Natural education at it’s best / Das Beste an Naturedukation
Every natural and landscape photographer has the dream of seeing his own photo in their magazine. 138 years ago, to this day (on the 13th of January 1888) the National Geographic Society was founded. To this day their films and magazines show us the beauty of the natural world. We celebrate this fantastic society with […]
Today we celebrate Tanzania’s National Tree Planting Day. In what way but with a beautiful photo of a tree… If you like this photo you can purchase it at PictRS: https://www.pictrs.com/selldonphotography/8332163 I am a member of tree nation and have my own forest. For every photo purchased, I will donate a new tree to tree […]
This is the last photo of the year 2025 – a fireworks display. It was taken on the 1st of January 2020 at 0:15am and shows my neighbours fireworks. I wish all my followers a Happy New Year and may all your projects be blessed with success… . . . . If you like this […]
The 1970s saw the beginning of the global anti-whaling movement. In 1972 the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment at Stockholm adopted a proposal that recommended a ten-year moratorium on commercial whaling to allow whale stocks to recover. The reports of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in 1977 and 1981 identified […]
Wilhelm Hofmeister (18 May 1824 – 12 January 1877) was a German biologist and botanist. He „stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel. Largely self-taught he was the first to study and establish alternation of generations and the details of […]
Sir David Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the nine nature documentary series forming the Life collection, a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. Attenborough was a […]
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell […]
Galanthus, or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leaves and a single small white drooping bell-shaped flower with six petal-like (petaloid) tepals in two circles (whorls). The smaller inner petals have green markings. Snowdrops have been known since […]
Happy Birthday to Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS (24 February 1743 – 19 June 1820). He was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook’s first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, […]
Papilio machaon, the Old World swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. The butterfly is also known as the common yellow swallowtail or simply the swallowtail (a common name applied to all members of the family, but this species was the first to be given the name). It is the type species of the genus Papilio. This widespread species is found in much of the Palearctic (it […]