Nature
The vanishing of the Bees…
Now, when we face the question of the very survival of the world’s bees, scientists believe the reasons for their disappearance to be multiple and varied. In the United States, it is called CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder. This acronym groups together all factors behind the disappearance not just of domestic bees, but that of other Apis species: monoculture, pesticides, GMOs, bee diseases, deforestation… Today it is certain that man’s predation on the environment is causing the disappearance of pollinators, insects which nevertheless provide a free service to the American farming economy valued at some 15 billion dollars, which surely attains several hundred billion euros on a global scale. In a swift around-the-world tour, this report shows the paradoxes and complexities behind the disappearance of bee colonies.
Photos ©Eric Tourneret/LightMediation Text ®Sylla de Saint Pierre
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Alligators en Floride : une industrie controversée.
Tous les ans, quelques 600 nids d’alligators sont pillés en toute légalité dans l’état de Floride (USA). Plus de 54,000 oeufs viables sont ainsi retirés de leur environnement naturel pour être vendus par le gouvernement aux propriétaires des fermes d’alligators. Une industrie florissante et une très bonne affaire pour l’état de Floride. Pour certains ces fermes d’élevage ont permis l’arrêt des massacres et ont contribué à sauver l’espèce. Pour d’autres, les prélèvements d’oeufs augmentent les risques de disparition des alligators de Floride dont l’espèce est déjà menacée par la disparition de son habitat, les Everglades.
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Cratère du Ngorongoro: le Creuset de la vie.
Souvent désigné comme la « huitième merveille du monde », le cratère du Ngorongoro en Tanzanie, offre la plus grande concentration de prédateurs de la planète abritée au creux d’une gigantesque caldera. Cette reserve biosphère de L’UNESCO, inscrite à juste titre au Patrimoine Mondial de l’Humanité, présente une cohabitation singulière entre anciens guerriers Massai et rois lions.
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White Nature.
This feature story is an invitation to witness special moments, mostly photographed near where Vincent Munier lives high on the humped back of the Vosges and some taken during his recent travels around the Artic Circle. In both cases, the inital objective was the same: to slip into the skin of each animal to understand and approach it, sense its feelings and reactions in the most extreme moments. With perfection in mind, he went looking for a blizzard and the blizzard took hold of him. On the island of Hokkaido with cranes and whooper swans; in the Scandinavian tundra with musk oxen; in the vast Canadian plains where the majestic snowy owl lives.
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Le peuple des Abeilles
Si l’abeille venait à disparaître, l’homme n’aurait plus que quelques années à vivre. Affirmation sans doute à relativiser, comme aurait pu le dire Albert Einstein, auteur présumé de ladite citation. Il n’empêche que l’abeille, depuis son apparition sur terre il y a quelque cinquante millions d’années, conjointement aux plantes à fleurs, a largement contribué à la reproduction, à l’évolution et à la diversité du monde végétal que l’on connaît aujourd’hui. Butineuse laborieuse, couverte de pollen, son avidité à constituer des réserves hivernales dans sa ronde de fleur en fleur font de l’abeille un pollinisateur hors pair. Elle contribue, aujourd’hui encore, à la pollinisation de près de 80% des espèces végétales et demeure un maillon majeur de la sauvegarde de la biodiversité et de l’environnement.
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Reportage © Eric Tourneret / Lightmediation
River Dolphins in danger !
The definite extinction of the Baiji, or Chinese dolphin, is not only the first ever for a cetacean but could likely be followed by others. River dolphins are amongst the most endangered mammals in the world because they live right where humans are most active for fishing but also industry and transport, hence pollution. Hunting is usually not a major threat as these animals are often linked to religious beliefs. But this does not save them from being accidentally trapped in nets or starved by lack of fish. Portraits of these original creatures (some are almost blind, have crocodile rostrums, spit water, or bear hairs?) which live in the largest rivers of the planet.
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A nursery for bats
Spectacled Bat, is not really a threatened species. In the north of Australia, they still wander by the hundreds of thousands, although fruit growers do take their toll from these competitors. However, when females drop on the floor under their roosting trees, because they are paralysed by venomous tick bites, when their hopeless babies would be guarantied to die slowly on their breast, Jenny McLean has to intervene! Everyday, during the breeding season, she walks the colonies near her home, collecting sick animals she brings back to Tolga Bat Refuge and puts them "back on the wing"! Unfortunately, many mothers can’t make it so she has to take care of the little orphans, which she is devoted to, day and night, with milk bottle every two hours.
South Africa : the last sanctuary of the Chinese tigers.
Li Quan is a 44-year-old Chinese woman who devotes her life to the protection of the Chinese tiger species. With the help of her husband Stuart Bray, an American businessman, she has created the foundation Save China’s Tigers, and has fought since 1999 to prevent the ancestor of all tigers from disappearing…For there remain only 65 tigers in the zoos in China, and perhaps a few dozen in the wild.
Li Quan’s goal is to create a natural reserve in China where the tigers and other endangered species could live. But consolidating enough land in China would require much time, which is why, in the face of the urgency of the situation, Li Quan turned to South Africa to try out her plan.
So, the last refuge for the Chinese tigers can today be found…in South Africa.
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La Loire en danger
Le dernier fleuve sauvage d’Europe classé par l’UNESCO est sérieusement menacé. En trente ans le niveau d’eau a baissé de 3 à 5 mètres. Réchauffement climatique, surexploitation des ressources naturelles, pompage pour l’irrigation et les centrales nucléaires… les activités de l’homme mettent en péril tout l’écosystème ligérien et avec lui, l’art de vivre en Val de Loire : un héritage auquel les générations à venir devront renoncer si l’on ne change pas de cap.
Darwin: welcome to the "crocs" country !
Landing in Darwin, at the very north end of Australia, it is finding oneself plunged in the “Crocodile Dundee” movie universe. With a size of six meters long for a weight of one ton, the sea crocodile (crocodylus porosus) is indisputably one of the most dangerous animals in the world. This saurian has been exterminated in most of the countries. In contrary, in the Top End, the “salties”, as they are affectionately called here, make part of the natural patrimony. They are protected and have even become stars ! Welcome to the “crocs” country ! ©Jean Robert
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