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AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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An Academic Look at Conservation Photography
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(c)Carlton Ward Jr.
Congratulations to Carlton Ward Jr. who has finished his master's thesis on conservation photography at the University of Florida. The thesis provides and in-depth look at the theory and practice of conservation photography. In Carlton's words: "Conservation photography is simply photography that empowers conservation." To see Carlton's finished paper click on the above photo.
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American Photo Honors For Thomas Mangelsen
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(c)Thomas D. Mangelsen
Congratulations to Thomas Mangelsen for winning American Photo Magazine's Image of the Year in the nature category. Mangelsen's photo portrays king penguins in the bright morning sunshine, shaking off after a cold dip in the southern Atlantic Ocean. To learn more, click on Tom's photo above.
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Chris Linder's Arctic Expedition at Chicago Museum
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(c)Chris Linder
Chris Linder's work with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will be exhibited at the Chicago Field museum from February 22 through July 6, 2008. The exhibit includes photos from Linder's expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, an undersea mountain near the North Pole. Linder is also currently working with the National Science Foundation on a climate project in the Antarctic. His daily photo journals can be seen at http:// polardiscovery.whoi.edu. |
Stefano Unterthiner's Albatross in GEO
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Stefano Unterthiner's images of the wandering albatross, taken on his sub-Antarctic expedition last year, are featured in the January publication of Italian GEO magazine. Images from the 12 page portfolio can be seen by clicking on the above photo.
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| Tui de Roy Launches Galapagos Tour
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Tui de Roy has designed a Galapagos tour especially for photographers. The tour will highlight the three top wildlife islands of Espanola, Genovesa and
Fernadina, home to the waved albatross, swallow-tailed gull, Galapagos penguin and others. The first tour will be in June 2008 and details can be found at ecoventura.com.
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| ILCP Members in National Geographic
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Several of our members' work appeared in the pages of National
Geographic's January 2008 issue. Associate Klaus Nigge's work on the
Philippine eagle was featured in "Lord of the Forest." And
Annie Griffiths Belt and Magnus Elander contributed incredible images of Victoria Falls and a great gray owl to the Visions of Earth section. |
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Dear ILCP community,
As of this month, we are handing the duty of the newsletter to Krista Schlyer, a member of our Emerging League and Washington DC area resident. Two newsletters--one for members only, and one for our wider community--will hereafter be sent out monthly. We welcome all members to submit brief accounts of any news you would like the ILCP community to know about--work, books, awards, calls to action, etc. And we would love to hear any ideas on how the newsletter can be improved to better serve our members and the cause of conservation.
To have your items included in the newsletter, please send an email to Krista at news@ilcp.com, and please include a photo if you can. Please try to have all news submitted by the end of the third week for inclusion in that month's news.
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RAVE Success for Primates in Bioko
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Our recent RAVE in Bioko, an island off the coast of equatorial Guinea, highlighted the plight of primates in a sensitive ecosystem. Our participating photographers--Tim Laman, Christian Zeigler, Joel Sartore and Emerging League member Ian Nichols--managed to get some important images, including of 5 of the island's 7 subspecies of endemic primates. Many of these species have been brought to their knees by the bushmeat trade, and the purpose of this RAVE was to call attention to the situation in hopes of ensuring conservation measures. To that end, Cristina Mittermeier joined the RAVE to participate in negotiations with the government. The fruits of this expedition will be made public soon in a press release, so stay tuned for more information.
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Keeler videos raise awareness for wild wolves.
