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March 2012:
New York Nature: Cover story in “Terre Sauvage” magazine, March 2012:
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March 2012:
New York City Audubon launched its new website featuring lots of my images, more at:
http://nycaudubon.org/
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March 2010:
The coming of the Soccer World Cup in June is an opportunity to raise attention on the Vulture’s plight in southern Africa:
All nine Vultures species of the southern Africa region face a bleak future! Experts predict that some species will be extinct in South Africa by 2020. Seven are listed in the Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland as being under threat of extinction!!!
Vultures suffer from poisoning, disturbance of nesting sites, loss of habitat and electrocution (powerlines). In addition to these persecutions, its body parts are also harvested for use in traditional “muti” medicine. Vultures have sharp eyesight and are believed to have clairvoyant properties. According to these myths, individual who consumes their brain will supposedly receive the same power. Keeping a dried Vulture foot is also believed to bring luck in betting and lottery gaming.
Deliberate and incidental poisoning of Vultures has been on the rise throughout parts of Africa in recent month!
African White-Backed landing at a “REST” safe feeding site in central Namibia.
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More images from Namibia and South Africa in the Vultures gallery!