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Humpback Whale, 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
Wintering site of Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen, Cape Norway, 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
Humpback Whale, 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
Tomato Anemone fish in blue tip anemone, Ha'apai, Tonga
Clownfish perform an elaborate dance with an anemone before taking up residence, gently touching its tentacles with different parts of their bodies until they are acclimated to their host. A layer of mucus on the clownfish's skin makes it immune to the fish-eating anemone's lethal sting. In exch ...
By Glenn Edney
Red gorgonian fan with brittle star, 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
Humpback whale mother and calf, Ha'apai Islands, Tonga
There is a very strong bond between mother and calf and they spend a lot of time in close physical contact. Humpback whales are known for their magical songs, which travel for great distances through the world's oceans. These sequences of moans, howls, cries, and other noises are quite comple ...
By Glenn Edney
Rio+20, Channel-billed Toucan, Ramphastos vitellinus, Atlantic forest, 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
Shelf iceberg, 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
Reclamation of tidal flats at East Coast of China
On the East Coast of China internationally valuable tidal flats are reclaimed and embanked at a high speed due to rapid industrial, agriculture and harbor development.
By Peter Prokosch
"Graveyard" of shellfish after the embankment of Saemangeum, South Korea
Within the East Asian-Australasian Flyway the tidal flats of the Yellow Sea are the most important refueling sites ("airports") for Arctic birds. The huge embankment of Saemangeum, which enclosed 400 km2 of tidal flats have decreased important refueling space for Arctic shorebirds significantly. ...
By Ju Yung Ki
African Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), Dyer Islands, Western Cape, South Africa
The African fur seal, or Brown fur seal is the largest of all fur seal species. It lives around the southern and southwestern coast of Africa from Cape Cross in Nambia and around the Cape of Good Hope to Black Rocks of Cape province. They prefer to haul out and breed on rocky islands, rock ledge ...
By Peter Prokosch
African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus), Tourist attraction at Boulders Beach, South Africa
The African Penguin (the only penguin species breeding in Africa) is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The African Penguin is listed in the Red Data Book as an endangered species. While million of penguins exist ...
By Peter Prokosch
Sea Lavander (Limonium peregrinum), West Coast National Park, South Africa
Limonium peregrinum is the largest and most showy of South Africa's sea lavenders and is common in the coastal bush along the Cape West Coast. Sea lavender is an evergreen, naturally clump-forming shrub reaching a height of 100 cm, with bright green foliage.
By Peter Prokosch
Red-veined Dropwing (Trithemis arteriosa), Cape Town, SA
The most common slender red dragon fly species in South Africa
By Peter Prokosch
Black and Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope australis), female, Silvermine, Table Mountain National Park, SA
The Black and Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope australis) is a common spider found in in the fynbos and is a member of the orb-web group of spiders. The larger female has a yellow and black scalloped abdomen. These spiders are harmless to man. They construct large wheel-like webs (orbs). As a di ...
By Peter Prokosch
Bark spider (Caerostris spec.), Silvermine, Table Mountain National Park, SA
Caerostris (bark spiders) Bark spiders are nocturnal orb-web spiders that construct a large orb web, up to 1.5 metres, stretching from one tree to the next. The abdomen is cryptically coloured and adorned with numerous horny projections and viewed from the rear a definite animal face can be per ...
By Peter Prokosch
Common Sugarbush (Protea repens), Silvermine, Table Mountain National Park, SA
The Common Sugarbush is since 200 years the national flower of South Africa. It was one of the first species of the rich Protea family, which Carl Linnaeus (in 1753) found and described. The honey-rich species is important for other endemic species in the biodiversity hotspot of the Cape Florist ...
By Peter Prokosch
Self-shooting box for Polar Bears from former hunting times, Svalbard
Until hunting was totally closed in 1973 Polar Bears were heavily hunted on Svalbard, using different methods. This historic self-shooting device remains as an outdoor museum piece aside an old trapper hut on an island in Eastern Svalbard. Today Svalbard is the only region within the range of Po ...
By Peter Prokosch
Pechora Delta Reserve, Russia
Situated in the Nenetsky Autonomous Okrug, in northwestern Russia , Nenetsky Zapovednik has, since 1997, helped preserve the unique landscapes and biodiversity of the western part of the Russian Arctic. Here, within the strict nature reserve’s borders, the Pechora River empties into the Barents ...
By Peter Prokosch
Brent Goose nest (Branta bernicla nigricans), Lena Delta, Sakha Republic, Siberia, RussiaP
Tundra islands in the northern Lena delta are used as breeding habitat of the Black-bellied Brent Geese (Branta bernicla nigricans). This part of the Siberian tundra forms the westernmost area of the breeding range of this sub-species, where also the Dark-bellied Brent Geese (Branta bernicla be ...
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
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