Endangered Species
Featured Work
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Marbled-headed Snake-lizard by Steve Sass
The Marbled-headed Snake-Lizard Delma australis is listed as an endangered species in NSW, AU. It is a legless lizard, NOT a snake. It is generally found in spinifex grasslands/woodlands that occur on sand dunes and sand plains. This population was recently discovered occurring in spinifex that grows on rocky ridges in far western NSW. For better viewing click on View Larger Steve is the Principal Ecologist at EnviroKey, a specialist ecological consultancy that undertakes surveys, research and education programs across Australia.
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Green and Gold Tree Frog by Steve Bullock
Limited to one section of Sydney, there habitat is under threat, they are endagered and on the decline, and the NSW government want to hold a V8 supercar event at there home!!!! ...
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Plankton by Joolee
Original is an acrylic painting on cardboard (56×43 cm). Abstract painting, for example, not drawn to scale. Plankton makes it’s mark at the bottom of the marine foodweb as the primary producer of oceanic biomass. All larger marine species depend on plankton as their food source for growth and development. The composition of plankton is set to change radically as a result of climate change and this will affect what species inhabit marine ecosystems of the future. Some planktonic species, especially those with calcarious shells, (eg the pteropods Limacina bulimoides, Cavolinia uncinate, and the heliozoan Acanthocystis perpusilla) are likely to go extinct as the amount of dissolved carbon in the oceans increases due to a build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Bear Prayer by Steve Bulford
WILD & FREE / / Polar bear mother praying for some ice so she may hunt to feed her cubs. / / The sea ice is shrinking at an alarming rate, which has a huge impact for the bears as this is their main hunting ground. More and more bears are being found to have drowned while trying to find the ice, even though they can swim up to sixty miles or so! / / I hope the ice does not completely vanish and that they always have somewhere to hut! (Spitsbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / /
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Charge! by Peter Denness
This female black rhino was shot in the Masai Mara in Kenya. / Canon 400d / Canon 100-400mm / ISO 100 / 1/13th Sec / F5.6 / 400mm focal length Taken using a panning technique which involved following the rhino in the view finder and using a slow shutter speed to blur the background.
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"Precious" (Mountain Gorillas) by Skye Ryan-Evans
A baby Mountain Gorilla is cradled in the arms of her mother, while her father, a large Silverback Gorilla watches from behind. Created to help raise awareness about the serious plight of the Virunga Mountain Gorillas. These creatures are severely endangered and only 650 or so remain alive in the world today. Most die due to illegal poaching, encroachment onto rainforest habitats by charcoal farmers who burn the rainforest trees down and many die due to vicious acts by warring soldiers fighting between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. All of my Mountain Gorilla artwork is dedicated to raising donations from sales to directly benefit the caring organization Wildlife Direct at wildlifedirect.org. Thank you for helping me to help them. ~ Skye
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"Survivors" - Oil Painting by Avril Brand
“Survivors” is an oil painting showing two orphaned cheetah cubs from Namibia who were rescued soon after their mother was trapped by a farmer. Their little faces depict the sadness, fear and uncertainty the future holds for them. Original oil painting on canvas: 20×30 inches (original sold) Cheetahs are the fastest land animals on earth, reaching speeds of up to 100 kph (70mph). Beautiful and sleek, they are the smallest of the big cats and their prey is often stolen by other predators. Highly threatened, these animals are in great need of protection. They need plenty of space for hunting and that space is steadily being reduced by human expansion. Out of all the big cats, the cheetah is the least able to adapt to new environments. It has always proved difficult to breed in captivity, although recently a few zoos have managed to succeed at this. Once widely hunted for its fur, the cheetah now suffers more from the loss of both habitat and prey. For more facts about cheetahs, please visit http://www.cheetah.org and http://www.dewildt.org.za/index.htm Wildlife, landscapes and Irish Life paintings by Avril Brand Clare Art Blog
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Mallee by Steve Sass
This photo was taken between Mount Hope and Ivanhoe, in western NSW. It is typical of the Sandplain Mallee, dominated by Red Mallee Eucalyptus socialis and Porcupine grass Triodia scariosa and is home to many endangered species such as the Western Blue tongue Tiliqua occipitalis. Steve is the Principal Ecologist at EnviroKey providing specialist ecological services across Australia.
