Three world renowned photographers have come together to show the beauty of nature to the world. Frans Lanting offers images of the lives of animals. Galen Rowell depicts breathtaking mountain photography and David Doubilet goes exploring beneath the sea. At the Living Planet website, you can view some of the contributions from these photographers.
To help save the earth's most vital places - and the animals and plants which live within them - World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has designated over 200 regions throughout the world that must be preserved if nature as we know it is to survive. Called Global 200, Living Planet captures the beauty within these regions.
The Global 200 identifies the most outstanding examples of Earth's diverse terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats areas where the Earth's biological wealth is most distinctive and rich, where its loss will be most severely felt, and where we must fight the hardest for conservation. Some Global 200 sites--Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the Galapagos Islands, the Florida Everglades.
WWF over the next several years will be focusing on 25 of the Global 200 ecoregions. They call this the The Focal 25. According to WWF, they seek to mobilize action by putting a comprehensive conservation strategy to work, protect key habitats and wildlife populations, unite development and conservation by promoting sustainable industries and markets for their products, and lay the foundation for lasting conservation through training, education, policy shaping, and strengthening of local partners. They have listed all 25 ecoregions with links to information about each one.
Man is the enemy of the environment and Man is winning. Principally through his efforts, not always intentional, Earth is losing one hundred species of animals, plants, insects, and fungi every day. Experts estimate that the world has lost one-third of its biological wealth over the past thirty years; that one in five species will become extinct in the next thirty years; that one in eight known species of plant is imperiled. (Walter Cronkite) a paragraph from the forward of Living Planet.
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WWF brings you this book as an eye opener to what may not be there tomorrow. Please visit their website to learn more.
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