Whether it is damage done to animal populations or finding new ways to slow down or prevent animal harm leading to extinction, we all need to be aware of the amazing beauty and intrinsic value of each and everyone of nature's animal species.
Joel Sartore is the founder of the Photo Ark, a groundbreaking effort to document species before they disappear—and to get people to care while there’s still time.
https://www.joelsartore.com/photo-ark/
When you check out the unbelievable photos, you will find that Joel portrays each and every one at the same size. He felt it was crucial to see them not by their appearances, but by their equality through the lens of nature's value system, each just as important as the other.
TaG22,
You caught my post in between an order editing. Be sure to check out my introductory words and link to Photo Ark, an unbelieve photo project, site, and book by Joel Sartore that now leads off my newest topic of "Earth's Animal Population". ?
https://www.joelsartore.com/photo-ark/
But to link to your comment on my elephants post:
Yasmin Tayag, Science Editor at Inverse, breaks down science headlines. Including this one sharing how scientists using DNA testing are busting illegal ivory cartels.
https://cheddar.com/videos/science-is-saving-the-elephants
Oh, and hahaha to your comment.?
Michele,
Thank you for this. What a wonderful way to start the day. This Joel guy is a gift. I teared up a bit looking at these pics. How can you look at such beauty and not care. I will be looking at the Ark over and over.
Sorry about being so quick on the trigger this morning. It was worth waiting for. ? ? ? ?
The photos are stunning! What a fantastic project and so needed in this time and place. Thank you for sharing Michele.
Since the title of this thread is" earth's animal population", I thought I would share this news, just out. A study spanning 40 years shows Puerto Rico's insect population is decimated. It has declined 60 fold in 4 decades and is impacting the animals that eat insects as well. This study confirms what has been found in other rainforests and locations around the world. The culprit is Climate Change.
https://www.popsci.com/temperature-rise-insect-populations
Oh Lovendures thst is incredibly sad. It's exactly why Joel Sartore started photo documenting them, the fear that someday many of them would disappear off the face of the earth and it would be a richness of nio-diversity forever lost to our world.
The statistics described and the worldwide changes are even more severe at this stage of climate change than most of us would imagine. Everything is so interconnected from weather to habitat to predation statistics on.
Never thought I'd be holding insects' well being in my thoughts but here I am about to include their little beingness in love and light for the good of our world!
And Jeanne, I was delighted to watch and listen to Joel Sartre on Public broadcasting tv recently. His view points and his dedication to animal life filled my heart.
He's been working on this for about 15 years and has about 9,000 species documented so far and hopes to keep his travels and photography going for at least 10 more.
He sells prints and books to pay for it all at his site besides the sponsorship of National Geographic, of course.
Focusing on the positive again, here's a man in Kathmandu who is so caring and protective of cows, thst he is using his only affordable means of transportation, his motorbike, to round up the sacred cows and herd them into his makeshift saactuary after they are abandoned by their owners for financial and other reasons.
A different take on the sacred cow energies of protection from harm.
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06kfbvl/the-man-who-saves-street-cows-on-his-motorbike
And another unusual one also making the news:
The nuns helping save a sacred species of fish, the axolotl has almost been wiped out by pollution and over-fishing.
Catch the video here:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06992cx/meet-the-nuns-helping-save-a-sacred-species-from-extinction