Showing posts with label polar bear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label polar bear. Show all posts

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Concurso Internacional Wildlife Photographer Of The Year : E a escolha do público é...





 'Ice bed'
credit: de Nima Sarikhani / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year



A fotografia de um urso-polar (Ursus maritimus) a dormitar num pedaço de gelo inclinado venceu o Prémio do público do Concurso de Fotografia Wildlife Photographer of the Year, promovido pelo Museu Britânico de História Natural.


Com o título ‘Ice Bed’, traduzido para português “cama de gelo”, a imagem foi captada por Nima Sarikhani, ao largo do arquipélago norueguês de Svalbard, durante uma expedição para encontrar ursos-polares.


Ao fim de três dias no mar, e sem sinal de ursos polares, a embarcação em que Nima seguia mudou de rumo. Encaminhou-se para uma zona onde havia ainda algum gelo. E a sorte sorriu-lhe ! Dois ursos-polares apareceram por entre os pedaços de gelo.


Por volta da meia-noite, um dos animais, um jovem macho, subiu a um pequeno icebergue e, com as patas munidas de fortes garras, começou a escavar uma cama no gelo. A câmara fotográfica de Nima captou o momento em que o urso, depois de bem aconchegado, se deixou cair em sono profundo.


Douglas Gurr, director do Museu de História Natural, afirma, em comunicado, que a fotografia “deslumbrante e comovente” de Nima “nos permite ver a beleza e a fragilidade do nosso planeta”.


Para o responsável, essa imagem mostra-nos a importância da ligação “entre um animal e o seu habitat” e serve como “uma representação visual dos impactos prejudiciais do aquecimento climático e da perda de habitat”.


O autor da fotografia espera que a fotografia, além de alertar para a forma como estamos a tratar o planeta Terra, bem como as consequências disso, resultantes para todas as outras formas de vida que vivem nele. além de nós, possa também “inspirar esperança”.


“Embora as alterações climáticas sejam o maior desafio que enfrentamos”, assinala Sarikhani, “ainda há tempo para resolvermos a confusão que causámos”.


A fotografia do urso-polar sonhador venceu o voto do público superando as 24 outras imagens que foram a concurso, de um total de quase 50 mil candidaturas.




 
'Ice bed'
credit: de Nima Sarikhani / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
via BBC


A stunning image of a young polar bear drifting to sleep on an iceberg, by British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani, has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.


"Sarikhani's breathtaking and poignant image allows us to see the beauty and fragility of our planet," Natural History Museum director Dr Douglas Gurr said :


"His thought-provoking image is a stark reminder of the integral bond between an animal and its habitat and serves as a visual representation of the detrimental impacts of climate warming and habitat loss."

Sarikhani made the image after three days searching for polar bears through thick fog off Norway's Svalbard archipelago.


Wildlife photography and nature fans from around the world were invited to vote from a short list of 25 images. And here is the winner!


The five images will be displayed online and at London's Natural History Museum until 30 June.


Note: All photos copyright Wildlife Photographer of the Year 


A beautiful and moved shot"


Geração 'polar'


07.02.2024





sources: GreenSavers/ BBC/ Natural History Museum



Saturday, December 31, 2016

Top dos posts mais lidos 2016 de Geração Polar : #semestre2






 What a wonderful world ... 
David Attenborough with a polar bear 
BBC's Frozen Planet documentary
credits: BBC

2017 está aí. As férias de Natal terminam dentro de dias. Como fizemos já para o 1º semestre 2016, apresentamos agora uma súmula das nossas publicações do ano 2016, 2º semestre, do blog Geração Polar

A selecção é baseada no número de visitantes dos posts mais lidos. 

Mas antes, gostaríamos de falar sobre o documentário BBC Frozen Planet que está a causar bastante celeuma.

Parece que a imprensa atacou o documentário BBC Frozen Planet devido ao uso de imagens de zoológicos. 

O documentário causou fortes críticasLeia mais




Frozen Planet showed newborn polar bear cubs 
at a wildlife centre in the Netherlands rather than the Arctic
credits: BBC

Looking back at 2016 we have come up with our roundup of what's been most-read on the blog Geração Polar. After the 1st semester 2016, now the selection of 2nd semester 2016. 

The selection is based on page views of the most read posts.

But before we would like to talk about the BBC Frozen Planet documentary. The press has attacked the BBC documentary over its use of zoo footage. No positive images of journalists The press have recent attacks on the BBC documentary Frozen PlanetRead more


Here the Top of the Most-Read Blog Posts of 2016 :

Help ! Urso polar 'mais triste do mundo' não vai ter nova casa 

Pausa férias : O que se passa no Árctico reflecte-se no mundo 

Gelo do Mont Blanc : compreender o aquecimento global 

Gronelândia aquece : cientistas preocupados, população feliz 

Maior Santuário Marinho na Antárctida Protegido

SOS Planeta : Before the Flood & Leonardo DiCaprio 

Oceano Árctico, temperatura mais quente do que o normal

NASA : Que quantidade de gelo perdeu o Árctico? 

