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Alexandra Land, Cleaning-up Activities, 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
Rio+20 UNEP Pavilion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the futu ...
By Peter Prokosch
Rio+20, Victoria Regia, Victoria amazonica, Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro
At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the futu ...
By Peter Prokosch
Driftwood, Lena Delta, Sakha Republic, Siberia, Russia
Driftwood, both logs and whole trees, float down the Lena every year. They accumulate ashore the various river arms or make it to the sea, where they could drift with the sea ice towards Svalbard and Greenland. - The Lena River and delta are host to many nature reserves, including the Lena Pilla ...
By Peter Prokosch
Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya
The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae (the other is the Pygmy Hippopotamus). The hippopotamus is semi-aquatic, inhabiting rivers, lakes and mangrove swamps, where te ...
By Peter Prokosch
Landscape with little forests left, 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
Rift Valley, North of Masai Mara, Kenya
A rift valley is a linear-shaped lowland between highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault. This action is manifest as crustal extension, a spreading apart of the surface which is subsequently further deepened by the forces of erosion. When the tensional forc ...
By Peter Prokosch
Glacier ice, Antarctic Peninsula
Unlike the Arctic, which at its centre is an ocean, Antarctica is a landmass that is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. A permanent, massive ice sheet on Antarctica covers 98% of the continent and is containing the major freshwater reserves of the globe. Moving permanently towards the coasts, the ...
By Peter Prokosch
Pale-faced Sheathbill (Chionis alba)
Sheathbills (with their two species) are the only bird family with a breeding range that falls entirely within the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic. In this harsh environment, with an avifauna dominated by seabirds, they are the only common and widespread land-based birds. As predators and scavengers ...
By Peter Prokosch
Cold water corals, Lophelia pertusa, beach of Vanna, Troms, Northern Norway
With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Norwegian coast. Beside the bivalve Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica, remains of cold water coral reefs are found here. Lophelia pertusa is a species of cold-water coral which gro ...
By Peter Prokosch
Cold water corals, Lophelia pertusa, beach of Vanna, Troms, Northern Norway
With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Norwegian coast. Among two species of mussels remains of cold water coral reefs are found here. Lophelia pertusa is a species of cold-water coral which grows in the deep waters throug ...
By Peter Prokosch
Inquisitive Polar bear on the pack ice, Svalbard
Svalbard's polar bears belong to the Barents Sea population, one of 19 different polar bear populations recognised by scientists. Svalbard's population, estimated in the several thousands, is the only one not hunted within the Arctic. The young bear pictured here on the pack ice north of Svalbar ...
By Bjorn Alfthan
The Wet Forest National Park at Batumi, Georgia
The wet forest national park at batumi, georgia, caucasus was inaugurated in 2007.
By Peter Prokosch
Rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia
The search for minerals and the subsequent road constructions are often the first steps for major deforestation as is occurring here in the province of Riau/Sumatra, Indonesia.
By Peter Prokosch
Svalbard Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus, grazing on icy ground, Longyearbyen
Reindeer have a circumpolar distribution with several subspecies in different areas. The Svalbard reindeer is a small subspecies of Rangifer tarandus. The subspecies found in Svalbard is exclusive to this area. Reindeer are found in virtually all non-glaciated parts of the archipelago. They are ...
By Peter Prokosch
Autumn birch forest in the mountains of Southern Norway
Norway's geography is to a large part dominated by mountain ranges. Birch is usually the dominant species in northern areas of the Middle Boreal vegetation zone.
By Peter Prokosch
Well-managed tourists in Magdalena Fjord, Spitzbergen
Magdalena Fjord in North-west Spitsbergen, with its graves of Dutch whalers, is one of the most visited sites by tourist coming to Svalbard. And yet it is well managed. - WWF once facilitated a process of developing Arctic guidelines for tourists and tour companies. Representatives from local co ...
By Peter Prokosch
Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea), Lena Delta, Siberia, Russia
The Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea) breeds in the high arctic of northernmost North America, and northeast Siberia. It migrates only short distances south in autumn, most of the population wintering in northern latitudes at the edge of the pack ice, although some birds reach more temperate area ...
By Peter Prokosch
Purple Saxifrage, Canada
Purple Saxifrage is an edible plant found all over the Arctic region and also in mountainous areas of England and America up to 3,800m. It mostly thrives in shady, moist environments and is well adapted to extreme wind conditions.
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic vegetation, Norway
In 2008 the United Nations Environment Program expressed extreme concern for the implications of climate change on the Arctic regions. A warming Arctic climate is projected to cause various consequences such as melting sea ice and a rising and warming sea level, which in turn has a significant e ...
By Lawrence Hislop
Halibut fishing, Uummannaq, Greenland
Dog sleds, snowmobiles and cars can be found on the sea ice around Uummannaq, where traditional practice meets modernity in the name of fishing.
By Lawrence Hislop
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