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Atlantic Puffin has a Conservation Status under the IUCN of Vulnerable www.iucnredlist.org/species/22694927/132581443
The rain almost looks like snow. It was cool but not that chilly at the famous viewing spot in Elliston, Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland.
These trees look beautiful as they stand in rows, creating such depth with light and lines.
This beauty if man made. None of these trees are old.
This trail followed used to be a road to a town in the middle of the forest. A little mill town. A forest fire whiped out the town and the trees.
People planted these trees closely in rows.
The trees are real, but they are too perfect, a fake perfect.
Vulnerable (VU)
Common name: Hyacinth Macaw
Nome comum: Arara-azul-grande
Scientific name: Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus
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Soon after we arrived at this spot, the Mom rounded up the little ones and moved them into the bushes, so this was a quick snap before that happened. Lions have been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 because populations in African countries have declined by about 43% since the early 1990s.
Success is not final.
Failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to
Continue that counts.
-Winston Churchill
Over the winter I worked on making 2 sets of armor. This one was originally made as a man's armor but I re-purposed pieces so that they would fit Loren's small frame.
She crashed while watching a movie with me. I love how you can see her innocence and her vulnerability in this photo.
Photographed at British wildlife centre.
Hedgehogs are sadly endangered. ptes.org/state-britains-hedgehogs-report-2018/
Do you see Vulnerability or Defiance?
Today is officially something different Friday? :-) So something different from me. I would like to do more shots like these but if I'm honest I found "the body" quite hard a subject to shoot. It belongs together with my other image "Victim or Predator". I hope you like it.
And TFI Friday :-)
EXPLORE FRONT PAGE Wahooo, I can't believe it, I really can't believe it.
Explore #19
The Very Beautiful yet Vulnerable - The Nilgiri Flycatcher (Male)
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@ Coonoor, Nilgiris Dist
Tamil Nadu, India
08 Mar 2022
Description Credit – Birds of the World (The Cornnel Lab) & Wiki
About the Bird - The Nilgiri Flycatcher a Vulnerable Species, is small and somewhat long-tailed flycatcher that is about 10 to 13 centimetres and is found mainly in the higher altitude Shola forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.
The Male is almost entirely deep indigo-blue, except for some violet-blue on the forehead and area over eye and darker lores. The female is duller with dark brown on the upperparts and dark grey below. The two central tail feathers are blue and the lateral feathers are dark brown and edged with indigo. The base of the outer tail feathers are white but this is not easily visible when the bird is sitting. The wing feathers are dark brown with a narrow outer fringe of blue.
With a very restricted range in the hills of Southern India, it is found mainly in the higher altitude Shola Forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris which provide ideal oscillating climate and unique floral structure in the montane ecosystems provide special microclimatic conditions and habitat for the species, and such montane ecosystems are known as ‘sky islands’.
Climate change induced by human activities, restricted range and increased environmental degradation has put this beautiful bird at rink and is making it more and more vulnerable.
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Black Dragon Pool Park
Old Town Of Lijiang
Yunnan Province, People's Republic Of China
"The water that feeds the five-hectare Black Dragon Pool bubbles up
from the foot of Elephant Hill. Here a stone bridge and the elegant
three-tiered Deyue Pavilion offer stunning prospects of the mountain,
trailing a wisp of cloud like a scarf on the breeze" -- Peter Moss
(an excerpt from the book "Lijiang, The Imperiled Utopia")
Eastern Cape, South Africa
IUCN RED LIST STATUS: vulnerable
panthera leo
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lion
Löwe
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Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) named Kartick born ~ 2 years at Woodland Park Zoo and now living in San Diego as part of the Special Survival Plan for their species. Sloth bears are native to the Indian subcontinent and feed on fruits, ants and termites.
San Diego Zoo
Conservation status: Vulnerable
Young cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) born November 2015 to mother "Addison" in litter of six cubs. Part of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's highly successful cheetah breeding program. Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
The Orange-fronted Parakeet or Conure is a medium sized parrot found in along the western coasts of Mexico and Costa Rica. It enjoys eating a variety of foods including seeds, flowers and fruits.
