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We're still waiting for the sunshine here in the UK, but Wildscreen's silver lining in the summer rain clouds saw ARKive winning at the UK Charity Awards - the pre-eminent awards programme in the UK's vibrant not-for-profit sector. Winning the 'Animals and the Environment' category, the judges were impressed with the eminent biologists on ARKive's advisory panel and our key accomplishment of collecting the highest quality imagery from private and professional sources around the world.
Why not come and join many of the professional photographers contributing to ARKive at this year's WildPhotos, Wildscreen's fabulous new photography event. If you want to take, improve, publish and perhaps even earn a living from nature photography, then WildPhotos is for you. See below to register for this exciting event.
And in support of the call from Wildscreen patron, Dr Sylvia Earle, for greater awareness of the plight of the world's oceans, this month's creature features highlight some of the amazing marine species that may soon be lost forever, if we fail to take action now...
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Harriet Nimmo
Wildscreen Chief Executive
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Richard Edwards
ARKive Director
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- Northern abalone
- Abalone species are one of the most primitive group of molluscs on the planet, having changed little in the last 500 million years.
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- Lace corals
- Like many other corals, lace corals are threatened by human activities such as coastal development, over-harvesting and climate change.
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- Sea otter
- Sea otters were massively overexploited for their luxurious fur in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, and populations were decimated as a result.
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- Round ribbontail ray
- The Vulnerable round ribbontail ray feeds on bottom-dwelling fish, crabs and shrimp by scooping up animals that are hiding in the sand.
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- Giant clam
- The majority of the giant clam's nutrients are obtained by a mutually beneficial relationship with minute algae known as zooxanthellae.
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- Galapagos marine iguana
- Galapagos marine iguanas are the world's only marine lizards and have evolved laterally flattened tails to assist swimming.
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- Nassau grouper
- The Nassau grouper is one of the larger reef fish and one that has suffered a decline during the 20th Century, mainly as a result of overfishing.
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- Hector's dolphin
- Endemic to New Zealand waters, the Endangered Hector's dolphin is one of the rarest and smallest of marine dolphins.
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- Sand tiger shark
- The sand tiger shark is one of the best-studied of the shark species, but despite protection in some areas this species still appears to be in decline.
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- Leafy seadragon
- Leafy seadragons have a number of leaf-like appendages along the body, which help to make these fish resemble the seaweed of their habitat.
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- Blue whale
- The Endangered blue whale is the largest animal to have ever lived, almost as big as a Boeing 737, and even larger than the biggest dinosaurs.
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- Hawksbill turtle
- This Critically Endangered marine turtle has been exploited for thousands of years as the sole source of commercial tortoiseshell.
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Wildscreen was proud to be a winner at this year's UK Charity Awards, the pre-eminent awards programme in the UK's vibrant not-for-profit sector, that shine a spotlight on exceptional performance in the leadership and management of charities, helping to draw attention to the breadth of talent, commitment and expertise that exists within UK charities.
Winning the 'Animals and the Environment' category, Wildscreen was praised by the judges who cited the fact that Wildscreen had such eminent biologists on its advisory panel and had secured media from many professional sources, who had remained loyal to the project, as 'very impressive'.
So another very big thank you to all our media donors, who have made ARKive such a wonderful success.
For more about the Charity Awards, please go to: www.charityawards.co.uk
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Exploring the power of nature photography
Friday 26 & Saturday 27 October
Royal Geographical Society, Kensington, London
Find out how to take, improve, publish, earn a living from, and make a difference with nature photographs at WildPhotos 2007.
This two-day event brings together many of the world's best wildlife and landscape photographers, plus leading photographic agents and publishers, to offer insights, tips and visions to appeal to everyone with an interest in nature imagery.
Places are strictly limited. Register now at www.wildphotos.org.uk
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This month's Donor Dossier features the contributions of Animals Animals / Earth Scenes, one of the USA's top image libraries.
Since 1976 Animals Animals / Earth Scenes has been a respected provider of rights-managed stock photography, specialising in wildlife and nature, and has been a major contributor to ARKive in recent years.
"Animals Animals / Earth Scenes is proud to be involved in the development of such an important resource. ARKive is used as a reference worldwide to educate and promote the conservation of our natural world, a cause that we whole heartedly endorse. Raising public awareness is an important tool in conserving the diverse wildlife of our planet. This is a program that we plan to continue supporting for years to come."
Nancy Carrizales, Animals Animals / Earth Scenes
As always, we are extremely grateful to all our media donors for their support and enthusiasm.
To see a selection of some of our favourite Animals Animals images, please see: www.arkive.org/MyARKive/Animals_Animals
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Animals Animals / Earth Scenes
17 Railroad Avenue,
Chatham, NY
12037
United States of America
Tel: +1 518 3925500
Fax: +1 518 3925550
Email: info@animalsanimals.com
Website: www.animalsanimals.com
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ARKive has now released its own search tool that can be used from anywhere on the web. ARKive's powerful search, based on Google technology, can now integrate directly into your web browser's instant search box, allowing you immediate access to ARKive's large online collection of species information, images and movies.
For tips on how to use the new search tool go to: www.arkive.org/links.html#howtosearch
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We are always open to suggestions of endangered species that should be included in ARKive. If you have media, or know of its existence, for an endangered species that we have not yet covered, or can add to the collections already in ARKive, then please do let us know. You can contact the ARKive media team on: arkive@wildscreen.org.uk
To find out which species the ARKive media research team are currently working on or to view our most wanted species, please visit the ARKive species lists
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