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Animal ambassador cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) named "Bakka" at the San Diego Zoo. Conservation status: vulnerable
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Beautiful Vulnerability
by
Lucy Godden
Wide eyed you take shelter
Under the boughs of this tall tree,
In the pale moonlight darkness,
You struggle to see
Pointed branches,
You catch a glimpse of the way,
The direction is yours,
In the shrill wind you sway
Each day a new leaf,
you grow, you grow,
'Til eventualy a tall elm,
The unquenched need to know
Your roots will always lead you back to me,
From the seed that has sprouted,
Your beautiful vulnerability.
Conservation status: population is decreasing due to invasive alien vegetation, harvesting of cut flowers and habitat loss due to land transformation.
Common names: Needle-leaf pincushion, Narrow-leaf pincushion, Tangerine pincushion, Assegaaibos pincushion; Smalblaarspeldekussing, Luisiesbos (Afrikaans).
Botanical name: Leucospermum lineare
Family: Proteaceae.
Taken at Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa.
A shy and elusive bird, the mountain peacock-pheasant is endemic to montane forests of the central Malay Peninsula.Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size and limited range, the mountain peacock-pheasant is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
An adult male sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) basks in the open in his conspicuous breeding colours. Not only is he vulnerable to predators such as kestrels but he is also on a particular scrap of heath that requires urgent management (although a small amount was done last winter) to prevent gorse encroachment. Five years ago I recorded around 60 animals in less than half one hectare, yesterday numbers seen were around 10% of that. Taken during a licensed survey, and the individual lizard was not disturbed.
lots of variety here...purple swamphens, black-winged stilts, which are residents, Eurasian teal and Garganey which are winter visitors, and the raptor, a marsh harrier...
Hair - TRUTH HAIR - Avena
Eyeliner - -Glam Affair - Prezioso Eyes Makeup - 03
Lipstick - Zibska - Ricana 36
Double Moles - DA - Monroe Left + Medium Under Eye Right
Eyelashes - .: Mai Bilavio :. Holiday Edition Lashes
Eyes - IKON Eternal Eyes - Earth (M)
Blindfold - Zibska - Xiang
Collar - **RE** - ReVox Avo Tokon
Bracelets and cuff - **RE** - ReVox Avo
Thong - *MUKA* - Wicca Thong
Leg wraps - fri. - Reverie.Wraps
Wings - Blueberry - Oakley Wings (@ Epiphany)
Pose - Amici -Modesty 1
in response to Jennifer Belthoff's poem......"let the sun shine in"
sunflowers131.blogspot.com/2011/07/darkness-taking-over.html
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. ~Walter Anderson
With sincere, undying graditude to my husband for taking me as I am, breaking down the wall of protection around my heart, and allowing me to trust again. Your unconditional love for me has brought a depth of healing you may not ever fully comprehend.
For 365 and FGR's group pick Black and White Self Portraits.
View On Black I never thought I would say that, but it does look cool.
Now I love my stages of vulnerability because in life I have to allow myself to be in situations where I could fail, but to be in this place feeling completely comfortable, without fear or any worries and be aware that things may not work out as I planned or want them to but instead of this being a reason for me to not move forward for it to be a motivation because it is allowing me to experience something new, it is only when I leave my comfort zones that I truly grow and evolve and learn something new about myself and the world we live in. And for me most importantly this is an aspect of love, of applying love into my daily life, I always want to keep an open heart and an open mind & if I were to instead close myself off to every experience, every situation that made me feel a little vulnerable or because of the chance that I might fail would be like I’m closing myself off to love completely and that is something that I never ever want to do, I always want to be open to love.
(hello everyone i hope you are all having a beautiful day, sorry i've been a bit crap at getting back to everyone but i've been writing and creating and coming up with ideas...and have kind of been in another world...but i am here, just in more of a reflective mood:-) love, peace and freedom to everyone!! i am so grateful and thankful for all of you, you guys really inspire me:-)xx
Sculpture by Seward Johnson. Inspired by the painting "Olympia" by Édouard Manet. (Grounds for Sculpture)
i was always kind of scared when we were alone
my open arms, they were so vulnerable
they were extended - fragile and thin
just pulling you in.
you tried to hold on
but then you let go
why was i
so vulnerable
Hummingbirds are very territorial and they often attack each other using their beaks as swords.Once I saw one pin another on the ground standing on his wings while he poked him in his chest with his beak.
Green-crowned brilliant
Heliodoxa jacula
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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inspired by Lexi
taken on my old point and shoot
first time I've taken a real self portrait since the summertime
taken while ill, in the early hours of the morning
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Okavango Delta
Botswana
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is the largest living terrestrial animal with bulls reaching a shoulder height of up to 4 m (13 ft). Both sexes have tusks, which erupt when they are 1–3 years old and grow throughout life.
It is distributed across 37 African countries and inhabits forests, grasslands and woodlands, wetlands and agricultural land. It is a social mammal, traveling in herds composed of cows and their offspring. Adult bulls usually live alone or in small bachelor groups. It is a herbivore, feeding on grasses, creepers, herbs, leaves and bark.
Since 2004, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. It is threatened foremost by habitat destruction, and in parts of its range also by poaching for meat and ivory.
They can weigh 7 t (7.7 short tons). The heaviest male on record weighed 10.4 t (11.5 short tons) and was shot in 1974 in Angola. Females are much smaller at about 2.2–2.6 m (7.2–8.5 ft) tall at the shoulder and up to 4 t (4.4 short tons) in weight. – Wikipedia
This is my black. I alone
Am the authority, and I know no further
Than I've got, if that be anywhere.
I inherited no maps.
~U.A.Fanthorpe~
Grulla del Paraíso, Blue Crane, Grus paradisea.
IUCN: Vulnerable (Vu)
Especie # 1150
Ouplaas
Western Cape
South Africa
The silence was deafening as I waited and watched for the decisive moment. Then in the briefest of moments and what felt to be a second of vulnerability, Joe paused while putting on her chinks.
Have you ever found a new interest in something and it completely over takes your thinking and basically how you view the world and all in it?
Well that has happened to me. Before I started going to the zoo I had very limited knowledge about wildlife and what it meant for an animal to be endangered or vulnerable.
I was even of the mind set, that zoo's are bad but now that I have taken the time to get to know and expand my thinking I realise that zoo's and I speak of those who treat their animals right, are a massive part of the conservation of a species.
And although we and I know I would love to see them free and in the wild I also see the benefit of them being in a zoo.
To think that there are only 7000 or so cheetahs actually left in the wild is horrifying to think these beautiful animals could become extinct.
Better to be hated than love, love, loved for what you're not
I thought about cutting my chin out but somehow I liked it in the end like this.
Next week's gonna be better, I hope. Late Happy Easter wishes to you all.
Ah and sharpness is absolutely sooc in here, I only edited the black&white.
Week 15