Nature
Scientists in China struggle to save the last 1000 pandas
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, is the heart of the country’s campaign to save its national emblem from extinction. It has been the pioneer in using artificial insemination to reproduce the notoriously frigid and infertile animal.
Photos and text by Justin Jin/LightMediation
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Agony and Ivory: ivory trade is back…
…recent chinese immigration in Africa is undoubtly a key to understand and discover the new trading routes… and behind the trade is a serious stake : the survival of Forest elephant in Central Africa. A French veterinarian who investigated in seven African countries, tells us his story.
Photos and text by Jean-François Lagrot/LightMediation
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The pollinating nomads
Beekeepers are the nomads of the US agricultural world.In white overalls, they spend half the year transporting their hives to the four corners of the United States so that fruit and vegetables can be found on supermarket shelves.
Photos by Eric Tourneret/LightMediation Text by Sylla de Saint Pierre
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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
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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
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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
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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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