This is an energetic bird that enjoys climbing and playing but it is not known as a good "talker." When properly socialized and given ample opportunity to exercise outside its cage, this bird can make a good pet. Consequently, it is a popular bird for aviculturalists to breed.
Sadly, however, illegal trapping for the pet trade has reduced the numbers of these birds which are now listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.
May 31 has been designated World Parrot Day to recognize this amazing species of birds many of which are endangered.
Now, don't be fooled-- some say that this jungle beauty entices their prey into coming to them...
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“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
Poem:
Cheer up, O grievous snail.
I tap your shell, encouragingly,
not that you will ever know about it.
And I want nothing to do with you, either, sulking toad.
Imagine, at least four times my size and yet so vulnerable.
I could open your belly with my claw.
You glare and bulge, a
watchdog near my pool; you make a loud and hollow noise.
I do not care for such stupidity.
I admire compression, lightness,
and agility, all rare in this loose world.
Because the Sumatran orangutans are only found on one small island, they are especially vulnerable to loss of habitat. Their populations have decreased as their forests are cut for timber and to accommodate increasing human populations in Indonesia. Adult females are also killed for their infants to be sold in the pet trade. Current estimates indicate there are only 20,000 to 30,000 orangutans left in the wild. Conservation efforts coupled with education programs provide the best hope for the future of this species.
GTFO JUST TRYING TO BE NAKED IN THE WOODS CAN'T I GET SOME PRIVACY GEEZ.
So glad these thorny asshole bushes finally came in handy.
A group of us non-lafg2013ers decided to embark on a giant collaboration; the first concept we’re attempting is our greatest fear.
At first I wanted to do something light-hearted about my fear of flies or injections or corn (it’s like a million little rotted teeth on a stick…) but I realized that’s part of my actual big huge mega-fear, vulnerability. Not the physical kind--I don’t doubt my ability or willingness to kick some ass in a pinch--but the emotional sort. And don't get me wrong, strong emotional defenses like humor are important, but I think mine are a little much. Long story shortish I was bullied a cray ton in middle school until I just kind of made a little suit of feels armor for myself and I’ve never really figured out how to strip it in the presence of most people. I swear I go through the same argument with the little voice in my head every single time I interact with anyone; if I let my guard down the other person is free to judge and reject the secret parts of myself that make me a unique human in the clusterfuck of all the other billions.
But then I’m all ‘why do I feel so compelled to let others define my worth’ and then I’m all ’social acceptance is pretty important to the survival of things with brains bro’ but then I’m all ‘I mean that’s a good excuse but literally millions of other people have learned to get past that, what makes me special’ and then I wallow, typically. I mean, basically it’s fear of pain which is practically etched into our skulls from birth, so I know I'm not alone in this, but at the same time just aghajakfgl.
And I know I could have it so much worse. I could be afraid of starvation or disease or my own parents. But in the relative scope of my general insignificance my fear of emotional vulnerability is the thing that keeps me up at night so. Welcome to the most personal photo I’ve ever done, y’all.
And you know. The most publicly naked one.
*******If anyone else out there shares my fear there’s an awesome TED talk on the subject by Brené Brown. Even if you don't, just watch it. It's even funny so none of you have an excuse.
Here's to a more fearless 2013 for everybody :)
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@ Coonoor, Nilgiris Dist
Tamil Nadu, India
Dec 2021
About the Bird (as per Wiki)- The Nilgiri Flycatcher is a small and somewhat long-tailed flycatcher is about 13 cms. As seen in the shot, it is dark steely indigo blue with some violet-blue on the forehead and darker lores.The base of the outer tail feathers are white but this is not easily visible when the bird is sitting. The wing feathers are dark brown with a narrow outer fringe of blue.
With a very restricted range in the hills of southern India, it is found mainly in the higher altitude Shola Forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris which provide ideal oscillating climate and unique floral structure in the montane ecosystems provide special microclimatic conditions and habitat for the species, and such montane ecosystems are known as ‘sky islands’.
