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The Saunders's Gull is named after British ornithologist, Howard Saunders; and it's status is classified by the IUCN as "Vulnerable".
Lighting: Natural Light plus LumoPro 180 to camera right
Model: Alessandra Zagame (MM#3154678)
Constructive criticism is very welcome
This was one of my first portraits taken some 13 or 14 years ago.I found the negs after i started actually filing some of mine rather than leaving them hanging for awhile!
I am yet to feel more vulnerable than that of when a male african elephant in musth decides that your microscopic vw citi golf is an object at which to charge. I swear he could hear my heart beating loud and clear. There is a fine line between sitting and letting him explore you and (hopefully) pass on by, and turning on the car and speeding off (which can indeed make it worse by spooking him).
In the presence of the elephants, you truly feel powerless but in absolute awe.
Daily Shoot: Illustrate coldness in a photograph today.
Somebody's bed in a street corner in central London. To me it represented the coldness of society at large to allow this to happen, the coldness of passers-by, most of whom go by totally oblivious, let alone the coldness of the night for this vulnerably accommodated individual.
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Oxfam has been distributing hygiene kits and cash grants to vulnerable families sheltering in evacuation centres in Angono. The kits include items such as sleeping mats, soap, underwear and sanitary towels, as well as jerry cans to collect and store water in. These are also accompanied by small cash grants of 1,000 pesos (US$20) to help families purchase supplies and replace the items they lost in the floods.
At the distribution I visit on 21 October, Oxfam is providing support to around 450 households, or approximately 2,250 people. The distribution is carried out with our local partner Sikhay who visited the site the day before to distribute special coupons to those previously identified with the help of community leaders as being most in need of support.
Recipients line up in groups to hand in their coupons and sign for the goods before collecting their hygiene kits and then moving on to collect the cash grants after a second verification check. Pregnant and elderly women are given priority and selected to go first.
Photo credit: Jerry Carreon/Oxfam
5"x5.5" scratchboard of a baby gorilla. This piece was exhibited in a Society of Animal Artist Small Works Show in 2008.
Pastor Bernd Siggelkow and his team fighting poverty, in particular that of children, in Germany. Here in Berlin-Hellersdorf, children can come and get something warm to eat, clothing, help with homework or just hang out with friends all under the umbrella of Bernd, a pastor who has made it his mission to help those most vulnerable in society.
On November 13, 2017
Monarelief's ground crew carried out a new mission of helping most vulnerable families in Yemen. Our project this time was in Hodeidah in western Yemen, where there is 100000s families living under the poverty line and they can't find any resource to feed their families.
Our project to feed 500 families with urgent food aid was funded by Ikhwan Thabet Company in Hodeidah governorate.
Our mission this time wasn't easy but it was very hard, due to the complicated situation in the governorate and we spent almost a day trying to find a place to gather beneficiaries in and in order to be able to deliver them the food supply, but no one allowed us do so.
Finally, we resorted to choosing the area of the culture center which was hit this year by Saudi jets, destroying the whole center, forcing all employees there to lose their job.
During our food delivery, we heard several stories which they are reflecting the suffer of most families in the city. Our food supply delivered to families from al-Haly, Al-Hawak and al-Mayna'a districts of Hodeidah. Our volunteers work hard to find these 500 families within the 3 districts of Hodeidah.
Pictures showing you the destructions occurred by Saudi regime in the Culture Center.
Some stories we heard during the distribution process in Hodeidah.
People's needs are high comparing to what we are delivering. if we reached out 500 families with food supply but there is many others couldn't be reached out because our capability is limited and the needs are high in Hodeidah in western Yemen.
"If I have enough food in my home. I won't be here," she says. Most food aid delivered by Int'l NGOs didn't reach out the most needy families. Most people I met during @monarelief's last distribution in Hodeidah complaining and repeating the same.
Another woman told her story.
"I have got this bread from many places today," showing me her bag.
Believe me my son if I have anything inside my home to feed my 9-member family, I won't be now here in front of you begging u 2 help me.'' We are not able to continue. she says Hodeidah.
Once before happened in front of me and today the same thing has repeated again. People in Hodeidah in western #Yemen are hungry and they are fighting each other to get food. That is unfortunately, is completely true but could hear their voice.