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tiger bright by dnlddean
acrilics on ply close up
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Woma Python [Aspidites ramsayi] by Shannon Plummer
From the PX3 awarded series – ORDER:SQUAMATA / / Woma Python (Aspidites ramsayi), Uluru locality. A non-venomous python found in Australia. Listed as Endangered by IUCN 2.3. / / ©2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com / www.centralnetteddragon.com
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Berry's Clouded Leopard by BarbBarcikKeith
10×14 watercolor enhanced colored pencil on Arches “satin” finish paper. Original unavailable. This was one of three to be done for a client (unfortunately, he did come by and see the tutorials BEFORE he saw his artwork – kinda took the edge off it for me). If you wish to see how it developed, please go to my Journal and look for the “artwork in progress” clouded leopard. Completed 2008
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Deep Thought by JulieM
Portrait of a Orangutan / “Orangutans are among our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. They share 97% of their genes with us, they are highly intelligent, thoughtful and inventive. They have a culture and aesthetic sense, and they resemble us in facial expression, gesture and many other ways. The red apes, which live only in Borneo and Sumatra, are far more “human” than human beings, and thus probably too good for this world. They are strong as oxen, but do not defend themselves against poachers or the loggers of the palm oil corporations – and are mercilessly slaughtered.” / The whole time I was in Singapore shooting the photos of Orangutans, the sky was white with smoke haze drifting across from Indonesia, where the little remaining rainforest supporting this critically endangered species is being utterly destroyed. Destroyed at such an inconceivable rate that Orangutans will be extinct in the wild by 2010. / Thank Goodness for men like Willie Smits.
Recent Work
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YOU TALKING TO ME by cdudak
This is one of the giraffes at the Brookfield Zoo.
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I can see me! by Sheila Smith
A young White Naped Mangabey shows a keen interest in my lens. / Mangabeys are endangered monkeys.
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Enchantment'... by valzart
” Spirit of the Forest arise again send your guardians, protect the mighty trees from destruction they are the life and breath of the planet and fools of men are tearing them asunder, on their path to oblivion like lemmings on the road to extinction”. by V.Kelly ... save- our- trees.org:.. finished after midnight .
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Bourke's Parrot by Steve Sass
The Bourke Parrot Neopsephotus bourkii is a small Australian parrot (18-22cm) that can be found across the arid and semi arid areas of central Western Australia, southern Northern Territory, most of South Australia and southern western Queensland/far north-western New South Wales. This beautifully coloured bird was found in the acacia shrublands of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia and captured on a Canon EOS1000D with a 150-500 @ 500 handheld. Steve is the Principal Ecologist at EnviroKey, a specialist ecological consultancy that undertakes surveys, research and education programs across Australia.
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Ashok the Lion King by Wayne Gerard Trotman
© All Rights Reserved – No Usage Allowed in Any Form Without My Written Consent. Asiatic Lions are slightly smaller than African Lions and normally live in prides, but with less than 350 left in the wild, they are becoming extinct. Photographed by Redmoondragon
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Tiger! by Wayne Gerard Trotman
© All Rights Reserved – No Usage Allowed in Any Form Without My Written Consent. The Sumatran Tiger is an endangered species with less than 500 living in the wild. Sumatran Tigers are native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and are the smallest of the 5 remaining sub species of tiger. (The others being the Siberian or Amur Tiger, the Bengal Tiger, the Indo Chinese Tiger and the South Chinese or Amoy Tiger) Unfortunately in the past 70 years, 3 other sub species have become extinct. Photographed by Redmoondragon
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Bath House at Waldheim, Cradle Mountain by cradlemountain
10 photographs were taken with a Nikon D40 camera and stitched patiently together in Photoshop, to get this panoramic view of Gustav Weindorfer’s rain-forest bathhouse. / Born in Austria in 1874, Gustav Weindorfer came to Australia in 1900. He met Kate Cowle in Victoria and they both moved to Tasmania where they married in 1906, spending their honeymoon on Mount Roland. They bought a 100 acre farm at Kindred and settled down to farming. In 1909 Weindorfer and Charlie Sutton camped at Dove Lake and on the 4th of January 1910 Gustav, Kate and Ronnie Smith climbed Cradle Mountain. Kate Weindorfer thus became the first white woman to climb Cradle Mountain. According to Ronnie Smith, as they rested on the 1545 meter summit Gustav Weindorfer proclaimed “This must be a national park for the people for all time. It is magnificent, and people must know about it and enjoy it.” Gustav Weindorfer bought land in Cradle Valley in the late summer of 1910. In 1912 he started building his alpine chalet Waldheim, which means “forest home” and received his first guests in late 1912. / Kate Weindorfer died in April 1916 and Gustav Weindorfer died in May 1932, but during his lifetime his vision of a National Park became a reality when in 1922 an area of 158,000 acres from Cradle Mountain to Lake St.Clair was proclaimed a “Scenic Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary.” / There is a book called ‘Kate Weindorfer’, the women behind the Man, which is fascinating. Sadly, this forest is now endangered due to climate change. / Note: Tasmania is an Island south of Australia.
