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Bush Dogs are so rare that they were thought to be extinct when first discovered through fossils. The Bush Dog is the only living species in the genus Speothos, and genetic evidence suggests that its closest living relative is the Maned Wolf of central South America. In spite of its extensive range across Central and South America, the Bush Dog is very rare in most areas except in Suriname, Guyana and Peru.
The Bush Dog was first identified by Peter Wilhelm Lund from fossils in Brazilian caves and was believed to be extinct. Lund was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, archeologist who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as well as archeology.
Should we stay or should we go?
Elephant numbers have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and they could be mostly extinct by the end of the next decade. An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts, leaving only 400,000 remaining.
An insatiable lust for ivory products in the Asian market makes the illegal ivory trade extremely profitable, and has led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of African elephants. Between 2010 and 2014, the price of ivory in China tripled, driving illicit poaching through the roof. If the elephants are to survive, the demand for ivory must be stopped .
As of 2011, the world is losing more elephants than the population can reproduce, threatening the future of African elephants across the continent. Bull elephants with big tusks are the main targets and their numbers have been diminished to less than half of the females. Female African elephants have tusks and are also killed, which has a terrible effect on the stability of elephant societies, leaving an increasing number of orphaned baby elephants.
There are still more African elephants being killed for ivory than are being born . . . elephant populations continue to decline. (worldelephantday.org)
Not a happy day with these statistics ... but have a HBW anyway!
African Elephant / Afrikanischer Elefant (Loxodonta africana)
Zambezi river, Lower Zambezi N.P., Zambia
An old volcano on the Peninsula. Maori name Hereweka, also called Harbour Cone. Our whole harbour is a volcano crater, extinct since 10 million years ago. It was active for about 6 million years before that. Thinking of people in the Canary Islands about 100 km west of Morocco just now.
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Extinct in the UK by the end of the 19th century due to habitat loss and persecution, occasional nesting pairs returned to eastern England during the 1970’s. Numbers have increased steadily since then . Many birds now overwinter and quite large roosts can be seen in some areas, especially in eastern England. The recent roost counts locally have found as many as 20 birds roosting in one spot . It is estimated that 350 to 390 pairs bred in the UK last year
Yes...Extinct in the Wild. Simandoa Cave Roach, a harmless insect that lived a symbiotic relationship with bats. Miners tore down the cave - and the only specimens we have left are captive bred.
Some of the moai found around the island have these large, red pieces on their heads. Despite what they look like, these aren’t hats, but are rather the hair styles (top knots) of those particular people represented by the statues.
Called ‘pukaos’, these large rocks were carved at the Puna Pau quarry out of red scoria, and are different to the rest of the stone you can find around the island.
A trip to Puna Pau allowed me to look into the quarry, as well as saw a number of pukao that never made it to their final destination.
it is where you really decide who you are as a photographer, and where you shape your project :-)
Jonas Bendiksen
once thought to be extinct, this "doe doe bird" has been making all too frequent visits to our back yard bird feeder...she stays entirely too long, 10 -15 minutes on this visit, and consumes quite a bit of bird seed...and when she's not getting her fill of bird seed, i believe she is responsible for "pruning" our day lilies, hydrangea, plumbago and creeping raspberry ;-((
on the bright side, i did spot her "fertilizing" our back yard ;-)
La point Saint-Mathieu avec son phare, son sémaphore, son ancienne abbaye et sa chapelle
Plougonvelin, Finistère
Bretagne
France
février 2021
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. The genus name comes from the Provençal French Aigrette, egret a diminutive of Aigron, heron. The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta.
It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. It breeds colonially, often with other species of water birds, making a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. A clutch of bluish-green eggs is laid and incubated by both parents. The young fledge at about six weeks of age.
Its breeding distribution is in wetlands in warm temperate to tropical parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. A successful colonist, its range has gradually expanded north, with stable and self-sustaining populations now present in the United Kingdom.
It first appeared in the UK in significant numbers in 1989 and first bred in Dorset in 1996
In warmer locations, most birds are permanent residents; northern populations, including many European birds, migrate to Africa and southern Asia to over-winter there. The birds may also wander north in late summer after the breeding season, and their tendency to disperse may have assisted in the recent expansion of the bird's range. At one time common in Western Europe, it was hunted extensively in the 19th century to provide plumes for the decoration of hats and became locally extinct in northwestern Europe and scarce in the south. Around 1950, conservation laws were introduced in southern Europe to protect the species and their numbers began to increase. By the beginning of the 21st century the bird was breeding again in France, the Netherlands, Ireland and Britain. It has also begun to colonise the New World; it was first seen in Barbados in 1954 and first bred there in 1994. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the bird's global conservation status as being of least concern..