The story of people in Hodeidah saying that there is many and many families who they don't have any idea how to get food to feed their children, I have seen many people begging to just get anything from the others. #Yemen
Here is one picture of many others pictures for the destructions committed by Saudi regime in #Yemen
Pic taken by @monarelief during food aid delivery funded by Ikhawn Thabet Group and carried out today at Culture Center in Hodeidah governorate in western #Yemen
the towering skyscrapers and dense urban landscape of manhattan look so much more vulnerable from the vantage point of the staten island ferry...
On November 13, 2017
Monarelief's ground crew carried out a new mission of helping most vulnerable families in Yemen. Our project this time was in Hodeidah in western Yemen, where there is 100000s families living under the poverty line and they can't find any resource to feed their families.
Our project to feed 500 families with urgent food aid was funded by Ikhwan Thabet Company in Hodeidah governorate.
Our mission this time wasn't easy but it was very hard, due to the complicated situation in the governorate and we spent almost a day trying to find a place to gather beneficiaries in and in order to be able to deliver them the food supply, but no one allowed us do so.
Finally, we resorted to choosing the area of the culture center which was hit this year by Saudi jets, destroying the whole center, forcing all employees there to lose their job.
During our food delivery, we heard several stories which they are reflecting the suffer of most families in the city. Our food supply delivered to families from al-Haly, Al-Hawak and al-Mayna'a districts of Hodeidah. Our volunteers work hard to find these 500 families within the 3 districts of Hodeidah.
Pictures showing you the destructions occurred by Saudi regime in the Culture Center.
Some stories we heard during the distribution process in Hodeidah.
People's needs are high comparing to what we are delivering. if we reached out 500 families with food supply but there is many others couldn't be reached out because our capability is limited and the needs are high in Hodeidah in western Yemen.
"If I have enough food in my home. I won't be here," she says. Most food aid delivered by Int'l NGOs didn't reach out the most needy families. Most people I met during @monarelief's last distribution in Hodeidah complaining and repeating the same.
Another woman told her story.
"I have got this bread from many places today," showing me her bag.
Believe me my son if I have anything inside my home to feed my 9-member family, I won't be now here in front of you begging u 2 help me.'' We are not able to continue. she says Hodeidah.
Once before happened in front of me and today the same thing has repeated again. People in Hodeidah in western #Yemen are hungry and they are fighting each other to get food. That is unfortunately, is completely true but could hear their voice.
The story of people in Hodeidah saying that there is many and many families who they don't have any idea how to get food to feed their children, I have seen many people begging to just get anything from the others. #Yemen
Here is one picture of many others pictures for the destructions committed by Saudi regime in #Yemen
Pic taken by @monarelief during food aid delivery funded by Ikhawn Thabet Group and carried out today at Culture Center in Hodeidah governorate in western #Yemen
On December 21st , 2016
Mona Relief ground crew delivered for the third time urgent aid to vulnerable families in Wadi Ahmed Area in Sana'a.
Today's mission targeted 100 families there with blankets funded by a local donor and dignity kits funded by IOM Yemen.
Our humanitarian work was covered by local and international media outlets.
Pictures here showing you the real situation of families there.
Facts about Wadi Ahmed area
Wadi Ahmed in the capital Sana'a is located in eastern Sana'a and it is the most populated area in the capital Sana'a.
This area is a full of many vulnerable families and IDPs, who fled from Sa'ada, Taiz and Hajjeh governorates to this area. Most families there are under the level of poverty line, they don't have enough food, or clean water and they don't have any kid of furniture such as beds or blankets, children there are in dire need for everything, they don't have clothes or shoes to wear as most pictures showing you the real situation of families there.
In brief, the Wadi Ahmed area is a full of diseases and most children there don't receive any kind of health care services or any kind of education. I have seen many disabled who living in a very bad situation.
Mona Relief's volunteers conducted a survey for most needy families and IDPs, when we could entered to most houses in that area we shocked for the situation of families there.
Cryptocarya foetida
Family Lauraceae
Common name: Stinking Cryptocarya
Threatened species: NSW TSCA: Vulnerable ROTAP: 3VCi
Small to medium-sized tree.. Leaves ovate, elliptic to obovate, margins entire, both surfaces bald, lower surface paler . Petiole present.Fruit globular, purple to black.
