Photos and videos of endangered living beings

2003/07/28 Elhuyar Zientzia

• Irudiak/Soinuak
• Botanika
• Zoologia
• Ingurumena

The ARKive project has posted on the Internet photographs and videos of threatened animal and plant species worldwide. With this action they want to awaken the consciousness of the public and gather in a space the material that is now dispersed. And sometimes their photos and recordings are as threatened as those living beings.

The website www.arkive.org has already collected information from the more than 600 rarest plants and animals in Britain, where the project was born and has now been launched to the global section. In this section will be collected photographs of the 11,000 species that the World Conservation Union has included in the red list.

Together with the photographs, data are provided on the shape, habitat, way of life and sounds of each species, whether it has a special adaptation and how it interacts with the medium.

In the picture, for example, are the Japanese cranes. They are sacred and are symbols of fidelity, good luck, love and long life, but they are also very rare.

Photo: Jean-Paul Ferrero/Auscape International