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There are a couple of single lane wooden bridges on the dirt road to the Paluma Dam. Pulling over and exploring is so worthwhile. The creeks are simply beautiful with pristine water flowing pretty much all year round.
(Orthonyx temminckii)
O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat - QLD
Austrália
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Austrália (2024) (309)
- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)
- All the photos for this family Orthonychidae (Ortoniquídeos) (1)
- All the photos for this species Orthonyx temminckii (1)
- All the photos taken this day 2024/11/18 (12)
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I really loved Panama City. You can be in the surrounding rainforest in the morning watching exotic birds. With less than a 1/2 kilometer walk, you can then have a picnic along the Panama Canal lazily watching large boats floating by. By evening, and a 45 minute bus ride, you are back in this big and ultra modern city for a lovely walk and a beautiful skyline.
I composed this image while hiking to Lake Mauan, in Fiordland, in New Zealand's South Island.
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation and the absence of wildfire. Rainforests can be generally classified as tropical rainforests or temperate rainforests, but other types have been described.
Estimates vary from 40% to 75% of all biotic species being indigenous to the rainforests. There may be many millions of species of plants, insects and microorganisms still undiscovered in tropical rainforests. Tropical rainforests have been called the "jewels of the Earth" and the "world's largest pharmacy", because over one quarter of natural medicines have been discovered there.
Rainforests as well as endemic rainforest species are rapidly disappearing due to deforestation, the resulting habitat loss and pollution of the atmosphere.
For today's theme, The Rainforest. I live halfway between the Pacific Ocean and the rainforest; for me, it's a short drive in either direction. Here are three photos taken when I took an overseas visitor on a day excursion into Willi Willi National Park's subtropical rainforest.
We came across this lovely pool in a rainforest of Far North Queensland, Australia. Tropical rainforests are a rapidly shrinking and poorly protected ecosystem. This forest is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, a natural World Heritage Site. The region, along with a select number of other rainforest areas on the Australian east coast, collectively form some of the oldest extant rainforest communities in the world. At around 180 million years old, these ancient, self-sustaining forests are nearly 10 million years older than the Amazon of South America, and have witnessed dinosaurs, ice ages, and early humans all come and go. (Excerpts from Wikipedia)
These are the last of the Michael McWilliams paintings I will show, and it culminates on the same day the exhibition at the QVMAG in Launceston ends.
I hope you have enjoyed the work by this significant Australian painter, and will continue to support his work. You can even purchase his paintings via links on his personal web site. There are three major galleries that represent his work:
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Rainforest dancer, 2015
Acrylic on linen
120 x 150 cm
This painting is my personal favourite. Rough night out, 2012 is a more dramatic and arguably better painting, but look closely at this forest scene. In this primordial setting a lone Pademelon (Thylogale) dances on the forest floor (where the little nothofagus leaves look like confetti) with no seeming threat for this little creature. It's like the Garden of Eden (without Adam and Eve). But that's not to say that people don't belong here, for thousands of years the indigenous Palawa people lived in relative harmony with the native fauna. Apart from hunting for food, the few thousand indigenous people who populated Tasmania at any one time, meant the animals were never hunted to extinction.
When the colonisers arrived at the turn of the 19th century the numbers of Palawa people were estimated to be no more than 4000 to 5000. As these people were literally driven off their land and the surviving few harboured on Flinders Island, the human population in the colony rose substantially. And with it came the land clearances, the forest felling, the introduction of exotic species, and the destruction of a whole host of native flora and fauna. Life in the forest was never to be the same again.
So dance on little Pademelon, for you remind us of how things once were. And if we are to take proper stewardship of this land, then perhaps we can restore a little of the natural harmony that once was in this sacred place.
I composed this image of a Canadian rainforest while visiting British Columbia Canada's Sunshine Coast.
Rainforests cover less than 10 per cent of the world’s land surface, but the impact of this ecosystem is great: rainforests can be some of the most productive areas on Earth. To be productive, these areas need a high rate of transformation of nutrients and energy in growth. Plants absorb carbon in the atmosphere as well as sunlight, thereby producing sugars within their leaves, a process called photosynthesis. This process releases oxygen back into the air as it removes a lot of carbon dioxide, a green house gas, from the atmosphere. The vegetation in rainforests is responsible for nearly one-third of the world’s oxygen production. Furthermore, between 40 and 75 per cent of the world’s biotic (or living) species live in the world’s rainforests making these areas rich in biodiversity.
