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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in the Curtain Raiser event for the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 6, 2020. IMF Photo/ Cory Hancock
Managed to get myself an old Nikkor lens for £20 because there was a slight fungus on it.
It's not noticable
and has now been killed by a short stint in the the freezer
and takes pretty nice sharp pictures.
=)
From the archives of The Colchester Express being managed by Adrian Rushton (rushphoto@yahoo.com) www.facebook.com/colchesterlifeinphotographs
16003 Haunted Pub Gardeners Arms Chappel 26-08-1971 09
Mrs. Sadgrove with her daughters, Sheila pulling the pumps, at their haunted pub.
A REAL GHOST STORY FOR THE REGULARS
PUBLICAN Joan Sadgrove has dealt with spirits for years but now she's got one she can't deal with. He's Eli a supernatural spirit. Mrs. Sadgrove, who runs the Gardeners Arms Public-house at Chappel, says: "We are not frightened of the ghost, he doesn't do us any harm.
The regulars in the pub tell the story that Eli was the landlord at the turn of the century. Just before he died he put a curse on the place and this has been in evidence ever since.
Mrs. Dadgrove says: "The last owner told tales of stage coaches and horses. One night there were very high winds and the front and back doors flew open and the sound of horses hooves was heard passing through the pub.
"On another occasion the land lord's son heard horses outside but when he looked out of the window there was nothing there."
Mrs. Sadgrove added: "Three years ago we had the painters in. We returned home one day and one of them was shaking and was as white as a sheet. He had heard footsteps walking across the room above but there was no one there."
Mrs. Sadgrove says: "The last Sheila said: "We were all playing darts one night and suddenly the light clicked off and on and no one was near the switch." She added: "Then on another occasion I was doing my hair when I saw a face in the mirror.I turned round but it had gone." So next time you think you are seeing things in the Gardeners Arms it might not be that you have had one too many-It's just Eli up to his old tricks again.
Photograph by staff photographer Stuart Allison
I managed to sneak in a visit to Hardwick Hall before it was forced to close for the November lockdown. Wednesday 4th November 2020. It’s one of the grandest and most important Elizabethan country houses and it’s actually changed very little since that period.
Hardwick Hall was built between 1590 and 1597 (while the adjacent Hardwick Old Hall was still being constructed!) for Bess of Hardwick, and was designed by the architect Robert Smythson. Bess was born in 1527 and through a series of well-made marriages, she rose to the highest levels of English nobility and became enormously wealthy. She was a shrewd business woman, increasing her assets with business interests including mines and glass-making workshops. Already owning Chatsworth House, Bess of Hardwick was the richest woman in England after Queen Elizabeth I and she wanted a grander house to reflect that (it contains one of the largest long galleries in any English house - pictures of that to follow!). The house was very modern for its time and contained a lot of glass windows in a period when glass was seen as something of a luxury.
After Bess's death in 1608, the house passed to her son William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, and subsequent Dukes preferred Chatsworth over Hardwick. As a secondary home, Hardwick escaped the attention of modernisers and thankfully received few alterations after its completion. In 1950, the unexpected death of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, with the subsequent death duties (rated at 80%), caused the sale of many of the Devonshire assets and estates. Hardwick was handed over to HM Treasury in lieu of Estate Duty in 1956 and the estate was transferred to the National Trust in 1959.
In recent years Hardwick Hall was used to film the exterior scenes and interior scenes of Malfoy Manor in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
Managed to get the new 100W solar panel set up the day before the build. It's kinda jerry rigged, but it works...
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks with Francesca Donner, The New York Times’ Director for Gender, for her series “In Her Words” in partnership with the Women’s Forum, at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
29 July 2020
Washington, D.C., United States of America
Photo Reference: CH200729031
2 August 2012 - The vast reserves of minerals buried throughout Afghanistan, including large deposits of copper, gold, and gas could greatly improve the country’s economy and provide funds to develop the country for years to come. But all that wealth might also create a crisis. While some estimates put Afghanistan’s mineral wealth at about $1 trillion, for these minerals to be extracted in a way that benefits all Afghans and promotes sustainable development the industry needs to be managed transparently.
