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  • Guam; Earl Campbell's brown tree snake research in a jungle area near Andersen Air Force Base. Snakes trapped, tagged, sexed, measured, weighed and released. . There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • Jungle logging camp near Sawa Village in the Asmat swamp of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • A lioness lying in the grass at dawn in Kruger National Park. Northern Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • A male lion lying in the grass at dawn in Kruger National Park. Northern Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • A small naked child cries when he sees a white foreigner in the Village of Komor in the Asmat Swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Irian Jaya was renamed Papua (province).
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  • Thatched hut settlement with gardens in the central highlands of the South Baliem Valley, near Kurima, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • Rainforest "weedbusters" chop & apply herbicide to invasive weeds. The ?weedbusters? of Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii defend the park from the most vexatious invasive plants (Chris Zimmer and Lowell Thomas, rear; Kim Tavares and Bob Mattos, front). They are National Park employees who use machetes and weed killing chemicals to rid sections of forest of non-native invasive plants such as Kahili Ginger, Banana Poka, and Kikuyu (African grass)..Volcano National Park, Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Rainforest "weedbuster" Bob Mattos chopping & applying herbicide to invasive weeds; Kahili Ginger. Volcano National Park Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Aerial of the ancient Mayan city of Calakmul Yucatan, Mexico.  The two large pyramids are covered with trees and vegetation. 1984.
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  • Elephant crossing the road in Kruger National Park. North Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • Relic Rain Forest near Cape Otway, southern Australia. View of the diversity of plant species under the canopy of a sub- tropical rain forest. The rain forests are vast regions of multi-layered floral communities. Tall trunks of the canopy trees are interspersed with species that are more at home in dark conditions. Environmentalists and scientists alike lament the destruction of the Earth's rain forests as one of the great disgraces of humanity: not only are the rain forests a major source of oxygen (from plant respiration) but they are also home to millions of unique plant and animal species. Environment [1989]
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  The Rainforest Biome inside Biosphere 2, with sprinklers running.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. 1991
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  • One of the many rivers snaking through the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Rain Forrest in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico.
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  • Weather: Rainbow over nature preserve researchers Holt and Quizenberry. Waikamoi, island of Maui, Hawaii. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain or mist but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1984)
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Roy Walford, former pathologist at UCLA and one of the eight inhabitants of the Biosphere, seen in the rain forest 'biome'. Walford authored a book titled The Anti-Aging Plan. He died in 2004 at age 79 of ALS. Walford had been involved in the Project since 1983, and set up the Biosphere's medical centre.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization.  MODEL RELEASED 1990
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  • In the lush forests of the Ssese Islands, a small archipelago in Lake Victoria, a village farmer searches for dead palm trees, a source of masinya, or palm grubs (the larvae of the Capricorn beetle). Lake Victoria, Uganda. (Man Eating Bugs page 142,143)
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  • Papapapai Tai waterfall near Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Charles C. Mann, sick and sleeping in a hammock at a jungle camp while visiting the excavation work on the Mayan ruins at Calakmul, Yucatan, Mexico. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Earl Cambell's brown tree snake research site in jungle area near Andersen Air Force Base. Snakes are trapped, tagged, sexed, measured, weighed and released..U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands..There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • A group of loggers living in a jungle camp downriver from Sawa Village in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The people in this camp is logging the forest with hand axes, dragging the huge hardwood logs from deep in the forest over a long path of smaller cross logs. When they get to the river the logs are lashed together in rafts and floated down the river to sell to traders for cash or outboard boat motors. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A group of loggers living in a jungle camp downriver from Sawa Village in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. This group is logging the forest with hand axes, dragging the huge hardwood logs from deep in the forest over a long path of smaller cross logs. When they get to the river the logs are lashed together in rafts and floated down the river to sell to traders for cash or outboard boat motors. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • An Asmat child eats a roasted sago grub (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), cooked by his father in the jungle swamp where his family is processing its main staple food?sago pulp?from the sago palm tree in southernmost Irian Jaya, Indonesia. When roasted on a spit, sago grups are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs page 69 Top)
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • Ta Prohm:. A very large temple complex enclosed by a moat and one of the most beautiful of the Khmer temples as it has not been restored, but has been left surrounded by jungle. It was built by Jayavarman VII in the late 12th century. The temples at Angkor are spread out over some 40 miles around the village of Siem Reap, about 192 miles from the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. They were built between the eighth and 13th centuries and range from single towers made of bricks to vast stone temple complexes. Faith D'Aluisio looks at the tree that has grown up to encase part of the temple.
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  • A woman from Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp, shows a jungle chicken egg which she has just dug up from a 6 foot mound where the bird has made a nest that looks like a compost hump. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Route 103 in Peru over the Andes snakes down into the lowland jungles near the Alta Urubamba River in Peru. The road was traveled during the rainy season and there were many washouts and landslides. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Peru over the Andes snakes down into the lowland jungles near the Alta Urubamba River in Peru. The road was traveled during the rainy season and there were many washouts and landslides. Villagers travel in the back of large trucks that serve as busses. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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