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Polar bears on pack ice north of Svalbard with seal kill
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
Forest Elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in the Dzanga Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic
Forest elephants in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and Dzanga-Sangha dense forest special reserve in the Central African Republic, Congo Basin. The Dzanga Sangha Reserve is located in the rainforest in the south-western part of the Central African Republic. It comprises a total area of more than ...
By Peter Prokosch
Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) feeding on a seal, Svalbard, Norway
Where seals are not available or sea ice is absent, Polar Bears will retreat to land and eat other marine mammals, reindeer, rodents, sea birds, ducks, fish and berries or scavenge on carcasses or garbage from humans.
By Peter Prokosch
Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus), Svalbard, Norway
Polar Bears live across Northern Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Norway, numbering around 22,000 bears. They depend on sea-ice to hunt and breed. As sea ice recedes further and further from the coastline, Polar Bears are forced to swim farther in order to reach vital food sources, leaving ...
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic Fox (Alopex Lagopus), Lena Delta
The Arctic Fox is quite small - up to 60cm long with a tail around 30cm. Their Winter fur is thick and long to protect from the icy Winters in the Tundra. There is considerable contact between species of Arctic Fox and they often cross Arctic sea ice in order to move between land masses.
By Peter Prokosch
Forest Elephants (Loxodonta yclotis) in the Dzanga Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic
Forest elephants in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and Dzanga-Sangha dense forest special reserve in the Central African Republic, Congo Basin. The Dzanga Sangha Reserve is located in the rainforest in the south-western part of the Central African Republic. It comprises a total area of more than ...
By Peter Prokosch
Glacier Mouth, Krossfjorden, Svalbard
Krossfjorden lies within the Spitsbergen National Park in the Svalbard archipelago. The mountain formations in this area represent different geological periods and the site is recognized as an important monitoring station for climate variations. Lucky visitors to the area might witness the calvi ...
By Peter Prokosch
Kongsfjord, Spitzbergen
Spitsbergen is the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, the area of which covers around 62,500km2. The climate here is strongly influenced by two oceanic currents: The West Spitsbergen Current (the Northernmost branch of the Gulf Stream) and the East Greenland Current (branching off the N ...
By Peter Prokosch
Dogs on sea ice, Greenland
Dog sledding is a mode of transport and a tradition dating back as far as the 10th Century in Greenland. Sled dog teams are usually made up of between 12-15 strong dogs.
By Lawrence Hislop
Dog sledding on sea ice in Greenland (video)
Dog sledding is a mode of transport and a tradition dating back as far as the 10th Century in Greenland. Sled dog teams are usually made up of between 12-15 strong dogs.
By Lawrence Hislop
Madagascar - two children in a poor country
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
Kamchatka forest, Russia
The Kamchatka Peninsula separates the Sea of Okhtosk from the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean. The area is home to a variety of species of plants and trees and one of the more common tree species is the elfin cedar which from above resembles a dark thick carpet covering the hills and valleys. ...
By Peter Prokosch
Young Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina), Antarctic Peninsular
The largest of the Antarctic seals, the Elephant Seal is recognised by the trunk-like nose and impressive size - reaching up to 5.8 metres and weighing a maximum of 3700 kg. It spends most of its time at sea, and is far more mobile in water than on land. The Elephant Seal is able to dive up to ...
By Peter Prokosch
Sabine Gull (Larus sabini), Lena Delta
The Sabine Gull is a distinctive Arctic Gull that nests mostly on moist Tundra ground at high latitudes, such as the Lena Delta. It lays 1-4 eggs on the moist ground, often without lining.
By Peter Prokosch
Wildlife at Lake Nakuru
Lake Nakuru National Park is one of several protected areas in Kenya and is located in the eastern African Rift Valley that stretches from northern Tanzania to Ethiopia. It contains a shallow lake, fed by the Njoro, Makalia, and Enderit rivers. The lake has no outlet and is home to many plant an ...
By Peter Prokosch
Birch Trees in autumn colors in Southern Norway
The autumn season in Norway sees the leaves of trees transforming from green to a diversity of yellow, orange and red. The brilliance of the colours that develop in an autumn season are related to weather conditions, with temperature and moisture as the main factors.
By Peter Prokosch
Sea Ice, Svalbard
Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an important role for the climate and ecosystems. The extent and thickness of sea ic ...
By Peter Prokosch
Leif Ericson monument in front of Reykjavik church, Iceland
Leif Ericson (ca. 970 – ca. 1020) is regarded as the first European to land in North America nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus. According to the Sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, tentatively identified with the Norse L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern ...
By Peter Prokosch
Cape Flora, 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
A school of Moorish Idols cruise over the reef, Ha'apai, Tonga
Coral reefs are the most diverse and beautiful of all marine habitats. Large wave resistant structures have accumulated from the slow growth of corals. The development of these structures is aided by algae that are symbiotic with reef-building corals. Coralline algae, sponges, and other organism ...
By Glenn Edney
Shelf-ice pieces, Antarctic Peninsula
An ice shelf is a thick platform of ice that forms at the grounding line of a glacier, where the glacier meets the coastline. Most freshwater on earth is bound in the huge ice shield covering almost entire Antarctica and extending in shelf-ice to the sea. Increasing melt of Antarctic ice would l ...
By Peter Prokosch
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