leicamann Posted March 23, 2012 Share #1 Â Posted March 23, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thanks for looking Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 Hi leicamann, Take a look here 45 year old. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
pauledell Posted March 23, 2012 Share #2 Â Posted March 23, 2012 John, Â A fine shot with the composition (excellent juxtaposition between the subject and its friend below), Vivid colors, definition and sharpness. Â Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 23, 2012 Share #3 Â Posted March 23, 2012 John - Â Gorgeous. The hyacinth macaw has become rather rare, I imagine due ot habitat loss and the exotic pet trade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share #4  Posted March 24, 2012 Thanks Paul and Stuart  Yes these birds are actually endangered due 100% to deforestation. Brazil has an impossible situation, where poor people are exploited by ranchers to settle near protected areas, log illegally and then are either arrested, shot, or forced off by some form of terror by the mafia ranchers. So year after year this goes on relentlessly, to say nothing of other forms of industrial exploitation. Its a form of ecological suicide. The Amazon as a living , breathing entity is worth much more than the logs, oil, minerals and hydro powers that can be slaughtered out of it. As they say, insanity is when you do something over and over again expecting different results, we have become our own worst enemy, by stupidity and ignorance.   Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michali Posted March 25, 2012 Share #5 Â Posted March 25, 2012 John- Superb in every aspect! Â Very tragically the story is being repeated right across the planet. Africa is also currently facing an onslaught on its wildlife unlike anything seen since the dark days of the 1970s. Rhino and elephant are being slaughtered in their thousands in order to satisfy the demand for rhino horn and ivory in the East. The problem has escalated out of control with the "colonization" of Africa by the Chinese as the continent is being raped and plundered for its natural and mineral resources. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_peter_m Posted March 25, 2012 Share #6 Â Posted March 25, 2012 John, Â The same thing is happening in your back yard.... its the timber barons up here that wreck havoc. Â Very nice photo. Â Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share #7  Posted March 25, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you everyone...... gosh. I don't know what to say Mike about Africa. as Peter said..we have similar industrial logging going on in Northern BC, I clearly remember on the road to New Aiyansh, waiting.. in 1 hr..at least 50 trucks in each direction went zooming by, they couldn't log it fast enough..thats BC were we are supposed to live in a civilized democracy..... now what about Africa where just about every second nation is at war:confused:  The good news is that despite our folly and insanity, the earth keeps rotating and the clouds keep forming, whats a 1million years for the earth to recover from this experiment we call Humanity?Hopefully the newer species will not lose that understanding that we are all part of an inextricable linked whole?  Thanks for your comments and thank you's  Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_peter_m Posted March 26, 2012 Share #8 Â Posted March 26, 2012 We don't need any of those exotic dooms day events, we do a mighty fine job destroying ourselves :-( Â Earth will heal but we probably be lost in the process. Â Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaques Posted March 26, 2012 Share #9 Â Posted March 26, 2012 This is the story of the world. Â The Earth will undoubtedly heal- it seems to have a strong will to live. Even if we set of every nuke at once life would go on. Â Humans will perish as all things must. It's just a shame we are gonna take so much down with us- and bring forward the fateful day as much as we can:confused: Â On another hand everthing is slated for destruction at some point... perhaps the exact day is meaningless- and on a cosmic level perhaps it's all OK? Out with the old: in with the new? Â and on the third hand in the fourth dimension: perhaps there are infinite Earths and therefore infinite parrots? Â Having said all that: we really need to protect what is certain and try to save what is left of nature. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olsen Posted March 26, 2012 Share #10 Â Posted March 26, 2012 Tell him that he does not look a day older than 29! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share #11 Â Posted March 28, 2012 ..... Parrots and Macaws have been known to live for a longgggggggggg time...some people who have them as pets, put them in their wills!! Â Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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