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Blue-headed Pionus parrots in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador The Blue-headed Pionus parrots is found in humid regions in South America including here in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. In the wild, the parrots live in flocks of up to 400 during breeding season, but the Blue-hea...

By Anne Solgaard

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 ...

By Anne Solgaard

By Anne Solgaard

‘Slow is beautiful’, two-toed sloth in Ecuador The sloth is only found in tropical forest regions of South and Central America. This slow but gentle mammal spends most of its life in the trees where it sleeps and feed on mainly leaves. Their stomachs are similar to t...

By Anne Solgaard

The Scarlet Macaw in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador The Scarlet Macaw is an easily recognizable parrot of South America. Here it is photographed in the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador - a park that was designated a UNESCO biosphere Reserve in 1989 and covers an area of al...

By Anne Solgaard

By Anne Solgaard

Cheetahs in the shade, Kenya The cheetah is the fastest living land animal and capable of reaching speeds up to 120 km/h. As opposed to their relative on the savannah, the leopard, cheetahs cannot climb vertical trees. The reason for this is that th...

By Yannick Beaudoin

Cleared land in the Amazon Jungle, Brazil Deforestation in the Amazon area is driven mainly by industry and agriculture. Mato Grosso means ‘’Thick Woods’’ and is the name of an inland state of central Brazil, where widespread forest clearing has had a dramatic i...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Red Panda (Ailurus fulgenst) The red panda photograph has been taken in a bamboo-rich forest at a level of about 3,500 m above sea level in the Sargamarta (Mount Everest) national park in Nepal. The red panda can be seen as a well-known (but rarly s...

By Peter Prokosch

Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris) The Sumatran tiger is classified as a critically endangered species (IUCN classification), and the more positive estimates hold that approximately five hundred animals are left on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. This s...

By Peter Prokosch

Winter Spruce Forest Spruce forest in Winter, Taunus/near Frankfurt a.M., Germany.

By Peter Prokosch

South Norwegian spruce forest

By Peter Prokosch

South Norwegian spruce forest Spruce is a characteristic species in Norwegian pine forests and can be found in most parts of the country, although less common in western Norway and in the north. The spruce tree, which can reach a maximum height of 50...

By Peter Prokosch

Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) fishing for Salmon Salmon-fishing kamchatka bears, kamchatka.

By Peter Prokosch

Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) fishing for Salmon

By Peter Prokosch

Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos Beringianus) fishing for Salmon

By Peter Prokosch

Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos Beringianus) fishing for Salmon

By Peter Prokosch

Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos Beringianus) fishing for Salmon

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

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