Les insectes du monde entier sont en voie d'extinction , Plus de 40 % des espèces d'insectes sont en déclin et un tiers sont menacées, selon les chercheurs. Leur taux de mortalité est huit fois plus rapide que celui des mammifères, oiseaux et reptiles. Au cours des trente dernières années, la masse totale des insectes existant dans le monde a diminué de 2,5 % chaque année. A ce rythme, s'inquiètent les scientifiques, ils pourraient disparaître d'ici à un siècle. « C'est très rapide. Dans dix ans, il y aura un quart d'insectes de moins, dans cinquante ans, plus que la moitié, et dans cent ans, il n'y en aura plus » Les insectes sont « essentiels » au bon fonctionnement de tous les écosystèmes, expliquent les chercheurs. Ils pollinisent les plantes, recyclent les nutriments et servent de nourriture de base aux autres animaux. Leur disparition « aura des conséquences catastrophiques à la fois pour les écosystèmes de la planète et pour la survie de l'humanité » L'un des impacts majeurs concerne les nombreux oiseaux, reptiles, amphibiens et poissons qui se nourrissent d'insectes. « Si cette source de nourriture leur est enlevée, tous ces animaux mourront de faim » , « Si nous ne changeons pas nos méthodes de production alimentaire, les insectes dans leur ensemble s'engageront sur la voie de l'extinction dans quelques décennies », écrivent les chercheurs, pour lesquels l'agriculture intensive est la cause principale du déclin des populations d'insectes, en particulier la forte utilisation des pesticides. L'urbanisation et le changement climatique sont également des facteurs importants.
Image prise dans un milieu naturel .
Interesting information about this bird: dino.wikia.org/wiki/Dodo
He can be seen in SL here: Savor Serenity, River Hill
Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/savor_serenity/
Taken from the summit of Puy de Dôme in the volcanic region of Auvergne, France.
Pentax KP, 85mm, f/9.0. 1/320 sec, ISO 200. Have learnt how to do borders in Lightroom but you lose the EXIF info.
Londolozi Game Reserve
Kruger National Park
South Africa
Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) is a southern subspecies of the plains zebra. It is named after the British explorer and naturalist William John Burchell. Common names include bontequagga, Burchell's zebra, Damara zebra, and Zululand zebra.
Formerly, the Burchell's zebra range was centered north of the Vaal/Orange River system, extending northwest via southern Botswana to Etosha and the Kaokoveld, and southeast to Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal. Now extinct in the middle portion, it survives at the northwestern and southeastern ends of the distribution.
Burchell's zebra migrates the longest distance of any terrestrial animal in Africa, traveling 160 miles one way. They migrate from the Chobe River in Namibia to Nxai Pan National Park in Botswana. Their migration follows a straight north–south route almost entirely within the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA). – Wikipedia
Le tigre de l’Amour, secteur Asie orientale du Zoo sauvage de St-Félicien, 2230 Bd du Jardin, Saint-Félicien, Québec, Canada.
Le tigre de l'Amour (Panthera tigris altaica) est la plus grande sous-espèce du tigre, originaire du nord de l'Extrême-Orient tempéré : Sibérie orientale, Corée et nord de la Chine. Il est en « danger d'extinction ».
Autrefois, cette espèce se nommait le tigre de Sibérie, car on la retrouvait sur une grande partie du territoire Sibérien. L’appellation tigre de l’Amour reflète donc mieux la situation géographique actuelle de l’espèce, car malheureusement, on ne la retrouve plus que dans la région du fleuve de l’Amour.
Le tigre de Sibérie a, en général, un corps plus grand et plus massif que le tigre du Bengale, et des pattes plus larges ; sa taille au garrot va de 100 à 120 cm selon les individus. Ses griffes mesurent environ 10 cm. Les tigres de Sibérie pèsent de 180 à 350 kg pour les mâles et de 100 à 200 kg pour les femelles. Le tigre de Sibérie est le troisième plus gros prédateur terrestre derrière l'ours kodiak et l'ours polaire. La robe possède la particularité d'avoir une fourrure d'été et une fourrure d'hiver.
