Photo Stories

 

NAMDAPHA NATIONAL PARK, INDIA:

A Margin of Safety?

In the Namdapha Tiger Reserve and National Park on India's border with Myanmar, modern conservation values are being confronted by traditional peoples with no where else to go. Greg Shaw was the first photojournalist allowed in to document the story (Published in Action Asia magazine).

 

HAVING A BLAST:

Ten Greatest Volcano Hikes

Cover feature: The wondrous temple of Borobudur, built of volcanic stone with its shape echoing that of the ever-active Merapi seen in the distance. Volcanoes are found all over the world. But nowhere is there such a concentration of them as in the 40,000km horseshoe-shaped belt of the faults, trenches and island areas that encircles the Pacific (Published in Action Asia magazine).

 

 

 

TIGER TIGER:

A Magnificent Symbol of Asia Faces Its Most Difficult Fight

A fight for survival: Environmentalists report that the number of wild Bengal tigers in India could number in the hundreds in just a few short years. The illegal trade of poached tiger skins between China, India and Nepal now poses the single most immediate threat to the existence of the big cats in the wild. (Published in Asian Geographic magazine).

 

VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, RWANDA:

The Mountain Gorillas of Virunga

A new census shows that the number of mountain gorillas living in Volcanoes National Park has increased 17% in the past 15 years. Park staff and researchers are cautiously optimistic that newborn babies and steadily increasing eco-tourism bode well for the future of the rarest of the rare (Published in Lifestyle and Travel magazine).

 

 

KALIMANTAN'S GREAT RED APES:

Orangutan: Man of the Forest

Exploring Kalimantan's Tanjung Puting National Park. "Orang society" and extraordinary biodiversity are all the rave in this last haven for the rarest of the rare. Extinction is forever (Published in Tropical Arts, Culture and Travel magazine).

 

SAGUENAY MARINE PARK:

Window on an Unique Envionment

Cover feature: Beluga whales helped spark outrage over pollution in the St. Lawrence River, Canada, but what has been achieved since the cancer ridden bodies of the endangered whales started washing up on shore (Published in Canadian Parks and Wilderness magazine).

 

WOLVES OF THE SEA:

Transient killer whales

Silent and deadly, transient killer whales are formidable predators. The fact that fish-eating and marine mammal-eating killer whales coexist in the Pacific Northwest waters is thought to be an unique situation among the whale nations of the world (Published in Nature Canada magazine).

 

Robert Michaud believes whales are bringing us messages from the deep.

"They return each summer to our coastline with little messages (high levels of contaminants, for instance) written in their blubber, reminding us that our oceans are not infinite, they are relatively small - a very thin layer wrapped around parts of the planet - and look what we have dumped in them."
(Published in Nature Canada magazine).

 

 

 

 

 

ON THE BRINK:

Africa's most endangered primates

Rehabilitation, reintroduction, conservation education and associated tropical forest research are the tasks of the day. The Cercopan and the Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Center Projects are racing against time to bring West Africa's endangered primates back from the brink of extinction (To be Published).

 

 

 

 

Smithsonian Thru Our Readers' Eyes

Finalist: Travel Category. "We were legitimately concerned about flying into Jogjakarta as Merapi, "Fire Mountain," volcano had become increasingly active with volcanic smoke reaching hundreds of meters into the air...."

 

 

 

 

BBC/Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Entries

Finalist and Semi-Finalist images 2007 and 2008.

 

Many Moons Ago...

My first two publications :)

More photo-essays to be displayed soon ....

 

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