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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
Littered beach, Bali, Indonesia
The term marine pollution relates to a range of threats to the marine environment including from land-based sources, oil spills, sewage, invasive species, marine litter, overfishing, destruction of coastal habitats, heavy metals and other pollutants. These activities contribute to decreased wet ...
By Lawrence Hislop
Mountain landscape in Berchtesgaden National Park, Bavaria, Germany
The high mountain landscapes of Berchtesgaden National Park hold nearly all the vegetation zones typical from mid-latitutdes to the polar circle, in terms of floral and faunal species.
By Peter Prokosch
Seal hunters near Ilulissat, Greenland
Seal hunting is only legal in 5 countries: Greenland, Norway, Nambia, Russia and Canada. Traditionally, seal hunting, whaling and fishing have been the basis of the economy for the local Inuit population. Hunting in summer is done by boat and in winter, by traditional dogsled. It is also common ...
By Lawrence Hislop
Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis Antarcticus), Antarctic Peninsula
The small Chinstrap penguin forages near the shore for small crustaceans, krill and fish and they use strong flippers and feet to crawl or jump up steep slopes. Unlike other Penguins here, the Chinstrap Penguin does not preferentially feed the stronger of it's chicks and ensures that both ar ...
By Peter Prokosch
View over Lofoten, Norway
Harbour, Lofoten: One of Norway's primary tourist destinations. Fishing is as strong as industry as tourism in this region.
By Lawrence Hislop
Fallen trees in a plantation, Canada
Sustainable forest management involves the maintenance and enhancement of forest environments, ensuring longevity of forest ecosystems while allowing the best possible environmental, economic, social and cultural opportunities now and into the future. In Canada, the world’s largest exporter of ...
By Lawrence Hislop
Floating ice sheet, Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica holds nine times the amount of ice as Greenland, the melting of which is an important contribution to current sea-level rise. Melting of the west Antarctic Ice Sheet alone would cause sea levels to rise by an estimated 3.3 metres. Scientists are studying the ice sheet closely, as it i ...
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus), captured Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis), Ny Ålesund, Svalbard
The Arctic fox can survive temperatures as low as -50 C in the treeless environment of the Arctic Tundra. The fur on the bottom of it's feet help to keep in the warmth in such extreme conditions. It will hunt lemmings that are beneath the snow or scavenge from remains left by polar bears and wolves.
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic Poppy, (Papaver radicatum) Varanger peninsular, Northern Norway
Papaver radicatum, the Arctic Poppy, is one of the northernmost flowering plants (angiosperms) in the World, and can be seen north of the 82nd latitude, and on the Nunavut coat of arms. Arctic poppy and its subgroups have a circumpolar distribution in arctic climates. Poppies bloom in June-July ...
By Peter Prokosch
Sea dahlias (Urticina eques), Rhodolith Reef, Kongsfjord, Finmark, Northern Norway
Sea dahlias (Urticina eques) on a shallow sublittoral reef.
By Kongsfjord International Scuba School
Toshka Lakes, Southern Egypt, February 2013
In Egypt, some of the water from Lake Nassar, the great reservoir formed by the Aswan High Dam on the Nile, is being pumped 320 kilometres northwest out of the Nile Valley into natural geological depressions in the Great Desert. There the water forms new lakes. The new lake system is endorheic, ...
By Peter Prokosch
Greenland Ice Sheet, Melting Surface in Summer
The Greenland ice sheet, the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years, contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced record melting in recent years and is likely to cont ...
By Peter Prokosch
Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima), male lifting up, Lille Torungen, Sørlendet, Norway
Eider ducks are the only common sea-duck species breeding in the archipelagos of Sørlandet. The Coastal Archipelago Park of the South Coast ("Sørlandet") of Norway covers an area of the Skagerak coast between Grenland in Telemark and Lindesnes in West Agder, including many hundreds of islands ...
By Peter Prokosch
Back from a Halibut Trawl, Reykjavik, Iceland
The halibut is the largest flat fish and is one of the most valuable and targeted species in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. - Sustainable and responsible fisheries management is of a fundamental importance as fisheries are one of the main pillars of the Icelandic economy. Given this fact, ...
By Peter Prokosch
Delta of Þjórsá, Iceland's longest river
The Þjórsá river is with its 230 km Iceland's longest river. The river has its source on the glacier Hofsjökull and ends at the South coast of Iceland. With its magnificent ever changing meanders it is one of the most photographed natural wonders of the country.
By Peter Prokosch
Glacial Rivers in South Iceland
By Peter Prokosch
Rhododendron Forest in the Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya, Nepal
Including the highest point on the Earth’s Surface, Mount Sagarmatha (Everest; 8,848 m) and an elevation range of 6,000 m Sagarmatha National Park (SNP) covers an area of 124,400 hectares in the Solu-Khumbu district of Nepal. An exceptional area with dramatic mountains, glaciers, deep valleys an ...
By Peter Prokosch
Rhododendron Forest and village in the Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya, Nepal
Including the highest point on the Earth’s Surface, Mount Sagarmatha (Everest; 8,848 m) and an elevation range of 6,000 m Sagarmatha National Park (SNP) covers an area of 124,400 hectares in the Solu-Khumbu district of Nepal. An exceptional area with dramatic mountains, glaciers, deep valleys an ...
By Peter Prokosch
Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus; Female) on 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
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