#national geographic society

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If you want another example of "graphic design is illegal now" look at the flag of the National Geographic Society. It looks like something I threw together in mspaint in 30 seconds.

Oh wait, it is!

Here's the real flag:

They have disney money, and this is the best they can do? No wonder they stopped publishing the magazine!

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I can notice how fascinated Jane is with chimps, even with all the complications of getting into an unknown wild territory and being just a young woman with barely any knowledge about primatology, she still adventured herself in the midst of the african jungles. Jane Goodall is indeed a remarkable woman, along with Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, they all brought unparalleled knowledge about primatology and related fields.

Channel: Institut Jane Goodall France

Video: Jane Goodall : Retrospective

Year: 1960 - 2013

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Lonnelle Aikman - Nature's Healing Arts: From Folk Medicine to Modern Drugs - NGS - 1977 (photographs by Nathan Benn and Ira Block)

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National Geographic Magazine - August 1970.

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[The NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY]

"Bird Songs of Garden, Woodland and Meadow"

(6x6"EP flexi. National Geographic. 1964) [US]

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National Geographic Society and De Beers Proudly Announce World Premiere of Nkashi: Race for the Okavango to Take Place in Botswana

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Women: The National Geographic Image Collection

Women: The National Geographic Image Collection. Edited by Susan Goldberg. National Geographic, 2023, c2019.. 9781426223198 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Hardcover What did you like about the book? Images of women over the course of most of the National Geographic Society’s existence comprise this volume of photography. The photographs span over one hundred…

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Pathways to Discovery: Exploring America's National Trails, by National Geographic Society, 1981

Bought at my local library

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Wayfinder Award: Another Distinguished Somalilander Wins Another International Award

Among this year’s @InsideNatGeo #WayfinderAward recipients is @SomaliHeritage, a #Somaliland-born #archeologist whose scholarly works have shed much light on #Somali & #HornOfAfrica #ancient #civilizations. Congratulations to Dr Sada Mire

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Financing for conservation through Partnerships - Panel Discussion.

On 3 March 2023, the CITES Secretariat will collaborate with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (US-FWS), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility (GEF Secretariat) to hold the first WWD event in Washington D.C., the birthplace of CITES. The National Geographic Society has graciously offered its Grosvenor Auditorium as the venue of WWD 2023.

Jackson WILD and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) have once again offered to organize the WWD Film showcase and the youth art competition, respectively, to showcase the power of visual arts that could bring people together to raise awareness and promote discussions among different parts of the world.

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s/o @pwlanier for the spotlight on some choice lots in the National Geographic Society's 2012 attic clearing sale at Christie's.

One that caught my eye was Maynard Owen Williams' 1931 photo of the Great Buddha in Bamian, Afghanistan, a monumental 6th century relief sculpture destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

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About one-third of all shark species are threatened—and tens of millions are killed each year ​by commercial fishing industries. Photograph By David Maupile/Laif/Redux

Sharks Are Still Being Killed At High Rates—Despite Bans On Finning

Shark fishing regulations, including bans on cutting off fins, increased tenfold since 2000. Yet a new study shows that deaths may have actually ticked up as new markets for shark meat emerge.

— By Tim Vernimmen | January 11, 2024

In 2019 at least 79 million sharks died in fisheries, and at least 25 million of those belonged to threatened species—numbers that have stayed steady or even risen in the past decade.

Compared to 10 years ago, fewer of those sharks died because people cut off their fins and threw them back into the sea—a practice known as finning that is now prohibited in about 70 percent of countries and overseas territories. But regulations that have reduced the frequency of finning have not saved shark lives, an international research team reports in the journal Science this week.

“If anything, global shark mortality has slightly increased,” says Boris Worm, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Canada. Now most sharks are landed whole, and a growing demand for shark products has driven fisheries to continue catching the animals.

Worm and seven colleagues spent the past three years collecting data on shark mortality and fishery regulations. “This was really a challenge,” he says, “as shark fisheries are notoriously underreported. We compiled everything we could find, from catch numbers to data from observers on boats in international waters to estimates of coastal fishing that include recreational, artisanal, and even illegal fishing.”

