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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus; Female) on melting Sea ice, Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic National Park
Russia in 2009 declared the High Arctic archipelago Franz Josef Land, including a former nature reserve in the same area as well as the Northern part of Novaya Zemlya, as "Russian Arctic National Park". Its total area is 14,260 km2, including 6,320 km2 on the land and 7,940 km2 of the Arctic Oce ...
By Peter Prokosch
White Shark Tourism, Gaansbaai, Western Cape, South Africa
Gaansbaai is famous for its White Shark and Souther Right Whale tourism, which is a key job provider for the community. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust is an example of "Linking Tourism & Conservation", where tour operators support the management of the protected sea bird and seal islands an ...
By Peter Prokosch
Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Gaansbaai, Western Cape, South Africa
The great white shark, is a large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. It is known for its size, with the largest individuals known to have approached or exceeded 6 metres in length,[3] and 2,268 kilograms in weight. The great white shark is arguably the world's ...
By Peter Prokosch
Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, dry forest, South-West Madagascar
The Tsimanampetsotsa National Park with its salt lake and dry spiny forests comprises 430 km2 and has been protected already in 1927 due to its biological meaning (high endemism of species). The calcareous plateau is covered with dense xerophilous thickets, baobabs and banyan trees.
By Peter Prokosch
Natural forest cover with starting deforestation in south-west Madagascar
Madagascar is among the world's poorest countries. As such, people's day-to-day survival is dependent upon natural resource use. They must live off the land that surrounds them, making use of whatever resources they can find. Their poverty costs the country and the world through the loss of the ...
By Peter Prokosch
Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophrys, Antarctic Peninsular
The Black-browed Albatross or Black-browed Mollymawk, Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae, and it is the most widespread and common albatross. Declines may be attributable to increased longline fishing effort and/or the development of new longline fis ...
By Peter Prokosch
Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) on iceberg, Antarctic Peninsula
Adélie penguins are named after the wife of the French Antarctic explorer Dumont d'Urville. They breed in very large colonies, often 20,000 - 30,000 birds, sometimes more than 100,000, all around the Antarctic continent. Adélies are shallow divers feeding mainly on krill and other euphausiids. T ...
By Peter Prokosch
Sea eagle safari, Trollfjord, Lofoten/Vesterålen, Norway
The Trollfjord (Trollfjorden) is a 2 km long sidearm of the Raftsund between the Norwegian archipelagos of Lofoten and Vesterålen. With its narrow entrance and steep-sided mountains, Trollfjord cuts westwards from the Raftsundet strait. It is one of the most scenic fjords in Northern Norway, vis ...
By Peter Prokosch
Polar bear on sea ice, its prime habitat, Svalbard
More than any other animal, the polar bear, Ursus maritimus, is recognized as the symbol of the Arctic. With white fur and a sub-skin blubber providing insulation, the polar bear has adapted to live in severe cold conditions. The polar bear finds the majority of its prey on the sea ice – mostly ...
By Peter Prokosch
Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus,) Porsanger Fjord
The Horned Grebe or Slavonian Grebe, Podiceps auritus, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It appears in Northern Norway (here at a breeding site at the Porsanger fjord) when in May the lake ice is opening. The Slavonian Grebe is a migratory bird, which depends on an ecological netw ...
By Peter Prokosch
Red Knots (Calidris canutus islandica,) feeding at Porsanger Fjord, Northern Norway
Of the six subspecies of Red Knot, one is now stable, four are in decline, and the trend in the sixth population is unclear. These declines can be attributed to the loss of important feeding areas and food sources along its migration routes. Both C. c. canutus and C. c. islandica, for example, a ...
By Peter Prokosch
Tropical butterfly, Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica
By Peter Prokosch
Red Knot (Calidris Canutus), Porsanger, Norway
The shorebird migration season is defined by the weather. Birds fly just behind the 35°F isotherm line, meaning that as they fly, they stay within a particular temperature range throughout the journey, effectively following the weather. This explains why peak migration dates may vary from y ...
By Peter Prokosch
Taimyr Coastline
The Taimyr Autominous Area occupies 800,000 sq km, an area the size of England, France and the Netherlands combined. Only 3% of the subsurface here has been studied but there are believed to be healthy reserves of coal, oil, gas, copper, titanium, complex metal ores, mercury, graphite and iron i ...
By Peter Prokosch
Krossfjorden, Svalbard
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA 2004) predicts an average 5-7 degree rise in temperature in Arctic regions by the year 2100. Krossfjorden is on the West coast of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelagio, and meets Kongsfjorden at the mouth, near Ny-Ålesund. Kongsfjorden has received ...
By Peter Prokosch
Dog sled team at rest on sea ice
The Greenland sled dog and Inuit sled dog are primitive ancestors. The Greenland breed was brought to the country by Thule Culture in 1100 A.D. and has been isolated on the island ever since.
By Lawrence Hislop
Old whale bone providing fertile conditions for vascular plants, Antarctic Peninsula
Nutrients which seep out of whale bones fertilise plants, leading to an accumulation of organic matter in the soil. Whale bone is also known as Baleen and it was used in a variety of nineteenth-century products where flexibility and strength were required. It had to be thoroughly cleaned after i ...
By Peter Prokosch
Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris)
The Sumatran tiger is classified as a critically endangered species (IUCN classification), and the more positive estimates hold that approximately five hundred animals are left on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. This smallest sub-species of the tiger once also lived on Bali and Java, but human ...
By Peter Prokosch
Franz Josef Land 2012 - Video
Video From UNEP/GRID-Arendal: GRID-Arendal was on board of m/v Ortelius of Oceanwide Expedtions to Franz Josef Land, August 9-22, 2012, in order to lecture on Arctic environmental developments and Linking Tourism & Conservation. Franz Josef Land (together with the Northern part of Novaya Zemlya) ...
By Peter Prokosch
Blue-headed Pionus parrots in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
The Blue-headed Pionus parrots is found in humid regions in South America including here in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. In the wild, the parrots live in flocks of up to 400 during breeding season, but the Blue-headed Pionus is also a very popular pet.
By Anne Solgaard
Temperate rainforest near Vancouver, Canada
Temperate rainforests are found in mild climatic zones with high levels of annual precipitation. These forests grow in several parts of the world, but the largest area of temperate rainforest is the Pacific temperate rain forest ecoregion along the west coast of North America – stretching from K ...
By Peter Prokosch
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