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Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula), Costa Rica
Hummingbirds are among the smallest birds and exist only on the American continent, including the Caribbean. Here in the rainforest of Costa Rica, there are reported to be over 50 different hummingbird species. The birds feed off nectar, and their bills have evolved perfectly to extract nectar f ...
By Peter Prokosch
Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic
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 4 000 km2 (more than 400 000 hectares). The two central parts of the Reserve, the Dzanga and Ndoki Sectors, constitute the Dzanga Ndoki Nationa ...
By Peter Prokosch
Urban development in China
Urbanization and Industrialization is developing at maximum speed around the Yellow Sea in China and South Korea, much on the cost of natural habitats.
By Peter Prokosch
Polygon tundra, Lena Delta, Sakha Republic, Siberia, Russia
The Lena delta is one of the largest still pristine river deltas in the world. Its many naturally meandering arms form a magnificent tree-like shape. And ice wedges in the fine sediments of the treeless tundra form regular polygons with small ponds. The whole of the Lena Delta area has been nomi ...
By Peter Prokosch
Polygone tundra, Lena Delta, Sakha Republic, Siberia, Russia
The Lena delta is one of the largest still pristine river deltas in the world. Its many naturally meandering arms form a magnificent tree-like shape. And ice wedges in the fine sediments of the treeless tundra form regular polygons with small ponds. The whole of the Lena Delta area has been nomi ...
By Peter Prokosch
Male Lion (Panthera leo), Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya
The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with an endangered ...
By Peter Prokosch
Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenyal
Nairobi is home to the largest slum of Kenya - Kibera - also the second largest in Africa. Here a wall is visible between the slum and modern parts of the city. - Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya and is located in the highlands, near the Tanzanian border. With over 3,000,000 citizens it is t ...
By Peter Prokosch
Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, 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 lake became because of its international importance the first Ramsar site of Madagascar.
By Peter Prokosch
Poor people's village in Southwest 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
Family of a mini farm treating their little rice harvest, 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
Nubian Desert in North-Sudan from airplane
The Nubian Desert (Arabic: صحراء النوبة, Şaḩrā’ an Nūbyah) is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 400,000 km² of northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea. The arid region, a largely sandstone plateau, has lots of wadis flowing towards the Nile. There is ...
By Peter Prokosch
Drake Passage
The Drake Passage are the waters between the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean. The passage i ...
By Peter Prokosch
Bø, Vesterålen, Norway
The archipelago of the Vesterålen, North of the Lofoten, is a highly visited tourist destinations in North-Norwegian because of its natural beauty. It is also surrounded by one of the most productive fishing grounds, both factors, which let the Norwegian government to decide to not open near-off ...
By Peter Prokosch
Himalayan River
Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. Although glacier systems show a great amount of inherent complexity and variation, there are clear overall trends indicating global glacier recession, which is likely to accelerate in coming decades.
By Lawrence Hislop
cattle, Nepal
The Himalayas are the origin of major river systems that support some 3 billion people in 18 countries. In the future, many regions will undoubtedly experience water scarcity (UNEP 2010) due to a reduction in glacial ice in this region. Firstly, population growth is increasing the demand for ...
By Lawrence Hislop
Road construction, Nepal
In Nepal, mountain infrastructure such as hydropower plants, roads, bridges and communication systems are at risk with climate change and more variability in water runoff. With increased frequencies of landslides and flash floods, technical installations will become more vulnerable.
By Lawrence Hislop
Mangrove and human activity in South Bimini, Bahamas
Mangroves of the Bimini Islands, in the Bahamas, represent the only mangrove ecosystem located on the entire Northwest Bahama Bank. They are critically important to local and regional fisheries, through their role as nurseries and habitat for many marine species.
By Matthew Potenski (Marine Photobank)
Mangrove habitat in Oleta River State Park, Florida, United States
Located in North Miami, the Oleta River State Park is Florida’s largest urban park, representing over 1000 acres of coastal and estuarine habitat. Community based efforts are underway in the park, to remove invasive species and restore native species (with a focus on mangroves).
By Steven Lutz
Young red mangrove tree in the Benner Bay Mangrove Marine Sanctuary, Virgin Islands
Located in St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands, the Benner Bay Wildlife and Marine Sanctuary represents over six square miles of mangrove habitat. The bay is known as a “hurricane hole,” an ideal location to moor a boat during a hurricane due to the wind buffering protection offered b ...
By Kate Fuller (Marine Photobank)
Belize reef, seagrasses and mangroves from above
Mangroves forests, seagrass meadows and coral reefs can be connected to each other through nutrient cycles, physical processes, plant and animal migration and human impact. Protection of mangrove and seagrass habitats (blue carbon ecosystems) could also increase resilience to climate change for ...
By Jason Valdez (Marine Photobank)
Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
Yasuni National Park in Ecuador was designated a UNESCO biosphere Reserve in 1989 and covers an area of almost 10,000 km2. The park is home to several indigenous tribes, some of which are uncontacted such as the Tagaeri and Taromenane people, and the park itself is located within the ancestral t ...
By Anne Solgaard
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