Images Dated 31st March 2008

Wild Poppy or Field Poppy - against sea and sky

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Wild Poppy or Field Poppy - against sea and sky
Mani Peninsula, Peloponnese, south Greece.
Papaver rhoeas
Bob Gibbons
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Arable Weed, Card, Coastal, Cornfield Weed, Europe, European, Flower, Flowering Plant, Flowers, Greece, Invasive, Landscape, Landscapes, Mediterranean, Pla Nts, Plant, Poppies, Poppy, Red, Scarlet, Scen Ic, Sea, Weed

Kauri Forest - Kauri trees surrounded by ferns as undergrowth

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Kauri Forest - Kauri trees surrounded by ferns as undergrowth
Trounson Kauri Park Scenic Reserve, Northland, North Island, New Zealand
Agathis australis
The felling of nearly all of New Zealand's Kauri forests is a very sad story. The oldest of the few giant Kauris that are left are over 1200 years old and deliver an unbelievable volume of valuable wood. That is the reason why nearly all of them were felled starting from around 150 years ago when the Europeans entered the land. In just over 100 years logging gum-digging and burning transformed the northern landscape from forest to farmland. A final push to extract the last Kauri swept through the north of New Zealand in the 1920s-30s reducing the beleaguered forest to the few patches surviving today. Despite being reduced to less than 5 % of their former extent
Steffen & Alexandra Sailer
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JZ-3120 Plains Spadefoot Toad - series of images showing the toad turning and digging down into the sand using his spade like foot

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Plains Spadefoot Toad - series of images showing the toad turning and digging down into the sand using his spade like foot.
South Texas in March.
Spea bombifrons
Sequence 6 of 9
Jim Zipp
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