Littoral rainforest .
NSW Qld
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Indische neushoorn of pantserneushoorn (Rhinoceros
unicornis)
Blijdorp, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Conservation status: Vulnerable
Skull of binturong at Oxford Museum of Natural History.
Arctictis binturong (Raffles, 1821)
Viverridae
Carnivora
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Treasures of the Tweed Mural Project Flickr Group
Family : Strigidae
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Murwillumbah - Threatened Plants
Murwillumbah - Threatened Animals
Please Note
All Images painted by Co-ordinating artist David Adams and other assistant artists as part of the Tweed Shire Council's federally funded Treasures of the Tweed Mural Project 2008-2010.
The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is one of the largest species of snakes. It is native to a large area of Southeast Asia and is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Until 2009, it was considered a subspecies of the Indian python, but is now recognized as a distinct species. It is an invasive species in Florida as a result of the pet trade.
The Burmese python is a dark-colored non-venomous snake with many brown blotches bordered by black down the back. In the wild, Burmese pythons typically grow to 5 m (16 ft), while specimens of more than 7 m (23 ft) are unconfirmed. This species is sexually dimorphic in size; females average only slightly longer, but are considerably heavier and bulkier than the males. For example, length-weight comparisons in captive Burmese pythons for individual females have shown: at 3.47 m (11 ft 5 in) length, a specimen weighed 29 kg (64 lb), a specimen of just over 4 m (13 ft) weighed 36 kg (79 lb), a specimen of 4.5 m (15 ft) weighed 40 kg (88 lb), and a specimen of 5 m (16 ft) weighed 75 kg (165 lb). In comparison, length-weight comparisons for males found: a specimen of 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) weighed 12 kg (26 lb), 2.97 m (9 ft 9 in) weighed 14.5 kg (32 lb), a specimen of 3 m (9.8 ft) weighed 7 kg (15 lb), and a specimen of 3.05 m (10.0 ft) weighed 18.5 kg (41 lb). In general, individuals over 5 m (16 ft) are rare. The record for maximum length of a Burmese python is 5.79 m (19 ft 0 in) and was caught 10 July 2023 in South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. Widely published data of specimens reported to have been several feet longer are not verified. At her death, a Burmese named "Baby" was the heaviest snake recorded in the world at the time at 182.8 kg (403 lb), much heavier than any wild snake ever measured. Her length was measured at 5.74 m (18 ft 10 in) circa 1999. The minimum size for adults is 2.35 m (7 ft 9 in). Dwarf forms occur in Java, Bali, and Sulawesi, with an average length of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in Bali, and a maximum of 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) on Sulawesi. Wild individuals average 3.7 m (12 ft) long, but have been known to reach 5.79 m (19 ft 0 in).
In both their native and invasive range they suffer from Raillietiella orientalis (a pentastome parasitic disease).
The Burmese python occurs throughout Southern and Southeast Asia, including eastern India, southeastern Nepal, western Bhutan, southeastern Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, northern continental Malaysia, and southern China in Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, and Yunnan. It also occurs in Hong Kong, and in Indonesia on Java, southern Sulawesi, Bali, and Sumbawa. It has also been reported in Kinmen.
It is an excellent swimmer and needs a permanent source of water. It lives in grasslands, marshes, swamps, rocky foothills, woodlands, river valleys, and jungles with open clearings. It is a good climber and has a prehensile tail. It can stay in water for 30 minutes but mostly stays on land.
Python invasion has been particularly extensive, notably across South Florida, where a large number of pythons can now be found in the Florida Everglades. Between 1996 and 2006, the Burmese python gained popularity in the pet trade, with more than 90,000 snakes imported into the U.S. The current number of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades may have reached a minimum viable population and become an invasive species. Hurricane Andrew in 1992 was deemed responsible for the destruction of a python-breeding facility and zoo, and these escaped snakes spread and populated areas into the Everglades. More than 1,330 have been captured in the Everglades. A genetic study in 2017 revealed that the python population is composed of hybrids between the Burmese python and Indian python. The species also displays cytonuclear discordance which has made phylogenetic studies of its origin more complicated.
