Critically Endangered portfolio review

Critically Endangered portfolio reviewA critically endangered Black Rhinoceros. Theres a misconception that poaching of rhino is a recent phenomenon. Although numbers increased exponentially in the last century, poaching has been occurring since 1200 BC. The horns were once shaped as wine cups, and the thick skin to manufacture armour for soldiers, belts and even crowns in China. In the Middle East the horns were carved to make the handles of ceremonial daggers known as Jambiyas.

These impregnable ice walls tower over the landscape and created the Great Barrier to early explorers like Shackleton

In the clear turquoise seas surrounding the Fiji islands an ethereal dolphin dances in a pool of light in front of my bow

A storm front rises over a rugged and weathered glacial cap stained by blue and pink Snow Algae

Andean Condor gliding above the jagged teeth of the Andes massif

Residing in seasonally flooded forests the bright red facial skin is a sign of good health and mating viability

Most male lions are not imbedded in a pride permanently and have to hunt for themselves

in the frame to listen

Atlantic Puffin with Sandeels

Greenland is a tortured landscape of rock and ice

A female Leopard surveys a woodland at dawn from the fork of a tree

air and water

and why they were important to me