![]() It is the only photograph of coral, accompanying a feature story in The Guardian by Graham Readfearn. I’ve been ignored, click here for more information.Īnd, alas, this same photograph has now been republished in The Guardian this weekend. I have written to the Sydney Morning Herald about it, to Catlin Surveys affiliated with the University of Queensland and UNESCO, and also David Vevers from Washington-based The Ocean Agency. It is a fraud to strip the colour from this photograph, and/or to not undertake correct colour balance post production. What is not right, I would go so far as to describe it as sick, is when the colours are stripped from these already pale corals to make them look bleached, as though they risk imminent mass death. Often the colour is from the fish, with the most common colour of coral, the world over, and since forever, being beige. I wish this wasn’t the world that I lived in, because the Great Barrier Reef is still so colourful. It relies on the general population being fearful – children anxious and the more so the better. Nowadays, Great Barrier Reef research is big business, all funded by the government. Greeting cards and postcards were once big business and everyone wanted them more colourful. They strip colour from pretty pictures because they want to make people feel sad, specifically about the corals at the Great Barrier Reef. Nowadays scientist regularly do the opposite. So, for example, she could add more pink to the cheeks of young girls on holidays at the beach. She was allowed to be creative the idea was to make people happy. The indigenous communities hunt whales under management by the World Eskimo Whaling Commission.My Aunty Bunty used to work in a factory in Dundee, in Scotland, with thousands of other women all adding colour to black and white photographs. On Alaska’s north coast, polar bears gather in late summer to feed on the carcasses of Bowhead whales discarded by the Inupiat villages. Occasionally small mammals, bird eggs, and vegetation when other food is not available. ![]() A keen sense of smell, sharp claws, robust strength and speed, and the camouflaging white coat aid them in hunting.Ĭarrion: including whale, walrus, and seal carcasses they find along the coast They also stalk resting seals and catch young seals by breaking into pupping chambers. Bears capture seals by waiting for them at breathing holes and at the edge of leads or cracks in the ice. The leading food of the Alaska population is the ringed seal. The Chukchi population occurs off western Alaska, with its range extending to Wrangel Island and eastern Siberia.Īn adult female polar bear walks along the snow-covered shore of an island in the Beaufort Sea on Alaska’s Arctic coast. The Beaufort Sea population (which is the predominant source for the polar bear photos in this article) occurs along the North Slope of Alaska and ranges into western Canada. Off Alaska’s coast, there are two polar bear populations. Some denning occurs along the north Alaska coast, especially within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the adjacent sea ice. During the summer, bears occur near the edge of the pack ice in the Chukchi Sea and the Arctic Ocean, mostly between 70° and 72° north latitude. In winter, bears off Alaska commonly occur as far south as St. They make extensive movements related to the seasonal position of the ice edge. Polar bears are most abundant near coastlines and the southern ice edge, but they can occur throughout the polar basin. Polar bears on sea ice in the Beaufort Sea, Romanzof mountains of the Brooks Range in the distance.
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