Employees of the Kowalski fishing industry in Santa Catarina, Brazil, wash sharks recently caught in ocean fishing. Photograph By Victor MoriyamaFor National Geographic

A counter in a Chinese medicine shop in Taipei sells shark fins. Photograph By Michael Wolf Estate/Laif/Redux

The global analysis reveals that even though there has been a tenfold increase in regulations on shark fishing and finning, mortality in the past decade remained more or less the same, with estimates of 76 million dead sharks due to fishing in 2012 and at least 80 million in 2018. Given that not all catches are reported in sufficient detail and some aren’t recorded at all, the researchers say, the number of deaths is likely to be significantly higher.

A Shark 🦈 Market

Marine ecologist Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in Canada, who has not involved in the study, points out finning regulations did help “to ensure many catches could be identified to the species level, which is necessary for catch and trade limits” and also aids research. “Regulation of international trade has now begun, with the protection of over 100 shark species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora,” he says.

While these trade regulations appear to have led to fewer sharks getting killed in international fisheries, coastal fisheries have started catching more sharks.

To try to understand why that might be, the researchers interviewed 22 experts including scientists, conservationists, and people working in fisheries or companies that process shark products. “They’ve told us that existing markets for shark products have expanded,” says marine conservation scientist Laurenne Schiller of Carleton University in Canada, a co-author of the study. “Which may be due in part to the increased availability of sharks resulting from anti-finning regulations.”

Shark meat, even from endangered sharks, is increasingly found in a variety of food products, and not just in still-popular shark fin soup. Shark is also often used in fish and chips, in ceviche, or as a fraudulent alternative for swordfish.

In addition, shark cartilage and liver oil are common ingredients in the medical and cosmetics industries. “Many beauty products contain squalene,” Schiller says, “which usually, but not necessarily, derives from sharks. So it’s good to look for products that use plant-based alternatives instead.”

The researchers say that that to save sharks, anti-finning laws clearly do not suffice, and there need to be more extensive fishing regulations.

“There are 29 countries and overseas territories that have already prohibited shark fishing in their waters,” says Worm. “The Bahamas, for example, have discovered that sharks were worth much more as a dive attraction for the ecotourism industry, which is booming. On average, we see such prohibitions are the only tool that consistently reduced mortality, so we would encourage that.”

Fishermen go out fishing sharks in Cananeia, a coastal town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Restrictions on species allowed for fishing have led many local fishermen to specialize in other fish and crustaceans such as shrimp and sea bass. Photograph By Victor MoriyamaFor National Geographic

Gillnets Kill

In places where people depend on fisheries for their livelihoods or sustenance, bans may not be appropriate, but keeping fisheries at sustainable levels is crucial to maintaining wild populations.

“This includes, of course, science-based catch limits for sharks,” says Schiller. “But many interviewees also told us about the dangers of unselective fishing gears, like gillnets.” These walls of netting that hang vertically in the water column are designed to catch fish by their gills, and they tend to entangle every animal that is too large to fit through the mesh. “Our own analyses show they are commonly used in the places we identify as mortality hotspots. So phasing them out and encouraging more selective practices in places like Indonesia, Brazil, Mauritania, or Mexico could have a big impact,” Schiller says.

“We know that shark populations are under enormous pressure from fishing throughout much of the world’s oceans,” says marine biologist Colin Simpfendorfer of James Cook University in Australia, who was not involved in the study, “and the data presented in this new paper add further evidence.”

While finning regulations have not led to decreased shark deaths, Simpfendorfer points out they weren’t designed to reduce catches, but to prevent suffering and the waste of sharks being killed for their fins alone.

Without increased efforts to protect sharks, at least one in three species will face the threat of extinction, and many more are suffering population declines.

“I have many colleagues who are oceanographers, and they tell me that in the 70s and 80s, there were always sharks following the vessel because of the kitchen scraps they threw overboard—typically oceanic whitetips, a formerly very abundant species that is now endangered and hardly ever seen. I’ve never seen one in my life,” says Worm. “That’s when you get that sinking feeling that something is really wrong with the way we’re treating them. We should fix that, and we can.”

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National Geographic Magazine - September 1971.

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Yeah this checks out.

Steller’s jay stealing sweetener packets

National Geographic photo contest 2011

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"This week on Planetary Radio, we take a peek behind the scenes at National Geographic's new documentary, “The Space Race,” which celebrates the triumphs and struggles of the first African-American space pioneers and astronauts. Co-directors Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortés, space pioneer Ed Dwight, and astronaut Leland Melvin join us to discuss the film."