That was the key message at a conference recently held in Kabul to coincide with the release of a report called the Afghanistan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (AEITI). The report contains details of all payments of taxes, royalties and fees the Afghan Government has received from companies operating in the extractive sector. The report equally publishes details of payments made by mining companies to the Afghan Government in order ensure transparency.
“The Afghan Government is committed to share publically all the information related to the extractive sector in the country,” said Dr. Omar Zakhilwal Zakhilwal, Afghanistan’s Afghan Finance Minister.
This kind of transparency is important because sudden new wealth from mining and gas have had a way of undermining many economies. Rather than using that wealth as a blessing that can improve the lives of citizens and improve a country’s infrastructure, it can cause Afghanistan’s currency to appreciate and lead to increased corruption. This well-studied phenomenon is called the “resource curse”, whereby countries with vast oil and mineral wealth don’t see an improvement in the living standards of citizens. For instance Nigeria, which has one of the world’s largest oil reserves, has seen no improvement in its real gross domestic product per person in 30 years. The GDP per capita of Venezuela, another mineral rich country, is lower today than it was in 1977.
Afghanistan joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2010 to help beat the “resource curse”. That Initiative sets international standards for good governance and has established accountability mechanisms for the extractive industries sector. Before a country can join the EITI it has to has to agree to some governance and transparency inidicators.
With funds from the World Bank and the Harakat-Afghanistan Investment Climate Facility Organization (HAICFO), the Ministry of Finance established a secretariat for Afghanistan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (AEITI) to take lead of EITI implementation in Afghanistan.
Speaking at the conference, the Minister for Mines, Waheedullah Shahrani said the government has devised effective policies to better allocate royalties and taxes collected from this industries to make sure that industry can thrive.
“Transparency means that the process is clean, defendable and the information from the process of negotiation up to awarding contracts and exploration and exploitation of mineral resources are shared publically,” said Shahrani.
Shahrani said oil production from Afghanistan’s first ever oil extraction contract at the Amu-River basin will start soon. This will generate $400-$500 million in revenue for Afghan government each year.
Also underway is the Hajigak Iron project, which is already the biggest project in the history of Afghanistan not just from economic perspective but also from the scale of its operations. Hajigak will produce approximately 25 to 30 million tons of iron annually.
Proposals to develop five other mines, of gold and copper, have been tendered. Evaluations of these proposals are underway.
Eight renowned international companies have expressed interest in investing in oil extraction in Tajik-Afghan basins and currently work is in progress on preparing financial model of this project.
The Afghan government is also bringing reforms in the Mining Law of the country to make it more in line with international standards for broader investment attraction.
“Afghanistan’s commitment to EITI for transparency will be integrated into the law and licensing system will be simplified along with ensuring a legal framework for protection of the rights of investors,” said Waheedullah Shahrani.
Minister Shahrani hoped that mining sector will constitute 45 to 50 percent of Afghan economy by 2024.
The Director of World Bank in Afghanistan, Bob Sam said AEITI is an important tool to increase knowledge and information about Afghanistan’s natural resources and help increase accountability and transparency.
“The AEITI is moving ahead well; specifically it is reaching out towards the producer regions where people who are directly affected by mining activities live. It is essential that this initiative is not only supported by Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Mines but also by the grassroots movements across the country and private sector,” said Bob Sam.
Photo: UNAMA / Fardin Waezi
The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Philoptochos honored Archon Michael Psaros, Co-Founder
and Co-Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners at its 64th Annual Chrysanthemum Ball on November
10 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City.
The invocation was delivered by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios assisted by Archdeacon Panteleimon
Papadopoulos. The guests were welcomed by Fr. John Vlahos, Dean of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the
Holy Trinity, Stella Pantelidis, co-chair of the ball and the Cathedral Philoptochos President Dr. Miranda
Kofinas. This year's honoree Michael Psaros was introduced by Maria Marinakis and Maro Stratakis.