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Dorothy and Leo Keeler have produced two important videos geared toward wild wolf conservation. The first highlights the history, politics and damaging ecological effects of Alaska's aerial wolf killing program. This video, which has gained a wide audience on the Internet and television news, shows how trophy hunting interests are swaying governmental policy, to the detriment of Alaska's wildlife. The Keeler video is meant to raise awareness and support for pending federal legislation (H.R. 3663, the PAW act) that would outlaw the practice of shooting wolves from airplanes, a practice that has twice been voted down by the residents of Alaska, but overruled by the state. In all, 671 wolves have been killed in the past four years under this predator control program meant to artificially inflate the number of big game animals like moose. To see this video and learn more about this issue, click on the above photo or the following link: http://current.com/items/88811075_end_aerial_wolf_hunting
The Keeler's second wolf video serves to raise awareness and combat the negative press Alaskan
wolves have been getting recently, due to reports about wolf attacks on domestic dogs. These reports, broadcast on CNN have created unreasonable fear in a public unaware of normal behavior
patterns in wild wolves. The video is intended to show people that a
wolf unafraid of people is not necessarily a threat, as press coverage
has suggested. The video can be seen on youtube.com
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTIIQ2sE2Go).
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Eye on the Albatross
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 Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom have begun displaying the fruits
of their albatross project, sponsored by National Geographic. Check out
the beautiful albatross feature in the December issue of National
Geographic magazine, which partners Lanting with writer Dr. Carl
Safina. Lantings photos will be exhibited in National Geographic's
Explorers Hall in Washington DC through February 10, 2008. And look
for Eckstrom's video coverage of the Albatross on National Geographic's
"Wild Chronicles" on PBS beginning on December 15, 2007 (download the podcast at www.nationalgeographic.com/donate/wildchronicles).
If you are in Santa Cruz, California on February 2, Lanting and
Eckstrom will be giving a presentation on albatrosses at the Rio
Theater. For details: www.lanting.com/workshops.html.
Finally, to learn more about how to help protect this incredible winged giant -click here.
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Tooth and Claw Highlights Britain's Predators
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 ILCP Associate Peter Cairns and co-author Mark Hamblin's book about the predators of Britain is now available. Tooth and Claw provides ten case studies on predator issues in the region, including the plight of the Scottish wildcat and the possible return of wolves, bears and lynx to to Britain. For more information and to order the book, click on the book cover at right.
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The Stork's Nest Coming Soon
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 Igor Shpilenok and his wife Laura Williams have partnered on a book that will be released in March by Fulcrum publisher. The book, The Stork's Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside, is available now for preorder. The Stork's Nest tells the story of Laura's relocation to a tiny, remote Russian village in order to work at the nature preserve created by Igor. Igor's photographs accompany the text.
For more information, click on the book cover.
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Arctic highlighted at Smithsonian show
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 Norbert Rosing presented a slideshow to a packed house at the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center in January. The presentation featured Rosing's vast library of Arctic images taken over the past 20 years, including many images from his book The World of the Polar Bear, published in 2006.
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NVN - ILCP Conservation Photography Symposium in the Netherlands - Feb 8-10
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4th International Festival for Nature Photography will be held in
Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem. ILCP Fellows, Tui De Roy, Staffan Widstrand,
Cristina Mittermier and Norbert Rosing are all presenting during the
main program.
More Info
WQK08 - Whale Quest Kapalua 08 - February 15-17
ILCP is a proud sponsor of the 2008 Kapalua Whale Quest (Maui) Hawaii. Fellow Flip Nicklin, a
founder of Whale Trust, is gearing up for the third annual installment
of this event. Cristina Mittermeier will speak on behalf of ILCP and
David Doubilet and Flip Nicklen will do presentations on their latest
work.
More info
ILCP at NANPA Conference- Feb 27- March 2, 2008
ILCP
will be sponsoring the Outreach event, which will include Nick Nichols
as Master of Ceremonies and presentations by Brian Skerry. ILCP will
also host a reception to honor Jim Balog, NANPA's Photographer of the Year; Amy Gulick who will receive NANPA's Mission Award; Florian Schulz who will be presented the NANPA Vision Award; and Mark Lukes, who will get the Outstanding Service Award.
We hope to see many of you there!
More info
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Thanks for your support!
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