Nature
The bees of Paris: so chic !
Some 300 hives have colonized the roofs and gardens of Paris. But who are these new beekeepers who let their bees gather pollen in the heart of the city?
Photos by Eric Tourneret/LightMediation
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Nemaiah, the last Mustangs valley
The last wild mustangs of Canada have come to symbolize one First Nation’s battle over a territory in remote and pristine British Columbia’s Chilcotin country.
Photos by Patrice Halley / LightMediation Text by Andrew Findlay
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – Lightmediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
The Bees of New York City
Since the election of President Obama, and the installation of a beehive in the garden of the White House by his wife Michelle,the young ecology-minded underground of New York City is defying the regulations and has set up hives from Manhattan to Brooklyn,and up to the Bronx…
A Photo story by Eric Tourneret / LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency – +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Syr Daria: the damned river
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From its very beginning till the Aral sea, Syr Daria river,a two thousand miles long river, accumulates the whole major ecological and water related problems one can ever face on earth.
A Photo story by Marc Roussel / LightMediation
Contact – Thierry Tinacci – LightMediation Photo Agency – +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 email: thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Galapagos – In the footsteps of Darwin
In these Ecuadorian Pacific islands, second worldwide marine reservation protected by a national park, animal is king and man is just tolerated. Between cliffs, mangrove swamps and moonlike landscapes, go and meet an extraordinary fauna.
Photos and text by Jean Robert / LightMediation
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Africa’s glaciers gone by 2020.
Fabled equatorial icecaps will disappear within two decades,because of global warming! Africa is home to three large ice mountains : the two ice volcanoes of Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro, and the Rwenzori mountains chain at the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Uganda. A few thousand years ago,these glaciers stretched several hundred km2. Now, the ice cap has been fastly melting for decades. It is estimated that they cover today barely 5 km2 of the African continent! The fantastic ice crown described by Hans Meyer conqueror of the Kilimandjaro, « Roof of Africa » in 1889 is reduced to less than 2 km2 today. Mount Kenya reduced to less than 0.4 km2. And the glaciers of Ruwenzori represent just 1 km2 in 2005 and also could disappear by 2020.
Photos and text ©Jean Robert/Lightmediation
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Cameroon – Adamawa, a paradise of bees.
The younger generation of Cameroonians, pushed out of the cities by unemployment, has found in the bush a refuge where the men can feed their wives and children. Many of these young people have become beekeepers, hoping to put aside money thanks to the sale of honey.The gathering of the honey on evenings of a full moon from one of the most aggressive bees in the world takes on the air of a sacrificial ceremony.
Photos by ©Eric Tourneret/LightMediation Text by ®Sylla de Saint Pierre
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Congo – The African forest, an endangered heritage.
As a consequence of the Rwandan genocide, several wars occurred in DR Congo since 1994. A great mass of people was forced to find refuge in the forest. To survive they had no other option as cutting trees for firewood and eating bushmeat. Paradoxically it was war that protected forest from lumbering. When a semblance of peace came back, forestry started again, worse then before, and people continues to cut tree for their needs.
A Photo story by ©Patrick Landmann/LightMediation
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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.
Photos ©Mauricio Granados/LightMediation
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