By 2007, the Burmese python was found in northern Florida and in the coastal areas of the Florida Panhandle. The importation of Burmese pythons was banned in the United States in January 2012 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. A 2012 report stated, "in areas where the snakes are well established, foxes, and rabbits have disappeared. Sightings of raccoons are down by 99.3%, opossums by 98.9%, and white-tailed deer by 94.1%." Road surveys between 2003 and 2011 indicated an 87.3% decrease in bobcat populations, and in some areas rabbits have not been detected at all. Experimental efforts to reintroduce rabbit populations to areas where rabbits have been eliminated have mostly failed "due to high (77% of mortalities) rates of predation by pythons." Bird and coyote populations may be threatened, as well as the already-rare Florida panther. In addition to this correlational relationship, the pythons have also been experimentally shown to decrease marsh rabbit populations, further suggesting they are responsible for many of the recorded mammal declines. They may also outcompete native predators for food.
For example, Burmese pythons also compete with the native American alligator, and numerous instances of alligators and pythons attacking—and in some cases, preying on—each other have been reported and recorded.
By 2011, researchers identified up to 25 species of birds from nine avian orders in the digestive tract remains of 85 Burmese pythons found in Everglades National Park. Native bird populations are suffering a negative impact from the introduction of the Burmese python in Florida; among these bird species, the wood stork is of specific concern, now listed as federally endangered.
Numerous efforts have been made to eliminate the Burmese python population in the last decade. Understanding the preferred habitat of the species is needed to narrow down the python hunt. Burmese pythons have been found to select broad-leafed and low-flooded habitats. Broad-leafed habitats comprise cypress, overstory, and coniferous forest. Though aquatic marsh environments would be a great source for prey, the pythons seem to prioritize environments allowing for morphological and behavioral camouflage to be protected from predators. Also, the Burmese pythons in Florida have been found to prefer elevated habitats, since this provides the optimal conditions for nesting. In addition to elevated habitats, edge habitats are common places where Burmese pythons are found for thermoregulation, nesting, and hunting purposes.
One of the Burmese python eradication movements with the biggest influence was the 2013 Florida Python Challenge. This was a month-long contest wherein a total of 68 pythons were removed. The contest offered incentives such as prizes for longest and greatest number of captured pythons. The purpose of the challenge was to raise awareness about the invasive species, increase participation from the public and agency cooperation, and to remove as many pythons as possible from the Florida Everglades. The challenge has run a few times again since then and is now an annual event over the duration of ten days. Recently, in 2023, it resulted in 209 pythons removed by 1,050 participants.
A study from 2017 introduced a new method for identifying the presence of Burmese pythons in southern Florida; this method involves the screening of mosquito blood. Since the introduction of the Burmese python in Florida, mosquito communities use the pythons as hosts even though they are recently introduced.
Invasive Burmese pythons also face certain physiological changes. Unlike their native South Asian counterparts who spend long periods fasting due to seasonal variation in prey availability, pythons in Florida feed year-round due to the constant availability of food. They are also vulnerable to cold stress, with winter freezes resulting in mortality rates of up to 90%. Genomic data suggests natural selection on these populations favors increased thermal tolerance as a result of these high-mortality freezes.
They have carried Raillietiella orientalis, a pentastome parasitic disease, with them from Southeast Asia. Other reptiles in Florida have become infested, and the parasite appears to have become endemic.
In April 2019, researchers captured and killed a large Burmese python in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. It was more than 5.2 m (17 ft) long, weighed 64 kg (140 lb), and contained 73 developing eggs. In December 2021, a Burmese python was captured in Florida that weighed 98 kg (215 lb) and had a length of 5.5 m (18 ft); it contained a record 122 developing eggs. In July 2023, local hunters captured and killed a 5.8 m (19 ft) long Burmese python that weighed 57 kg (125 lb) in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve.
Burmese pythons are mainly nocturnal rainforest dwellers. When young, they are equally at home on the ground and in trees, but as they gain girth, they tend to restrict most of their movements to the ground. They are also excellent swimmers, being able to stay submerged for up to half an hour. Burmese pythons spend the majority of their time hidden in the underbrush. In the northern parts of its range, the Burmese python may brumate for some months during the cold season in a hollow tree, a hole in the riverbank, or under rocks. Brumation is biologically distinct from hibernation. While the behavior has similar benefits, allowing organisms to endure the winter without moving, it also involves the preparation of both male and female reproductive organs for the upcoming breeding season. The Florida population also goes through brumation.