O 105º Aniversário 1ª Expedição ao Pólo Sul homenageada com Doodle 






Pizza, the polar bear in the Grandview Aquarium, Guangzhou, China
credits: Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Our crush of the year, 2nd semester? Only one. We want to help once more Pizza, the polar bear. We are engaged on its safety and wellbeing.

Pizza, the sadest polar bear of the world. Living in the  Grandview Aquarium, Guangzhou, China.

Very sad. Shocking. Help ! Urso polar 'mais triste do mundo' não vai ter nova casa 

A tragic polar bear trapped in a mall in Guangzhou China has been offered a new home after his heartbreaking plight made worldwide headlines.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, England, is making this public offer to Grandview in Guangzhou, China after being alerted to the issue by Animals Asia and its ongoing campaign to close the facility.
Animals Asia has collected over half a million signatures demanding the closure of the Grandview Aquarium, which includes the bear called Pizza, as its star attraction. The campaign has featured on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and in newspapers across the globe with the media dubbing Pizza, “the world’s saddest bear”.


Unfortunately, the Chinese aquarium said it has no need for foreign interference, after activists offered to move the animal to a British zoo. And Pizza lives always in horrible conditions. 
Later in November global anger at the plight of 'the saddest polar bear in the world', who was caged in appalling conditions in a Chinese shopping mall, has borne fruit, with the mall owners agreeing to send him back to the ocean park where he was born. 
Earlier this year a viral video of the three-year-old bear, called Pizza, slumped on his side, her mouth quivering, broke the hearts of animal lovers around the world. 

'No amount of renovation could ever make a shopping mall a suitable place for this animal, and to send him back now would be cruel and heartless.'

Qin Xiaona, director of Capital Animal Welfare Association, said: 'It's a good decision, the right decision for Pizza, but it's not the end. 


'Temporary is not good enough. Now we hope that Grandview will learn from this episode and move Pizza permanently so that he never again has to endure the dreadful life in a shopping mall. We hope so too.



Don't forget to visit the the roundup of what's been most-read #semester2 of our polar blog Geração Verde.


May the New Year be a polar defender!
Geração 'explorer'

31.12.2016
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Top dos posts mais lidos 2016 de Geração Polar : #semestre1






No snow no ice?
A solitary bear sits on the edge of one of the Barter Islands. There is no snow, when at this time of year, there should be
credits: Patty Waymire


2017 está aí. As férias de Natal terminam dentro de dias. Apresentamos agora uma súmula das nossas publicações do ano 2016, 1º semestre.


Mas antes, não resistimos a partilhar as fotografias dos Vencedores de Nature  Photographer of the Year Contest 2016Fotografias fantásticas!




Rockhopper penguins run to the safety of the water in the Falkland Islands 
when faced with a southern giant petrel
Paul Mckenzie/Barcroft Images

Passamos então aos posts mais lidos de 2016 do Blog Geração Polar, 1º semestre

A selecção é baseada no número de visitantes dos posts mais lidos.




Fox in the Arctic Circle
credits: Ivan Kislov

Here it comes 2017. We decide to show you the posts of the year 2016, 1st semester.


But first, we don't resist sharing with you the winners of nature photographers National Geographic:  Nature  Photographer of the Year Contest 2016. Awesome photos!


A polar bear mother in cub, Alaska, 2016
credits: Patty Waymire

Looking back at 2016 we have come up with our roundup of what's been most-read on our Blog Geração Polar, 1st semester.


The selection is based on page views of the most read posts.







Fox in the Arctic Circle
credits: Ivan Kislov


Here the Top of the Most-Read Blog Posts of 2016 :





Dr. José Xavier na Antárctida, 2008
créditos: José Xavier

Our crush of the year, 1st semester? Well we have two. Yes. 

Dr. José Xavier : Membro Honorário do BAS, um tributoWe are the students helped by our teacher of Languages & Literature who started to learn about polar education and created this blog, Geração Polar

We were prepared to talk with Dr José Xavier at our school. Unfortunately the school was closed by a strike and we couldn't meet the polar scientist who gently accepted the invitation of our teacher Prof. Gsouto.






Filme O Senhor dos Anéis
credits: DR
The second? Lembra Senhor dos Anéis? Monte Ruapehu perigo de erupção. This one for reading reasons. We loved to know The Lord of Rings sequel read in Languages curriculum.

It was so excited to follow the adventures of Frodo that passed by Mount Ruapehu, made famous by the Lord of the Rings films.



Don't forget to visit the the roundup of what's been most-read #semester1 of our polar blog Geração Verde.



May the New Year be a polar defender!



Happy New Year ! 


Geração 'polar'

27.12.2016


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