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Internationaler Tag zur Erhaltung der Artenvielfalt 2021
Biodiversity Day 2021 is being celebrated under the slogan: "We're part of the solution #ForNature".
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
More information about this great challenge of our life on planet earth here!
African Elephant / Afrikanischer Elefant (Loxodonta africana)
digging a hole in the dry riverbed of Tarangire River to quench his thirst and to take a little shower while two giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) are feeding on some leaves of a small bush in
Tarangire N.P., Tanzania, Africa
Science as a Candle in the Dark
52,47679° N, 13,40841° E
July 2026
All vanity and frivolity
Tempelhofer Feld
Berlin DE.
Followed by an affogato in the beer garden, a good afternoon out.
Wooden Hearts
#leicaQ: ƒ/16 @1/2000 ISO:100 Daylight & Flash (on, fired)
Trousers: Scottish/Crutchless/Elvis/ Swabian
Attitude: Sei mir gut, sei mir gut
Sei mir wie du wirklich sollst
Wie du wirklich sollst
'Cause I don't have a wooden heart
A public holiday in Berlin and Treptower Park this afternoon was full of people enjoying the spring sun. I was so delighted to hear the sound of the bagpipes playing over the boom boxes. The Skye Boat Song and Flower of Scotland were a delight. Wooden Heart by Elvis made my heart sing. I am in Berlin.
These flora portraits are my passion and delight. My pictures are daylight, made in city green spaces, with virtually no post processing. I like to stand still and look at what I would have missed if I wasn’t making a picture.
Here's one more, a little Tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor) in honor of World Migratory Bird Day 2020
I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh, and just like the river I’ve been a-runnin’ ever since
It’s been a long, a long time comin’
But I know, oh-oo-oh,
A change gon’ come, oh yes, it will.
A Change Is Gonna Come | Sam Cooke
So much has happened in the year since I captured this image of a trio of young men enjoying a quiet moment outdoors. As the covid-19 pandemic raged across our world, we’ve had to face and overcome many challenges, much of it in isolation. As vaccinations slowly begin to roll out across the world, a renewed sense of hope that we will soon be able to gather again, and enjoy life together.
Avocat Waterfall. Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
Here's my little Snowy egret (Egretta thula) in honor of World Migratory Bird Day 2020
October 10 2020 is World Migratory Bird Day
The Brown Vine Snake (Oxybelis aeneus), is a neotropical colubrid snake found from the Southern United States to South America. Arboreal by nature, this species occupies a number of different habitats across its range – including near human habitation, like this individual photographed in my garden. Growing up to six feet in length, their extremely slender body and brown colour allow it to expertly camouflage among the vines, twigs and branches of plants; giving it the local name of “Horsewhip” for which it superficially resembles. They are diurnal hunters with large eyes and binocular vision, used to accurately spot and hunt prey. It is rear-fanged and mildly venomous, but only to the lizards and frogs it primarily preys upon. Bites to humans only result in a minor itching sensation and are considered harmless. Trinidad & Tobago,W.I.
“Pay attention, say your name
Listen closely and keep warm
Gentle hands, you are brave
Look at me and carry on.”
Land Of Gold | Anoushka Shankar, Alev Lenz
I’m visited by this baby tropical house gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) as I edit photos late into the night. It shows very little fear of me, happily chasing and eating the insects attracted to the bright glow of my computer screen. Trinidad & Tobago.
“The foods we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the climate that makes our planet habitable all come from nature. Yet, these are exceptional times in which nature is sending us a message: To care for ourselves we must care for nature. It’s time to wake up. To take notice. To raise our voices. It’s time to build back better for People and Planet.This World Environment Day, it’s Time for Nature.” | UN Environment Programme
Winter scene on a side channel of the Platte, as the horizon spins away from the sun.