Climate change induced by human activities, restricted range and increased environmental degradation has put this beautiful bird at rink and is making it more and more vulnerable.
I shot this the day before the big quake and the resulting tsunami hit Japan. I'm not sure if I will ever look at the ocean the same way again. In some ways this shot reminds me of the world as I remember it on September 10th, 2001. Everything suddenly shifted from the comfort of the mundane to the horror of the unimaginable. I think the world changed on 3/11/2011 just as it did on 9/11/2001.
This aerial view looks north along the Suffolk coast from Thorpeness towards Sizewell. The white dome of Sizewell B nuclear power station is visible in the distance, with construction activity on Sizewell C and offshore working platforms beyond. In the foreground, the village stands beside a narrow shingle beach and low, vulnerable cliffs, with the brightly coloured terrace known as The Headlands forming a distinctive landmark close to the shore.
The photograph records a coastline undergoing unusually rapid change. The cliffs at northern Thorpeness are formed from soft, easily eroded deposits rather than resistant rock. Ordinarily, the shingle beach absorbs much of the force of incoming waves, but the beach has progressively narrowed, lowered and steepened. Higher sea levels and storm tides can therefore carry waves farther up the shore, allowing them to reach the foot of the cliffs and remove supporting material. Once the cliff base has been cut back, sections above can collapse suddenly. Erosion here is consequently irregular: relatively quiet periods may be followed by severe losses during a sequence of storms.
Attempts to protect this part of Thorpeness have a long history. Gabion baskets filled with stone were placed at the foot of the cliffs in 1976. Gravel-filled geotextile bags and other softer defences were added between 2010 and 2012. Following significant storm erosion in 2021, a 35-metre emergency rock revetment was installed. Despite these measures, the beach continued to narrow and the sea increasingly reached both the older defences and the exposed cliff toe.
A house was removed in 2022 after erosion brought it within critical safety limits. Conditions then deteriorated sharply. Between October 2025 and January 2026, ten more properties were removed because the retreating cliff made them unsafe. East Suffolk Council had established monitoring points and safety triggers so that buildings could be dismantled before they collapsed onto the beach. The loss of these homes was not the result of a planned redevelopment: they were demolished because the ground supporting them had been eroded away.
Residents sought permission during 2025 for a privately funded short-term rock defence. However, erosion advanced faster than the original design anticipated. A smaller winter scheme was also considered, but contractors concluded that machinery could not safely gain access and that tidal working conditions made it impracticable. The council has also said that the beach has become so narrow and steep that there is insufficient room for the larger rock scheme previously considered.
Emergency work was eventually undertaken using large rock-filled bags. Residents raised substantial private funds towards the intervention, with public funding also provided. Both phases of the rock-bag scheme were completed in March 2026. The bags are intended to slow erosion and reduce the danger of waves overtopping the shore in front of 24 homes. They are not regarded as a permanent sea wall and are expected to provide protection for only about two to five years, buying time for monitoring, further engineering work and discussions about the future of the affected properties.
The current Shoreline Management Plan describes the approach here as managed realignment with measures intended to slow erosion, rather than an undertaking to hold the existing shoreline indefinitely. In the longer term, the plan anticipates that some defences may have to be removed as the coast continues to adjust. All such policies remain dependent upon engineering feasibility, environmental approval and available funding.
Although the average long-term rate of retreat at Thorpeness has sometimes appeared modest compared with other parts of the Suffolk coast, averages can conceal violent short-term episodes. Beach levels, storms, tides and the movement of shingle all vary considerably. This photograph therefore captures more than a picturesque seaside village: it records a narrow and shifting boundary between homes, farmland and the North Sea, where decades of protection have slowed but not stopped the natural retreat of the coast.
The Great Curassow is a large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests, its range extending from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Male birds are black with curly crests and yellow beaks; females come in three colour morphs, barred, rufous and black.
This species is threatened by loss of habitat and hunting, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "vulnerable". As this is a difficult bird to find in the wild, I went to see this captive female at Hamerton Zoo which specialises in rare and endangered animals.