Canadian rainforests are part of a narrow band along the coast of the Pacific Ocean, from Alaska to northern California. The conditions needed to maintain this last rainforest are mostly created by the presence of the Pacific Ocean, making this a coastal temperate rainforest. Approximately 74 000 km2 of this coastal forest lies in Canada, which is 1.8% of Canada’s total forest area. This means that almost half of North America’s coastal rainforest, and close to 25 per cent of the world’s temperate rainforests, can be found in British Columbia!
My friend Raphael wearing his bright green “Walk for Autism” T-shirt as we walk along the Skywalk aerial bridges through the Tambourin Mountains rainforest in Queensland. He had to make 10,000 steps daily.
One immediately gets a sense of peace when walking amongst the giant Western Red Cedars (Thuja plicata) of the inland temperate rainforest in the central interior of British Columbia. The remnant old growth Cedar stands of the Interior Cedar Hemlock Ecozone can frequently be between 400-800 years old with trees in remote pockets found up to four metres in diameter with ages estimated well over 1000 years old. As the only inland rainforest ecosystem found more than 500 km from an ocean, it is unique in its heavy reliance on snowpack melt to maintain high levels of early season humidity. Upper Fraser Valley, Longworth, British Columbia, Canada
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During a momentary break in the rain, a damp-faced ‘amakihi feeds on the nectar of wet ‘ohi’a lehua. The decurved bill shape of the ‘amakihi is conducive to nectar feeding on the ‘ōhi’a lehua blossoms and for scraping bark and lichen to find insects as a protein source. One of the few remaining species of endemic honeycreepers on the island of Oahu, the ‘amakihi still thrives in higher elevation rainforests. Recent census indicates the population is stable or slightly increasing likely due to resistance to mosquito transmitted avian malaria, adaptability to feed on nonindigenous food sources, and the capacity to become habituated to human presence. The O’ahu ‘amakihi is an endemic forest bird resulting from insular evolution on the island of Oahu.
Killarney National Park. The most extensive rainforest in Ireland. A fallen branch provides life for mosses and epiphytes
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French Guyana (French: Guyane) is an overseas department and region of France. It is located in the north of South America on the Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and Suriname at 4° north latitude and 53° west longitude. French Guyana is a fully integrated part of the French state and thus also part of the European Union and NATO. The euro is legal tender. 90% of the region is covered with primary tropical rainforest, which is part of the Amazon basin and has a great diversity of species. French Guyana is about the size of Austria and has about 250,000 inhabitants, most of whom live on or near the coast. The climate is tropical, the average annual temperature is 28°C with an average humidity of 90%. There is no tourist infrastructure worth mentioning, developed roads only near the coast. The region is known in Europe as a former French penal colony ("Papillon") and through the spaceport 'Centre Spatial Guyanais' in Kourou.
Rainforest in the interior of the country between Cayenne and Régina, French Guyana 02.11.2017
Guyane - Regenwald ohne Ende
Französisch-Guyana (frz. Guyane) ist ein Überseedépartement und eine Region Frankreichs. Es liegt im Norden von Südamerika am Atlantischen Ozean zwischen Brasilien und Suriname bei 4° nördlicher Breite und 53° westlicher Länge. Frz.-Guyana ist ein voll integrierter Teil des französischen Staates und damit auch Teil der Europäischen Union und der NATO. Der Euro ist gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel. 90% der Region sind mit primärem tropischen Regenwald bedeckt, der Teil des Amazonasbecken ist und eine große Artenvielfalt aufweist. Frz.-Guyana ist etwa so groß wie Österreich und hat ca. 250.000 Einwohner, die zum großen Teil an oder nahe der Küste leben. Das Klima ist tropisch, die Jahrestemperatur beträgt konstant im Mittel 28°C bei einer durchschnittlichen Luftfeuchtigkeit von 90%. Eine nennenswerte touristische Infrastruktur gibt es nicht, ausgebaute Straßen nur in Küstennähe. In Europa bekannt ist die Region als ehemalige französische Strafkolonie ("Papillon") und durch den Weltraumbahnhof 'Centre Spatial Guyanais' in Kourou.
Regenwald im Inneren des Landes zwischen Cayenne und Régina, Frz.-Guyana 02.11.2017
A shot I took in Minamurra Rainforest in the South of Sydney, Australia.
I used some great tips from Matt K. to enhance the mood of the image, and give it more of a Jurassic Park feel.
The Hoh Rainforest is located on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington state, USA. It is one of the largest temperate rainforests in the U.S.[1] Within Olympic National Park, the forest is protected from commercial exploitation. This includes 24 miles (39 km) of low elevation forest 394 to 2,493 feet (120 to 760 m) along the Hoh River. The Hoh River valley was formed thousands of years ago by glaciers. Between the park boundary and the Pacific Ocean, 48 km (30 mi) of river, much of the forest has been logged within the last century, although many pockets of forest remain.