrators chained underneath and a potting compost dancefloor. Like Glasto without the headliners.