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Flowers in an Urban Garden
I come from a family of gardeners. To my mind, really good ones. Every inch of available land was cultivated, discussed, worked over, loved and cared for. For the most part these are the front and back gardens of family homes. In return these micro green spaces provided us with vegetables, herbs, colour, aroma and much more importantly in my opinion, a place to play. Of course I helped out as a child. Helpfulness was short lived, tolerated but not really helpful at all. I was more into my drawing. From these loved ones I learned something about colour and form. All through flora. They gardened, arranged, harvested and ate.
It is different now. It was my uncle who opened my eyes to the needs of our shared environment. Through him and his membership of Greenpeace, I first learnt something about myself but at that time I didn’t understand or I couldn’t grasp is a young person. It confused me. “Tidy your garden.” It finally make sense. I am not anything like as great a thinker as I may wish. I am rarely original in my ideas. Ideas grow. As they grow so do I. So do my pictures.
These flora portraits are my delight. TERRA INCOGNITA is an ongoing urban botanical exploration of my city home, Berlin, with occasional trips out of town. My pictures are all daylight, made in city green spaces, with virtually no post processing. I like to think of our parks and gardens as "Gardens for the gardenless"
Alles liebe aus dem Baumhaus
Spread over 25 000 hectare the forest of Fontainebleau remains a pure pleasure fornature lovers, due to its dense and varied flora and fauna. It contains more than 1600 km of forest routes and pedestrian trails for the pleasure of walkers, including 300 km of signposted trails.
Portrait of a Scorpion Mud Turtle (Kinosternon scorpioides). One of three species of freshwater turtles, native to the islands of Trinidad & Tobago
May 23rd is World Turtle Day. Of the 360 turtle and tortoise species currently recognized, more than half are threatened with extinction, and over a third of species are listed as endangered or critically endangered. Only nonhuman primates are in a more precarious state. Turtles and tortoises are particularly vulnerable to many threats. Globally, loss of habitat from human activities, are the greatest threat. Other threats include overexploitation for the pet trade, hunting for food and traditional medicines, pollution, invasive species, and climate change.
Turtles and tortoises grow slowly, mature late, and live a long time. Although many species produce large clutches of eggs, only a few of their offspring survive to adulthood, so their population growth tends to be slow. This slow and steady lifestyle has served them well for over 200million years, even outlasting the dinosaurs. But modern pressures from humans may prove to be too much for these remarkable jewels of evolution. These long-lived animals are a symbol of perseverance in the natural world. Without concerted conservation action, many of the world’s turtles and tortoises will become extinct within the next few decades. Humans along with a rapidly changing planet may be the problem, so we must therefore be the solution if we are to have a future full of turtles.
Rooms:
- Living- and Dining Room with Sofa Set (Bed Sofa)
- Bedroom with small Bed
- Bathroom with Bath Tub
- Guest Room with Study Area
Floor coverings:
- wooden Flooring, incl. shoeless feeling
Furnishing:
- Beautiful, light-coloured Furniture (Fornature)
Items:
- Washing Machine in the Basement
- Flatscreen TV in the near by Market
- Bed linen and Towels included
Specials:
- Sunny Apartment in Basement
- Alarm System (by security service)
*just kidding* :D
Experimental landscape. Agricultural fields with approaching storm, near Emerald, Nebraska. I'm trying to encompass more sky without sacrificing breadth of horizon; a two-image vertical pan stitched in ps.
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Subdued light rolls across the landscape as the clouds start to build along the front edge of the storm. (IImg0132_DM200806_044_1_flkr.jpg) © All rights reserved.
Nothing like silence to hear what is going on. Old corn field in the Loup River Basin.
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Detail. How outrageous! Unless one looks, you would never believe such color. Then the stems, six feet tall, alternating from red to green to red again, over and over its entire length! Better than fantasy!
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Ample summer rainfall, following a spring burn, produced another year of very tall Big Bluestem. Warm season grasses need summer rains to reach full height, and we had those rains this year. Big Bluestem and Indian Grass in many parts of the burn area are flowering at six and seven feet tall. (Img0140_DM200809_177_11_flkr.jpg) © All rights reserved.