Honored guests included Dr. Konstantinos Koutras, Consul General of Greece to New York, and his wife,
Popita Pavli, Ambassador Maria Theophili, Permanent Representative of Greece to the UN, Ambassador
Vasilios Philippou, Consul General of Cyprus to New York, and his wife Anthea, Jennifer Constantine,
Direct Archdiocesan District Philoptochos President, James Gianakis, Archdiocesan Cathedral Board of
Trustees President and Rev. Robert Stephanopoulos, Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral along with
Presvytera Nikki Stephanopoulos.
The Chrysanthemum Ball is the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral Philoptochos’ main annual fundraising
event for its charitable activities.
PHOTO: © GOA/GANP/DIMITRIOS PANAGOS-GANP/ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΟΣ
Managed to pull even more out of the exhaust this morning....
This is the fourth lot of " artificial hair-extensions " that have come out of it !
Where it all comes from is a Mystery... as they used to say in Peckham.
During the course of the programme, these twenty energy conservators managed to visit over 1,700 households, among which 200 replaced their entire old electrical equipment by a new energy-efficient one.
“This represents a 10% impact, which is very encouraging,” explains Pinalben Shah, Project Coordinator from SEWA Energy.
UN Women helped SEWA Energy to monitor and calculate the impact of the trainings and the project.
Photo credit: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh Chandok
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn participates in a Globo News televised debate entitled "Global Economy in a Post-Crisis World" during his visit to Sao Paulo, Brazil May 25, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Sao Paulo, Brazil. IMF Photo/Julio Bittencourt
Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa poses for a photo at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
30 July 2020
Washington, D.C., United States of America
Photo ref: KH200730001
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in a call with the G24 and Bank Governors during the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 13, 2020. IMF Photo/ Cory Hancock
Conference co-organized by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI) and sponsored by CNI
Managing Director of Ingénue Consultancy Ms. Kayt Watts highlights the latest development trends of international certification schemes.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva poses for a portrait at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
22 December, 2020
Washington, DC, United States of America
Photo Reference: CH201222008
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn meets Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff [and Finance Minister Guido Mantega] in Brasilia, Brazil. Photo: Humberto Pradera
Press Conference by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Beijing, China, November 10, 2011. Anoop Singh, Director of Asia & Pacific Department and Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) along with IMF's European Director Marek Belka (2nd R) and IMF's External Relations Director Caroline Atkinson (2nd L) meet with Slawomir Skrzypek (L), the President of the National Bank of Poland at the National Bank of Poland March 29, 2010 in Warsaw, Poland. Strauss-Kahn will speak later at the Warsaw School of Economics about “After the Global Financial Crisis: the Road Ahead". IMF Photograph/RAFAL MESZKA
2 August 2012 - The vast reserves of minerals buried throughout Afghanistan, including large deposits of copper, gold, and gas could greatly improve the country’s economy and provide funds to develop the country for years to come. But all that wealth might also create a crisis. While some estimates put Afghanistan’s mineral wealth at about $1 trillion, for these minerals to be extracted in a way that benefits all Afghans and promotes sustainable development the industry needs to be managed transparently.
That was the key message at a conference recently held in Kabul to coincide with the release of a report called the Afghanistan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (AEITI). The report contains details of all payments of taxes, royalties and fees the Afghan Government has received from companies operating in the extractive sector. The report equally publishes details of payments made by mining companies to the Afghan Government in order ensure transparency.
“The Afghan Government is committed to share publically all the information related to the extractive sector in the country,” said Dr. Omar Zakhilwal Zakhilwal, Afghanistan’s Afghan Finance Minister.
This kind of transparency is important because sudden new wealth from mining and gas have had a way of undermining many economies. Rather than using that wealth as a blessing that can improve the lives of citizens and improve a country’s infrastructure, it can cause Afghanistan’s currency to appreciate and lead to increased corruption. This well-studied phenomenon is called the “resource curse”, whereby countries with vast oil and mineral wealth don’t see an improvement in the living standards of citizens. For instance Nigeria, which has one of the world’s largest oil reserves, has seen no improvement in its real gross domestic product per person in 30 years. The GDP per capita of Venezuela, another mineral rich country, is lower today than it was in 1977.