They tend to be solitary and are usually found in pairs only when mating. Burmese pythons breed in the early spring, with females laying clutches of 12–36 eggs in March or April. They remain with the eggs until they hatch, wrapping around them and twitching their muscles in such a way as to raise the ambient temperature around the eggs by several degrees. Once the hatchlings use their egg tooth to cut their way out of their eggs, no further maternal care is given. The newly hatched babies often remain inside their eggs until they are ready to complete their first shedding of skin, after which they hunt for their first meal.
On November 13, 2017
Monarelief's ground crew carried out a new mission of helping most vulnerable families in Yemen. Our project this time was in Hodeidah in western Yemen, where there is 100000s families living under the poverty line and they can't find any resource to feed their families.
Our project to feed 500 families with urgent food aid was funded by Ikhwan Thabet Company in Hodeidah governorate.
Our mission this time wasn't easy but it was very hard, due to the complicated situation in the governorate and we spent almost a day trying to find a place to gather beneficiaries in and in order to be able to deliver them the food supply, but no one allowed us do so.
Finally, we resorted to choosing the area of the culture center which was hit this year by Saudi jets, destroying the whole center, forcing all employees there to lose their job.
During our food delivery, we heard several stories which they are reflecting the suffer of most families in the city. Our food supply delivered to families from al-Haly, Al-Hawak and al-Mayna'a districts of Hodeidah. Our volunteers work hard to find these 500 families within the 3 districts of Hodeidah.
Pictures showing you the destructions occurred by Saudi regime in the Culture Center.
Some stories we heard during the distribution process in Hodeidah.
People's needs are high comparing to what we are delivering. if we reached out 500 families with food supply but there is many others couldn't be reached out because our capability is limited and the needs are high in Hodeidah in western Yemen.
"If I have enough food in my home. I won't be here," she says. Most food aid delivered by Int'l NGOs didn't reach out the most needy families. Most people I met during @monarelief's last distribution in Hodeidah complaining and repeating the same.
Another woman told her story.
"I have got this bread from many places today," showing me her bag.
Believe me my son if I have anything inside my home to feed my 9-member family, I won't be now here in front of you begging u 2 help me.'' We are not able to continue. she says Hodeidah.
Once before happened in front of me and today the same thing has repeated again. People in Hodeidah in western #Yemen are hungry and they are fighting each other to get food. That is unfortunately, is completely true but could hear their voice.
The story of people in Hodeidah saying that there is many and many families who they don't have any idea how to get food to feed their children, I have seen many people begging to just get anything from the others. #Yemen
Here is one picture of many others pictures for the destructions committed by Saudi regime in #Yemen
Pic taken by @monarelief during food aid delivery funded by Ikhawn Thabet Group and carried out today at Culture Center in Hodeidah governorate in western #Yemen
Mounted spectral tarsiers at Natural History Museum at Tring, Herts.
Tarsius tarsier (Erxleben, 1777)
Tarsiidae
Primates
Anxiety and Vulnerability
Wow, on this past Sunday, I had a beautiful moment of Anxiety and Vulnerability. That sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it. Anxiety is not beautiful and vulnerability blows chunks. Honestly, I had had a relaxing day.
Sunday's are my "non-parenting" days. I don't cook, clean, or parent (hahahaha). This is a day of rest, reflection, and sometimes organization. I catch up on emails, menus for the week, organize a closet or two, church, and just relaxation. This particular Sunday, I tackled shaving my dog.
As the day wore on, nothing out of the ordinary was happening. I was noticing our new mattress isn't as good as it was. My room needs to be dealt with but I didn't want too. I took a shower, wrote for my blog, and pet my critters.
Then, about 10, I asked Bart to bring me up something to drink. We sat for a minute and talked about the upcoming week. He followed me into the bathroom and we chatted more. As he was sitting on my stool and I on the pot, cause why not, I began to feel anxiety wash up over me.
Past Me
In the past, I would push it down and ignore it. There is no way on God's green earth I would disclose what I was feeling to Bart. Show no emotion. Show no fear. Show no weakness. Wait till you are alone as to not burden him or have him look at you with that thought of I am crazy.
Present Me
This time, however, I let it all hangout.
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