L'essentiel de la population se concentre aujourd'hui en Extrême-Orient russe, où le dernier recensement approfondi de 2015 a compté 562 individus, en augmentation ces dernières années. Cette sous-espèce était passée au bord de l'extinction au milieu du 20e siècle, où il ne restait qu'une vingtaine d'individus sauvages. Ce sont des mesures de protection énergiques prises en Russie qui lui ont permis de se multiplier. La population des tigres de Sibérie de Corée du Nord est, en revanche, quasiment éteinte. La population des tigres de l'Amour du nord de la Chine, après avoir frôlé l'extinction (il y avait seulement 7 spécimens connus à l'orée des années 2000), suite à une politique de protection de l'environnement draconienne, a fortement augmenté de façon inespérée et atteint 55 individus sauvages en 2021.
Le Zoo sauvage dédié aux espèces de la Boréalie est constitué de deux parties. Une partie que l’on visite en se déplaçant dans un train grillagé qui permet de partager l’intimité de près de 1000 animaux vivant dans de grands espaces naturels. Une deuxième partie pédestre plus conventionnelle. L’ensemble du zoo propose une sorte d’intégration à la biodiversité boréale. Les animaux du Zoo sauvage vivent en milieu ouvert, très souvent en cohabitation avec d’autres espèces et dans des habitats qui ressemblent le plus possible à leur milieu naturel.
Our Ben Franklin tree (Franklinia alatamaha), that I had an opportunity to purchase this Spring, is blooming! We read they bloom in late Summer and it's had 4 buds for weeks. Today - the first 2 blossoms opened - yay!!!
THIS TREE IS EXTINCT IN THE WILD. A 2 to 3-acre patch was discovered in South Georgia in 1765 by John & Wm Bartram - along the Altamaha River. William later collected seeds and specimens - thankfully - because every tree known today originated with those seeds! They named it after family friend Benjamin Franklin. This species was never found anywhere else, and the last tree found there was in 1803. Few people have ever seen this tree - and fewer still have ever seen and smelled the blossoms. We are blessed!
> 1 of 2 Ben Franklin blossoms in our N Georgia yard - today 7-28-22
"Mount Franklin is an extinct volcano. It was known as Lalgambook by the local Jajowurrong people. In 1841 Sir John Franklin, Lieut-Governor of Van Dieman's Land, modestly named the mountain after himself."
E.S. Parker established the Jim Crow Aboriginal Station at Mount Franklin. In 1852 diggings were discovered that took the same name; the following year the Dry Diggings were discovered. The district soon developed as a gold-mining centre."
One of the strangest mountains I saw was this mountain close to Eide, and close to this shot (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/30835351963). Another lucky moment when the sun added some light on this mount of Doom, it looks like Frodo was here :).
Norway, a stunningly beautiful country. Around every corner a chance for a scenic image, forcing me from time to time to stop every kilometer to get out of my car, sometimes with screeching brakes, and sometimes forcing me to curse because there was no place to stop.
Lovely valleys, bare mountains and cold winds, snow packs, glaciers, beautiful lakes, and then there are the enchanting fjords that never stop to amaze. The most beautiful country of Europe, for me no doubt about that, with only one minor aspect, which is the weather. During my month of traveling I only had 4 really nice days, the rest of the time clouds, rain, and very changeable! Still no regret, and I will go back to make even more than the 3500 pictures that I took this time.
Another very active vacation that took me to the south west up to Trondheim in a sort of triangle between Oslo- trondheim and Bergen with the whole route visible here (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153668247101759&set...).
Like a prehistoric beast, it waits in a field for another chance. Rusty and forlorn; the last of its kind.
Red Kites:-
This magnificently graceful bird of prey is unmistakable with its reddish-brown body, angled wings and deeply forked tail.
The RSPB is celebrating the "remarkable" comeback of the Red Kite, a bird which had almost become extinct in Britain.
For more than 400 years the bird of prey was killed as vermin and by the 1960s there were just 20 pairs.
But the organisation's 2011 Big Garden Birdwatch survey recorded as many as 2,000 breeding pairs, an increase of over 130% since last year.
Its return began in the 1990s with re-introductions in several areas.
At the turn of the 20th century it was extinct in England and Scotland with just a handful of breeding pairs in the Welsh valleys.
The Welsh birds began to expand slowly in the 1980s with legal protection, reduced persecution and efforts of conservationists, but remained very vulnerable.
