Testing the #video feature on Mastodon, this a short clip from my #rainforest #photography wanderings in the local #forest full length can be viewed on youtube, not sure what time limit / resolution and file size is on Mastodon.
The beauty of #Alaska changed me. I had never seen an old-growth forest or walked through a temperate #rainforest before. Standing among trees that had lived for centuries, surrounded by the biodiversity of so many plants, fungi, and animals, shifted something in me. I started noticing the natural world in a way I never had. And somewhere along the way, I fell in love with being alive in a way I hadn’t felt before.
For a long time, I thought purpose was something I had to find one day. Instead, I found it by paying attention: learning the names of trees and mosses and mushrooms; watching a bear scratch its back on a tree; or just sitting quietly and noticing Stellar Jays bullying smaller birds away from the feeders. I realized the woods are full of stories, and it’s up to us to slow down and notice them.
Paying attention became an act of gratitude. Curiosity became how I moved through life. Slowly and quietly, my mental health started to heal.
Fresh greenery from a new generation of #trees surrounds the weathered trunk of a dying old-growth cedar. #Vancouver 's North Shore temperate #rainforest
Managed to get out early morning before work, enjoyed the #rain, hiked directly to this spot, hoping to get some #fog and got rewarded. I know I'll be back many times to get the light I'm after, still absolutely gorgeous day and location.
My name is Daniel, I'm a A West Coast #Canada photographer with lifelong weakness for #photography / #videography / video editing / color grading and music. Searching for secrets in the local #Vancouver 's North Shore #rainforest has defined my last few years. I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface, if anything, my connection to these forests has only deepened.
"The far right is moving in on the Amazon. Outsider and attorney Abelardo de la Espriella's win in Colombia, Keiko Fujimori's triumph in Peru, and the state of emergency in Bolivia point to an increasingly hostile future for the planet's largest rainforest.
Added to this scenario is the alarming fact that Venezuela is a ward of the United States.
If Flávio Bolsonaro comes out on top in Brazil’s October elections, nearly the entire Amazon will be held hostage to a project based on the limitless exploration of Nature, along with most of the countries in Latin America."
From Colombia and Peru to Bolivia and Ecuador, Trump-aligned groups are accelerating the demise of the planet's largest rainforest. Brazil will decide whether to break this pattern in a presidential election later this year.
Like those evocative Japanese paintings of yore, so far across the Pacific...if only they could have visited it as it was then, and returned to tell the tale.
Captured by me in the Olympic Peninsula: "Aerial Perspective".
I originally posted this in January 2021. Since then we have had over five years of further destruction. Will Lula be able to make a difference? We, in the rest of the world can only hope and wait.
The poster child if you like for trees is the Amazon rainforest. It’s the one that everyone remembers and roughly knows where it is but it is being decimated effectively so that the burgeoning global human population and their waistlines can eat cheap beef burgers. Like many countries in South America, Brazil’s population continues to grow. The Brazilians are mostly descendants of Europeans that have only been there for five or so centuries yet the numbers today are so many that they are destroying the country like locusts in a field of crops. Studies have shown that once enough of the forest has been cut down precipitation will change and the forest will stop producing enough rain to sustain itself. How long before this happens is as usual open to debate and many think that it will be in the 2030s to 2040s. In 20
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When will the Amazon reach a tipping point?
I originally posted this in January 2021. Since then we have had over five years of further destruction. Will Lula be able to make a difference? We, in the rest of the world can only hope and wait.
The poster child if you like for trees is the Amazon rainforest. It’s the one that everyone remembers and roughly knows where it is but it is being decimated effectively so that the burgeoning global human population and their waistlines can eat cheap beef burgers. Like many countries in South America, Brazil’s population continues to grow. The Brazilians are mostly descendants of Europeans that have only been there for five or so centuries yet the numbers today are so many that they are destroying the country like locusts in a field of crops. Studies have shown that once enough of the forest has been cut down precipitation will change and the forest will stop producing enough rain to sustain itself. How long before this happens is as usual open to debate and many think that it will be in the 2030s to 2040s. In 2019, an economist called Monica de Bolle, suggested that this might happen early on in the 2020s, theguardian.com/environment/20…. What is known is that the Amazon, a forest of 16,000 different tree species is drying out, nature.com/articles/d41586-020…. It is thought that in the last 100 years that the temperature in the forest has increased between 1 and 1.5oC and that in parts the dry season has increased from 4 to almost 5 months in the last 50 years. In addition there has been three severe droughts between 2005 and 2020 and it is thought that some species of trees are thriving at the expense of those that are dying due to the less moist conditions. At the time of writing even the pandemic appeared not to be able to slow the rate of deforestation in the Amazon.
On World Rainforest Day, data shows global deforestation must drop 41% below current trends to meet 2030 climate targets.
Despite a 35% decline in forest loss in 2025, over 4.3 million hectares (10.6 million acres), an area larger than Switzerland, were still destroyed. mongabay.cc/yERSgp
Every year, June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, an awareness day launched by Rainforest Partnership in 2017 to advocate for the immediate protection and restoration of the world’s tropical forests.
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐝⚖️ Two towns in the Peruvian #Amazon granted native stingless #bees legal #rights – a world first for any #insect, allowing #Indigenous groups to defend them in court.
The movement, led by microbiologist Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, gives legal tools to protect the #pollinators against #deforestation and #pesticides.
“The system is the art,” says Refik Anadol during a recent tour of Dataland, the 25,000-square-foot immersive, environmental, generative, multisensory AI arts
