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I certainly do know who you are talking about.
Tim
London, Aug 5 (IANS) Humans are eating their closest relatives into extinction, particularly in Southeast Asia, alarmed conservationists have revealed.
Nearly half of the world's 634 species of monkeys, apes and other primates are in danger of going extinct, the world's top experts in primates were told at a meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.
According to new data released by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at the 22nd International Primatological Society, 303 of the primates species face the possibility of extinction in the world, while 69 species are critically endangered.
'Tropical forest destruction has always been the main cause, but now it appears that hunting is just as serious a threat in some areas, even where the habitat is still quite intact," said Russell A. Mittermeier, chairman of the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group.
"In many places, primates are quite literally being eaten to extinction," he added.
In Cambodia - the country with the worst record - 90 percent of the native primate species are struggling to survive, partly because they are hunted as ingredients for Chinese traditional medicine.
The figure for Vietnam is 86 percent, Indonesia 84 percent, Laos 83 percent and China 79 percent.
'What is happening in Southeast Asia is terrifying,' said Jean-Christophe Vie, deputy head of the IUCN Species Programme. 'To have a group of animals under such a high level of threat is, quite frankly, unlike anything we have recorded among any other group of species to date.'
Populations of gibbons, leaf monkeys, langurs and other species have dwindled due to rampant habitat loss exacerbated by hunting for food and to supply the wildlife trade in traditional Chinese medicine and pets, said the researchers, whose findings are to be made public in October.
The artist is cool, so i checked the prints he sells on etsy.com....and spent half an hour checking out hand made purses!!! maaaan....i'm just so vain sometimes!
Another John Millais painting. I reckon that this one was an inspiration for Lewis Carroll's white knight.
"Vacancy in Glass" by Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, trans. David Rattray
To a palace made
Of wind
To a palace whose towers
Are pillars of fire by day
To an opal palace
In the sky's zenith heart
The bird of pale air
Flies
In a swift white line
On black space
A brushstroke
Signifying absence
"To the North Wind" by Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907-1943), trans. David Rattray
Alive yet not alive you crawl in stone
Prisoner of an air castle
Lover in a dream
Crushed in advance
By the heavy heavy
Marble anchor of the
Death you have been howling for for a hundred centuries
In the ravages and corpses you embody
Alert scarecrow wicket in the north wind
Giddily dancing in a cold sweat
On a footing of slippery air where your weight is the weight of fear
A burst heart empty of blood and woe
Caught in frozen air
At the stony edge of space
Sealed for eternity in the crystal icebox of the sky.
Thanks once again mr. Tourner! What a wonderful selection of pictures. I'm off to print them out and put them in my family album.
Ok...there you go!
That's all I have in mind at the moment.....@.@
BAD BAD BAD!
Dein Bild erinnert an "Die Pest" von Arnold Böcklin
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (1887), by Alexandre Cabanel:
Thank you for that image, mr. Tourner. Fascinating!
Tobias, thanks for reminding me about Trakl's grave by sending me that painting. I did find his grave... sort of... didn't use the shovel though. More details later in a thread.
The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Edouard Fournier
I spent the flight of my days
spying the sea
I love every waving thing
When I smiled
my teeth were mysterious
there are waves in my soul
The edge of my clothes
was salty and fresh
I love every waving thing
Speak to me of my death
so that I feel a reason to remember
Today I'm afraid of having been
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