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Binturong - Paris Zoo, February 2024

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An exhibition of Gilles Aillaud’s artworks is presented at the  Librairie Galerie Métamorphoses in the 6 th  arrondissement in Paris.    Gilles Aillaud (1928-2005) was an internationally known French artist, set decorator, and scenographer.  The exhibition is the artwork from the artist’s book “According to Nature –  Encyclopedia of all animals including minerals” – “ D'après nature   –  Encyclopedie de tous les animaux y compris les mineraux”  first published in four volumes from 1988 to 2000, with 194 lithographs of the animal world – all painted by Gilles Aillaud. The current edition was reprinted in 2010 by editor Andre Dimanche.    The animals include wolf, giraffe, owl, egret, bull, crocodile, bear, lion, donkey, and crow for example. Some of the drawings were sketched during his Kenya expedition for Volume 2.   MARTINA NICOLLS martina@iimetro.com.au Skype: martina.nicolls MartinaNicollsWebsite   ...

Cambodia’s oldest elephant, Sambo, died on 19 October 2023, and the country is  mourning.     She was the oldest elephant in Cambodia, aged 63, and survived the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s. When the Khmer Rouge took power, Sambo’s owner Sin Sorn had to hand her over to the Khmer Rouge authorities, with five other elephants. They all died in the poor living conditions, with Sambo the only survivor.   Sin Sorn and Sambo reunited at the end of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 – she was in the mountains and very weak.    She served the local tourism industry at the Wat Phnom site in Phnom Penh from 1980 until 2012, when she got a foot infection. She retired from active duty in 2014.    In 2014, the American government, through its foreign aid department, USAID, helped move Sambo from Phnom Penh to her retirement home in Mondulkiri, where she spent her remaining nine years surrounded by the lush green forests she loved.   Sadly, the Elephant Val...

  In Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris, on the sidewalk, outside  Les Maisons du Voyage , is a presentation of world renown photographer Brent Stirton’s work as part of the second edition of the Social and Environmental Biennial Climate Photo exhibition called ‘Save from Extinction.’ It runs from 14 September to 15 October 2023.   France’s  Le Figaro  magazine and  Les Maisons du Voyage  –  The House of Travel  – joined forces to raise public awareness of the beauties of our natural heritage to honour Brent Stirton’s photographic reportage.   It shows photographs of gorillas, elephants, and the pangolin. Telling the story of the erosion of biodiversity, and the disappearance of animal species is ‘a driving force’ for Brent Stirton. He says, ‘It makes me angry and makes me more determined to make images that people will react to.’   Brent Stirton was born in South Africa in 1969. Now based in New York, he is a senior photographer for Get...

\ Wandi  by Favel Parrett (2021) is a children’s story set in Australia.  Wandi is an small alpine dingo cub sleeping in a den on a snowy mountain in Australia when he awoke and wandered about, counting the night stars. An eagle scooped up Wandi to carry him away. But the eagle dropped him. Wandi found himself in someone’s garden. He had never seen a human before. Dingoes don’t bark, so he couldn’t scare the human away. Dingoes are not pets, like dogs, but this human, called Lyn, was treating him like one. Wandi liked it.  He became the most famous dingo in the world.  This is a delightful little tale for children learning about the Australian dingo.    The author worked as a volunteer at the Dingo Discovery Sanctuary and Research Centre, where she fell in love immediately with the dingoes, especially the one she called Wandi. Wandi still lives there.    MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite Rainy Day Healing Martinasblogs    Publication...