Afghanistan joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2010 to help beat the “resource curse”. That Initiative sets international standards for good governance and has established accountability mechanisms for the extractive industries sector. Before a country can join the EITI it has to has to agree to some governance and transparency inidicators.
With funds from the World Bank and the Harakat-Afghanistan Investment Climate Facility Organization (HAICFO), the Ministry of Finance established a secretariat for Afghanistan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (AEITI) to take lead of EITI implementation in Afghanistan.
Speaking at the conference, the Minister for Mines, Waheedullah Shahrani said the government has devised effective policies to better allocate royalties and taxes collected from this industries to make sure that industry can thrive.
“Transparency means that the process is clean, defendable and the information from the process of negotiation up to awarding contracts and exploration and exploitation of mineral resources are shared publically,” said Shahrani.
Shahrani said oil production from Afghanistan’s first ever oil extraction contract at the Amu-River basin will start soon. This will generate $400-$500 million in revenue for Afghan government each year.
Also underway is the Hajigak Iron project, which is already the biggest project in the history of Afghanistan not just from economic perspective but also from the scale of its operations. Hajigak will produce approximately 25 to 30 million tons of iron annually.
Proposals to develop five other mines, of gold and copper, have been tendered. Evaluations of these proposals are underway.
Eight renowned international companies have expressed interest in investing in oil extraction in Tajik-Afghan basins and currently work is in progress on preparing financial model of this project.
The Afghan government is also bringing reforms in the Mining Law of the country to make it more in line with international standards for broader investment attraction.
“Afghanistan’s commitment to EITI for transparency will be integrated into the law and licensing system will be simplified along with ensuring a legal framework for protection of the rights of investors,” said Waheedullah Shahrani.
Minister Shahrani hoped that mining sector will constitute 45 to 50 percent of Afghan economy by 2024.
The Director of World Bank in Afghanistan, Bob Sam said AEITI is an important tool to increase knowledge and information about Afghanistan’s natural resources and help increase accountability and transparency.
“The AEITI is moving ahead well; specifically it is reaching out towards the producer regions where people who are directly affected by mining activities live. It is essential that this initiative is not only supported by Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Mines but also by the grassroots movements across the country and private sector,” said Bob Sam.
Photo: UNAMA / Fardin Waezi
Since 2010, the Headland now managed by Swire Hotels.(used to be Accor)
Exclusively accommodating employees of Cathay Pacific Airways and associated companies, the 4 star Headland Hotel is located on Chep Lap Kok Island, Hong Kong International Airport, adjacent to Cathay Pacific Airways corporate headquarters at Cathay Pacific City.
Bigger corn crops call for beefed-up infrastructure and service delivery.
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Managing Director and CFO of the World Bank, Bertrand Badré with President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) greets Bob Geldof (R) at the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel September 20, 2010 in New York City. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in a a Washington Post Live interview to discuss how the Fund is responding to the Global crisis.
IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
3 June 2020
Washington, D.C., United States of America
Photo Reference: KH200603012
The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Philoptochos honored Archon Michael Psaros, Co-Founder
and Co-Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners at its 64th Annual Chrysanthemum Ball on November
10 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City.
The invocation was delivered by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios assisted by Archdeacon Panteleimon
Papadopoulos. The guests were welcomed by Fr. John Vlahos, Dean of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the
Holy Trinity, Stella Pantelidis, co-chair of the ball and the Cathedral Philoptochos President Dr. Miranda
Kofinas. This year's honoree Michael Psaros was introduced by Maria Marinakis and Maro Stratakis.
Honored guests included Dr. Konstantinos Koutras, Consul General of Greece to New York, and his wife,
Popita Pavli, Ambassador Maria Theophili, Permanent Representative of Greece to the UN, Ambassador
Vasilios Philippou, Consul General of Cyprus to New York, and his wife Anthea, Jennifer Constantine,
Direct Archdiocesan District Philoptochos President, James Gianakis, Archdiocesan Cathedral Board of
Trustees President and Rev. Robert Stephanopoulos, Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral along with
Presvytera Nikki Stephanopoulos.
The Chrysanthemum Ball is the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral Philoptochos’ main annual fundraising
event for its charitable activities.
