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SIMBA CUB. “Simba” is not just some Disney name folks; it’s the Swahili word for “lion” 😀 But the lyrics to the “Circle of Life” song are Zulu. “Nants ingonyama bagathi baba...Sithi uhhmm ingonyama...” Meaning “Here comes a Lion. Yes! It’s a lion!” Who’s excited for The Lion King this summer?
Model: Simba
Mood: interrested
Light: ambient (cloudy)
Lens: Tamron 2.8 / 70-200
Mein Gott, es ist voller Sterne!
Oh my God! – it's full of stars!
Oh ! mon Dieu ! C’est plein d’étoiles !
Mijn God, het zit vol sterren!
Good morning and Happy Monday! Let's make it an amazing week. This fella was chilling in the crater floor of Ngorongoro, with a backdrop of canyon wall behind him.
From the series "INTO AFRICA"
Simba erwacht nach einem kurzen Nickerchen auf ihrem ersten Raumflug.
Simba se réveille après une courte sieste lors de sa premier vol spatial.
Simba wordt wakker na een kort dutje tijdens haar eerste ruimtevlucht.
Simba awakens after a short nap on her first space flight.
Just messing around with PP a little - to be honest, the background was a bit boring.
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
By Dereck Joubert, for National Geographic, in Duba Plains,
Botswana. Published August 5, 2013.
Lions are one of the most iconic animals on the planet. They play starring roles in the art of hundreds of cultures, in literature from history books to fairytales and are, of course, one of the biggest draws of tourists to the African continent. However, they are disappearing from the wild at an astonishingly rapid rate. Lions have disappeared from 90 percent of their historic range due to habitat loss, hunting and poaching, retaliatory killings by livestock owners, loss of prey and other factors. In the 1950s, the best estimate of the world's lion population was 450,000. Today, studies point to 20,000 to 30,000 lions remaining. We've lost 95 percent of lions in the last 50 years. Today, there are only about 20,000; lions are extinct in 26 African countries.
Though lions are such a big part of the human consciousness across the planet, we are at risk of the species entirely disappearing from the grasslands where they roam. These big cats are part of a much bigger ecosystem, one in which humans play a significant role. That role can be shifted from one that is causing lion populations to dwindle toward extinction, to one that creates strategies for coexisting with and protecting this important and magnificent predator. The loss, or even reduction in numbers, of lions in an ecosystem can set off something caused a "trophic cascade" in which the change in predator population has effects across the food web and ecosystem.
Buffalo would become dominant and, absent the lion threat, would be content to stay in one place, making them more vulnerable to existence-threatening parasites. Predators keep prey vital.
Financially, ecotourism generates around $80 billion a year for Africa, which feeds into local communities and economies. Few people I know would bother coming on safari if they knew they would not see the king of the beasts.
As those tourism dollars diminished, so too would the will of the people to protect and grow national parks to preserve wildlife. Poor, sick people are not conservationists.
Without lions, expect increased poverty, poor health, poaching, desperation, and greater pressure on Western countries to support Africa via aid programs. So saving these animals should be a global mandate.
"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction." -- E. O. Wilson
This image was captured in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
From the series "INTO AFRICA"
Esta foto es parte de la exposición 'Mirada africana' celebrada en Barcelona.
Locales y fechas:
Starbucks Coffee - C/ Muntaner, 239 Barcelona - Del 17/12/11 al 10/03/12.
Casa Orlandai - C/ Jaume Piquet, 23 Barcelona - Del 13/03/12 al 11/05/12.
Àgora CN - C/ València, 63 Barcelona - Del 04/07/12 al 21/09/12.
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
― Ansel Adams
While it is not natural for me to assess my own photos in terms of "greatness" or not, what I do hope the viewer can tell from my images, is how I feel about the subject. In this case, can you tell how I feel about lions?
From the series "INTO AFRICA"
cachorrinho mais bravo não existe !! E atentado , só obedece mesmo meu pai , não sei porque quando ele tá aprontando é so eu gritar pai ele sai correndo ! hahah. ♥
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
By Dereck Joubert, for National Geographic, in Duba Plains,
Botswana. Published August 5, 2013.
Lions are one of the most iconic animals on the planet. They play starring roles in the art of hundreds of cultures, in literature from history books to fairytales and are, of course, one of the biggest draws of tourists to the African continent. However, they are disappearing from the wild at an astonishingly rapid rate. Lions have disappeared from 90 percent of their historic range due to habitat loss, hunting and poaching, retaliatory killings by livestock owners, loss of prey and other factors. They are extinct in 26 African countries. In the 1950s, the best estimate of the world's lion population was 450,000. Today, studies point to 20,000 to 30,000 lions remaining. We've lost 95 percent of lions in the last 70 years.
Though lions are such a big part of the human consciousness across the planet, we are at risk of the species entirely disappearing from the grasslands where they roam. These big cats are part of a much bigger ecosystem, one in which humans play a significant role. That role can be shifted from one that is causing lion populations to dwindle toward extinction, to one that creates strategies for coexisting with and protecting this important and magnificent predator. The loss, or even reduction in numbers, of lions in an ecosystem can set off something caused a "trophic cascade" in which the change in predator population has effects across the food web and ecosystem.
Buffalo would become dominant and, absent the lion threat, would be content to stay in one place, making them more vulnerable to existence-threatening parasites. Predators keep prey vital.
Financially, ecotourism generates around $80 billion a year for Africa, which feeds into local communities and economies. Few people I know would bother coming on safari if they knew they would not see the king of the beasts.
As those tourism dollars diminished, so too would the will of the people to protect and grow national parks to preserve wildlife. Poor, sick people are not conservationists.
Without lions, expect increased poverty, poor health, poaching, desperation, and greater pressure on Western countries to support Africa via aid programs. So saving these animals should be a global mandate.