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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 ...

By Peter Prokosch

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 rai...

By Peter Prokosch

Clear-cutting, Southern Norway Clear-cutting-management of Norwegian spruce forest, Southern Norway

By Peter Prokosch

Central-European beech forest, Germany Central-European beech forest, Odenwald, Germany

By Peter Prokosch

Burning rainforest, Indonesia. Burning rainforest to make space for palm oil plantages in Sumatra, Indonesia.

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier mouth, Svalbard Glaciers cover around 59% of Svalbard, which is made up of four islands, Spitsbergen, Nordaustlandet, Edgerøya and Barentsrøya. Many of the glaciers in this area are known to surge, meaning that for 100 years they can re...

By Peter Prokosch

Svalbard Coastline, Pilarberget at Icefjord Pilarberget west of Longyearbyen at the Icefjord from air. The different geological layers (Lower Tertiary) are eroded in regular patterns. The cliffs provide breeding sites for tenthousands of Brünnich's guilimots and o...

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 ...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Stones within melting glacial ice In September 2007, an RSE (Religion, Science and Environment) synopsium called Amazon: Source of Life was held. It took participants through the Amazon focusing on the 42 billion trees in the area, threats on Brazil's wa...

By Peter Prokosch

Icebergs in Disco Bay, Greenland The Icebergs from the Ilulissat Icefjord - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - in Disco Bay/Greenland are the largest to be found in the Arctic. Latest research concludes that ice loss from both Greenland and Antarctica is ac...

By Peter Prokosch

Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides), 1st year, Ilusissat, Greenland The Iceland Gull, Larus glaucoides, is a large gull which breeds in the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland, but not Iceland, where it is only seen in the winter. It is migratory, wintering from in the North Atlantic ...

By Peter Prokosch

Black layers in glacial ice Icebergs can appear white, blue, green, brown or black. The colourations are caused by impurities or difference in density. The dark layers seen here indicate the presence of rock materials from the base of the glacier. ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Greenland mountains stick out the ice shield Almost entire Greenland is covered by a massive ice shield. Only on the edges peak mountains are sticking out.

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier from above Glaciers store about 75% of the world's freshwater and cover an astonishing 15,000,000 square kilometers of the World. Flying over these spectacular natural phenomena can be disorientating, as in this photograph, there c...

By Peter Prokosch

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) feeding in midnight sun, Svalbard The largest animal on the Earth is the Blue Whale. Their hearts can weigh as much as a car and yet they eat only krill, a tiny shrimp-like animal, which they filter out from gulps of water through plates of tough baleen.

By Peter Prokosch

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus), Svalbard Blue Whales live for 80-90 years on average and are actually a grey colour, despite the name. Millions of microorganisms take up residence on their bellies, making it appear a light yellow colour. They often swim in pair...

By Peter Prokosch

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera Musculus), Svalbard It is thought that Blue Whales are the loudest animal on the planet and that they can hear one another's calls from 1,600km away. There are believed to be between 10,000 - 25,000 Blue Whales surviving today, but this end...

By Peter Prokosch

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), Svalbard Walruses in Svalbard have been harvested over three centuries to the verge of extinction. Today there are a few thousand Walruses remaining here.

By Peter Prokosch

Walrus (Odobenus Rosmarus), Svalbard The walrus is a benthic (bottom) feeder - their diet consists of molluscs such as mussels, which they find on the seabed. Understandably, they prefer habitats with access to shallow feeding grounds and are often found ne...

By Peter Prokosch

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