PHOTO: © GOA/GANP/DIMITRIOS PANAGOS-GANP/ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΟΣ
I managed to include 5 coloured fruits and vegetables in this rainbow bento set...there were green zucchini, yellow sweet corns, orange carrots, red tomatoes, and purple plums. Some colourful jelly beans, sour gummy bears and a bottle of vitagen made this a complete healthy meal.
Professor Dracheblume's Herbology Class
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Managed to grab an hour with Danni tonight, very charismatic and an excellent model.
Got some amazing results and had a fun time in the process.
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Managed to talk hubby into going out for a runaround and ended up watching these lovely little creatures.
There had been some discussion, prior to NEMF, about photographing the specimens. After speaking with Bill Yule about it, I conducted an experiment, a run at shooting as many samples as I could. I managed to photograph all the specimens that had been identified from Friday morning’s forays, only stopping when the afternoon foray samples started to come in, at which point I was ready to collapse anyway.
So here is what I did:
I came in to set up somewhere between 9:30 and 10:00 AM. I had a small table, a tripod with an attachment for my iPhone (4s, if that matters, point is, a state-of-the-art model is not necessary) that is pretty much the same spring-loaded holder you get on a selfie stick. I had two lights, just little gooseneck bedside clamp lamps from IKEA. The light was yellow, but one can correct these things in one fell swoop. If needed, better lights can be acquired.
I put the lamps, one on each side, on the backs of chairs spaced a little ways away from my table. I had also brought tuff-spun and other diffusion materials and even a blue gel, but decided against using them. The point here is speed and ease. Quick and dirty is fine as long as the visual data is captured. There is no point in developing a system if it is not feasible.
I brought a roll of gaffer’s tape. (Yeah, my lights were crap, but I had the good tape.) Once things are positioned the legs of the table and tripod and light stands (chairs) are taped down and the tripod is taped to the table. If the power cords are in traffic areas, they should also be taped down for safety and to secure the set up. As my iPhone is elderly, I keep it plugged into to the power, and this was taped up the leg of the tripod. The longer you shoot, the more tired you get, the more likely you are to knock into things, so this is helpful.
I had a plastic mat with a grid on it as a background, but did not use it because it was a dark green. I ended up stealing some cardboard boxes that had held envelopes from the office supplies; the insides were a bit closer to the 18% gray that would have been ideal. Grid not so necessary, but I did miss the ease of cleaning the plastic mat. The optimal background material in the future would be around 18% and a non-reflective plastic. Some mushrooms were wet and left marks on the plastic. The dirt brushed off easily with a small terrycloth rag.
The photo station was set up next to the door. I photographed samples after they had been IDed, usually after the printed labels had been made. But in order to keep up with the volume of specimens, I kept working when Teague & Dorothy & everyone else had gone to the meeting. At that time I photographed specimens that had been IDed, but not yet entered into the system. In any event, I was photographing the mushrooms with their hand-printed data labels as these were smaller and contained more information.
Such mushrooms photographed before being entered were replaced in the queue. As soon as specimens were photographed and labeled, they were put on trays to be moved to the display room. (Often I ended up moving them when a tray was filled and I was waiting on new mushrooms to shoot.)
I had NOT photographed mushroom samples like this before, so I am sure I was doing a lot of wheel re-invention. So I was, and am, open to suggestions in this context. One of the attendees who had clearly done mushroom photography before was put off by my rough & ready set up because of the obvious shadows. This, I take it, goes against the common aesthetic conventions of mushroom photography. But I was not taking beauty shots. And aesthetics are largely fashion. Shadows define form and texture. Form and texture are data, so I wanted shadows. Well, enough shadows to provide information, not to obscure information.
I shot hard for about five hours and then I was TOAST. I ain’t as young as I used to be. To do this on a convention scale, a team of shooters would be optimal. Moreover, I would like to have two photo stations set up so I could have one dedicated to shooting macro. iPhone macro adapters are the way to go, IMO.
As it was I had two levels. Most mushrooms I shot on a box, but for the larger ones to fit in the frame I removed the box. This dropped the surface down about five inches and allowed larger mushrooms to fit into the frame.
