The wildest and most mysterious place in America is without doubt the Great Bearrain forest, one of the largest coastal temperate rain forest in the world. Here, black bears are white and trees smell salmon … This 25 000 square miles of fjords and islands on Canada’s West Coast is home for the elusive « spirit bear ». A A unique ecosystem tightly linked to the cycle of salmon migration.

Photos and text Jean Robert/LightMediation

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After Gaucho insecticide, the Varroa mite, the collapse disorder bee colonies, the suspected toxicity of GMOs, the latest threat takes the form of a hornet. This is the Asian hornet probably imported in Europe at the of trading with Asia. So it has been found for the first time, in France in 2005. Widely settled in the area of Bordeaux, in France in 2005, it now spreads to the rest of the Europe…

Photos and text by Pascal Goetgheluck/LightMediation

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In Belém, Professor Giorgio Venturieri has been studying these pollinators of plants for 20 years. In the Embrapa laboratories, the Brazilian equivalent of the National Institute for Agronomic Research, Giorgio is seeking to domesticate the plants and animals of the Amazon to use them in agriculture.

Photos by Eric Tourneret/LightMediation Text by Sylla de Saint Pierre

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Every year Ban Khok Sanga, Thai village where the cobra is king, celebrates the Buddhist New Year, Son Kran, using it as an occasion to venerate the Buddha and the cobra. The village owes its reputation to this ceremony. Visitors come from all over the country to be able to get close to the reptiles and to watch an extremely dangerous encounter during which the man has to dominate and then finish by trapping the reptile’s head with his mouth. This finale is called the kiss of death…

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At the borders of Sichuan, it is one of the national parks the most appreciated by the Chinese. There, Zhang Yimou had chosen to shoot some scenes of his famous « Hero ». The nature lovers come to Jiuzhaigu to breath.

Photos and text by Marc Wattrelot/LightMediation

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The little known Saiga Antelope runs across the steppes for its survival.Its population dropped from over a million in the beginning of the 1990’s,to less than 50 000 in 2003. But the brave little saiga has not said its lastword yet…and the international scientific community is seriously handling this issue now.

Photos and text by Jean-François Lagrot/LightMediation

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The blue mountains of the Nilgiri Hills, in India, are a paradox of nature: if throughout the rest of the world the bees are disappearing, here it is the honey gatherers who are in danger.

Photos by Eric Tourneret/LightMediation – Text by Sylla de Saint Pierre and Eric Tourneret

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The Hashemite kingdom of Jordan is well known for its rich nomadic culture and heritage, huge desert fortresses, and the fascinating city of Petra. But far from the eye, deep in the Edom and Moab mountains lies a unique and amazing world of contrasts. A meeting place between arid land and water…

Photos and text by Ziv Sherzer/LightMediation

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Each year tens of millions of Monarch butterflies travel more than 4500 kilometers from Canada and the United States to the mountains of Michoacan in Mexico. For scientists, this unique migration on our planetis a veritable enigma of nature. Today, the destruction of the habitat of the Monarch threatens this extraordinary phenomenon.

Photos and text by Alexis Duclos /LightMediation

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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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