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Hi to all fellow members and dear friends at RB. i am running away from the buzz for a couple of weeks, trip to The Kruger National Park, need to reload on energy and just melt way in the wonders of nature! Will be back in two weeks time, know I am going to miss you, your wonderful art and rb a lot! Know the catching up wont’t do the thing, but, keep up the stunning work! Be back soon, hugs Maggie x
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In Flight Service by Steve Sass
I recently won a photo competition with this image run by the manufacturers of the world’s best echolocation call recording systems for microchiropteran bats, AnaBat. This photo was taken as we released some bats captured in traps to record these echolocation calls during a bat survey near Smith’s Lake (Seal Rocks) on the NSW mid-north coast earlier this year. The image is best ‘Viewed Larger’. Steve is the Principal Ecologist at EnviroKey, a specialist ecological consultancy that undertakes surveys, research and education programs across Australia.
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Johnson, K, Bird pollination of the Tasmanian endemic climbing heath, Prionotes Cerinthoides, (Ericaceae), by cradlemountain
Climbing Heath Prionotes cerinthoides Climbing heath is common in the rainforests of the west and south-west particularly montane areas and also occurs in alpine vegetation. It is a climbing plant, often seen draped around the trunks of trees. It has relatively large and beautiful pink bell shaped flowers from November to April. The genus Prionotes is represented only by this species, and is distinct from most other members of the family Epacridaceae because it has divaricate leaf venation. It is sometimes referred to as the missing link between the family Epacridaceae (southern hemisphere heath family) and the Ericaceae (northern hemisphere heath family). The closest relative to Tasmania’s climbing heath is a species found in the rainforests of Chile.
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Pandan,i Cradle Mountain Tasmania by cradlemountain
Gondwanaland plant, ancient and unique to the Alpine Tasmanian Mountains. There are four species. This one is being logged, to be replaced by the cloned Eucalyptus ‘niton’, grown for the Japanese news- paper industry. / Please Note:...notes from document which have amazing photography or the forest being destroyed in Tasmania. http://tasmaniantimes.com/images/uploads/SWST_report_to_the_IUCN_-_low_res.pdf “The TWWHA rainforests are the best example of their type in Australia for the protection of biodiversity” (Balmer et. el. 2004:27). However, this biodiversity is under threat due to the the destruction of forests surrounding the TWWHA (HVEC &TWS 2007). The habitat provided by old-growth forests is not as readily present in the juvenile forests which will replace them. Rare, endangered and endemic species under threat from logging and burning operations include the Tasmanian Wedge-Tailed Eagle, the White Goshawk and the Tasmanian Devil (HVEC & TWS 2007), threatened marsupial Dasyurus maculatus (spotted-tail quoll) and all five of Tasmania’s / endemic mammals (Driessen & Mallick 2003). Invertebrates include the threatened southern hairy snail (Austrochloritis victoriae), the threatened giant velvet worm (Tasmanipatus barretti) and repre-sentatives the primitive moth family Hepialidae, many being endemic (Bryant & Jackson 1999). / There are several areas surveyed for the SWST 2008 report which contain Richea Pandaniifolia, including TN42E, TN50A, TN46A, SX14C, FO60A. The crown of this Tasmanian endemic provides food for the larvae of the Proditirix niesleni / (the giant Tasmanian pandani moth), the largest moth in the Yponombutoidea family the only record of this genus found in Australia (Mallick & Driessen).
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Bottle Tree at Nagambie by Keith Richardson
These surreal beings, the ancient Baobab Tree, have captured the imagination of storytellers from now back to the Dreamtime. One can readily recognize individuals, and see through their scars, a little of their life’s traumas. This pair are growing in the western town of Nagambie, somewhere along the Newell Highway, between Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia.
About This Group
Welcome to Endangered Species Group! The mission of this group is to educate people about endangered and threatened species of plants and animals and raise awareness of this critically important issue.
Please respect the group’s simple rules:
1. Name the species and give its status (e.g., threatened/endangered/critically endangered) and the threats to its survival for each upload. Your description is every bit as critical to acceptance of an image in this group as the quality of the image. Please take the time to look up some information about the species and educate your viewers and potential buyers. It could really make a difference in the survival of the species! Good sources of information are Wikipedia and the IUCN.
2. Please add only one artwork per day, which allows more exposure for all of your beautiful work and the animal/plant that is endangered.
3. We have also recently decided that we should tell some happy stories in this group - some endangered animals and plants have been pulled back from the brink of extinction with intensive conservation efforts. So we will allow images of animals that were previously endangered or threatened, but the images must contain information in the description about the conservation efforts that were used to bring the species back to healthy populations. Without this information, we cannot accept the image; remember - education is our main goal.
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