To set up a shot I would place the label under the camera. I tried to put them roughly in the same position each time. Some were crumpled. Flattening them wasted time. Optimally I would have set up a label-sized piece of non-reflective glass or plastic on the background, hinged with a bit of gaffer’s tape. This would have solved the positioning issues nicely.
The samples were removed from their boats (looking at them all day long left me with a terrible craving for fried clams, or at least French fries) by hand so as to leave most of the dirt in the boat. A few specimens I had to brush off. Mostly I did not bother. Probably the largest chunk of time was spent positioning. If I had more time, I would have split more caps in order to show top and bottom surfaces. Wouldn’t be a bad idea to split stems/stalks/stipes (whatever you call ‘em) when there are multiple specimens at hand.
I had selected a table height under the assumption that I would be sitting. Absurd. No time to sit. I was moving constantly from table to table moving specimens. The angle made the whole thing a bit physically punishing. I won’t make that mistake again! Ergonomics are key!
A strong suggestion for future foray photo inventories is to shoot the wee tiny ‘shrooms first. I got photos, albeit not macros, of the Mycenas and what all. But they were so dehydrated by the time I got them that they were worthless. On the bright side, this meant I didn’t feel so bad about not having macro capability. But even with a splendid macro set up, if the specimens look like shit, there’s not point. So a bit of a presort has to happened wherein the teeny tinies and the fragile stuff are bumped to the front of the queue.
And the iPhone is frickin’ brilliant for this. I love cameras. I’ve done a lot with point & shoots. I like nice fancy DSLRs as well, but they are not necessary for this sort of project. More than that, a real camera would be a hassle. The iPhone has the memory, the software, the touch screen and it fits in a pocket. It makes all of this feasible. A few tweaks to the set up and it will go very smoothly next time. If there were two shooters, it would be easy, a piece of cake.
The photos are not art shots, but they show the specimens. Not a bad first try, I think. Are these beautiful? Maybe not so much. Still, like my Dad used to always tell us, “Good enough is better than the best!”
Having managed to find a generous handful of the latest recoloured Hot Wheels Jaguar MK1 at The Entertainer it was predictable I would use one to give the Molotow chrome pen treatment. Those bumpers were crying out to be be coloured in silver and I also managed to put some chrome around its windows and rain gutters as per the real vehicle.
A stunning low cost toy car which i'm eager to find in plain colours, premium release excepted, sometime in the near future.
Mint and boxed.
The Ueno Zoo (恩賜上野動物園 Onshi Ueno Dōbutsuen?) is a zoo, managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and located in Taito, Tokyo, Japan. It is Japan's oldest and most famous zoo, opened on March 20, 1882. It is a five-minute walk from the Park Exit of Ueno Station, with convenient access from Tokyo's public-transportation network. The Ueno Zoo Monorail, the first monorail in the country, connects the eastern and western parts of the grounds.
The zoo is located within Ueno Park, a large urban park that is home to several museums, a small amusement park, and other attractions.
As of March, 2003, the zoo has 422 species. The Sumatran tiger, and western lowland gorilla head the list of the zoo's population. Ueno has most variety of species on exhibition than any other zoo in Japan.
At some point, redistribution of the animals among Tokyo's other zoos (including Tama Zoo and Inokashira Nature Park) left Ueno without a lion. However, in response to public demand, Ueno borrowed a female from the Yokohama Municipal Zoo
As of 2008, recent animals at the Ueno Zoo included:
Giant panda (Ling Ling, Ueno's only giant panda, died of chronic heart failure on April 30, 2008, leaving Ueno Zoo without a panda for the first time since 1972.)[1] China has agreed to lend a male and female to Ueno[2].
A Lesser panda (also known as the Red Panda)
Other animals have included the Sumatran tiger the Asiatic lion, the Western lowland gorilla, the Polar bear, the Asian elephant, the Reticulated Giraffe. and the White rhinoceros
[edit]Other animals
The zoo is also often home to zebras, Japanese macaques, red-crowned cranes, White-tailed eagles and King Penguins, along with goats, sheep, pigs, ostriches, and rabbits.
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