Courtesy: RSPB
" The Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis), also known as dabchick, is a member of the grebe family of water birds...A small, dumpy grebe which often appears to have a 'fluffy' rear end...It readily dives when disturbed, surfacing unseen some distance away...In summer it has a bright chestnut throat and cheeks and a pale gape patch at the base of the bill. It can be noisy, with a distinctive whinnying trill..."
"Damselflies are insects in the sub-order Zygoptera (meaning "paired-wings")...All four wings are near enough equal in size and shape...They are usually small, weakly flying insects that stay close to the water margins or water surface... When at rest, most species hold their wings along the length of their abdomen...In Great Britain and Ireland there are over 20 species that may be encountered and a few that are now extinct. These species fall into 4 families and 9 genera...."
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Koko Crater (Hawaiian: Kohelepelepe or Puʻu Mai) is an extinct tuff cone located on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu near Hawaiʻi Kai. It is a part of the Honolulu Volcanics, which were craters that formed as vents of the Koʻolau Volcano during its rejuvenation stage. During World War II, the U.S. military built bunkers on top of Koko Crater with a railroad leading to its summit. In 1966, the air force ceded administration of Koko Crater over to the City of Honolulu. It was then renamed to the Koko Head Regional Park. Within this park is the Koko Crater Trail, which is a 1.8-mile-long trail that uses the now-abandoned railroad as its pathway. The trail heads up 990 ft and 1,048 railroad cross-ties at a very steep incline, and the views at the Koko Head Crater summit are 1,208 ft above sea level.
The abandoned railway trail can be seen as the faint 'line' up the side of the crater in the photograph above (starts just above the baseball/softball field and ends at the peak of the crater). This photo was taken from the Hawai'i Kai Lookout along the side of Kalanianaʻole Highway.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Not exactly a household brand name, but this is the logo from my old film SLR, a mid seventies classic!
HMM!
An extinct speces Urania sloanus, or Sloane's urania, was a species of moth of the family Uraniidae endemic to Jamaica. It was last reported in 1894 or 1895, but possibly survived until at least 1908. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.
The specific epithet sloanus honours Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), an English collector whose collection became the foundation of the British Museum.
Wikipedia: Phanom Rung Historical Park is an archaeological site in Thailand, covering the ruins of Prasat Phanom Rung, a Hindu Khmer Empire temple complex set on the rim of an extinct volcano at 402 meters (1,319 ft) elevation. It is located in Buriram Province in the Isan region of Thailand, and was built at a time when Khmer social-political influences were significant in Srisaket. It was built of sandstone and laterite between the 10th and 13th centuries. It was a Hindu shrine dedicated to Shiva, and symbolises Mount Kailash, his heavenly dwelling.
Thailand's Department of Fine Arts spent 17 years restoring the complex to its original state from 1971 to 1988. On 21 May 1988, the park was officially opened by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. In 2005, the temple was submitted to UNESCO for consideration as a future World Heritage Site.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanom_Rung_Historical_Park
Photographers note: This was my second visit to this site. Family was visiting and wanted to see some ancient Khmer ruins. We visited four sites in two days.
#MacroMondays
#Wood
The once mighty volcano Mount Crayon, erupting frequently, now seems to be extinct. Or is it only dormant, and its magma chamber holds some future surprises?
Well, this pretty much sums up this image (and also my drawing activities which have been dormant for a long time now): It's only half of what I had originally envisioned for our "Wood" theme. Because (of course) I wanted to depict an active volcano, maybe with a lava stream and some smoke. But... I ran out of time (of course) and I also wasn't sure how to make the smoke appear as if it came right out of the volcanic crater/conduit. Red wax could have served as lava but the smoke... Well, this is definitely something I will keep in mind for our Redux (or maybe Redo) theme at the end of the year, so stay tuned for Mount Crayon's mighty comeback ;)
It kind of broke my heart to break off the crayon's tip/lead but if I wanted to have something that looked like a volcano, I had no choice because none of the numerous, long unused pencils and crayons lying around in boxes around the house already had a broken lead.
I placed a gold-coated paper cake board behind the crayon and illuminated it with yellow light from the right to get the golden half of the background, and I held the small LED flashlight equipped with a small pink semi-transparent lid (of a SodaStream gas cylinder) above it to create the pink highlights (which I hoped would give the impression of some lava or heat but...). To get the entire volcanic crater sharp I did focus bracketing with 55 images that I combined in Helicon Focus (Method A, Radius 7, Smoothing 7). Processed in LR (the basics) and in Colour Efex (Detail Extractor filter applied on the crayon only).
HMM, Everyone! (I will catch up with you a little later.)