Arnaud Wildlife Photography

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09/09/2022

Salut tout le monde, je reprends un peu d'activité sur ce réseau le temps de vous partager cette belle initiative à laquelle j'ai la chance de participer !

Il y a quelques semaines, j'ai fait don de cette photo - prise au Kenya dans le Parc National d'Amboseli - à Prints for Wildlife afin de lever des fonds pour la conservation en Afrique et en soutien à African Parks (Organisation à but non lucratif). Le but étant de les aider à atteindre leur objectif de 30 aires naturelles sous leur protection d'ici 2030.

En quelques chiffres, Prints for Wildlife c'est :
- plus de 100 photographes issus de 30+ pays qui s'unissent pour une cause commune
- presque 2 M$ récoltés depuis sa création en 2020 en plein cœur de la pandémie
- 100% de la somme recueillie par les ventes reversée directement à African Parks
- des tirages premium limités à 100 exemplaires par photo sur papier Hahnemühle Natural et vendus 100$ pièce (pas donné, mais très très quali).

Si vous souhaitez participer ou connaissez quelqu'un qui souhaiterait s'offrir un de ces magnifiques prints pour une bonne cause (que ce soit le mien ou pas 😜), n'hésitez pas à partager tout ça ! Je vous mets quelques liens juste en dessous !

➡️ Acheter mon print : https://bit.ly/3QzypTw
➡️ Tous les prints : https://bit.ly/3d1Mo6Q
➡️ Plus d'infos sur Prints for Wildlife : https://bit.ly/3KZexbn
➡️ Plus d'infos sur African Parks : https://bit.ly/2XRtAuo

Merci à tous 🙏🙏

Will this print by end up on your wall, soon?

We know that many of you have been with us from the beginning and have filled your walls with wildlife prints in support of AfricanParksNetwork] over the past three years. We couldn't be more thankful for your love and trust and we'd like to showcase the support you've been giving us. So we're starting a little series and we'd love for you to be a part of it! Send us pictures of your photo walls and print(s) and tell us your story via DM. We'll share it all in our IG stories starting Friday!

♦︎ Prints for Wildlife is a photo print fundraiser for wildlife and communities, that runs from August 28 to September 25, 2022 - for the benefit of AfricanParksNetwork]. All prints are printed on Natural Line H**p paper.

26/06/2022

Already got the look 😼

📷 Lion d’Afrique / African Lion (Panthera leo)

14/06/2022

The Blue Arrow.

📷 Martin-pêcheur d’Europe / Common Kingfisher

12/06/2022

Fluffy ! 🥰

📷 Pic épeichette / Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

25/05/2022

Very common yet beautiful Eurasian Blue Tit!

24/05/2022

Long-tailed bushtits are one of my favorite sightings when I go on a small hike in the morning! You can often hear them approaching in small family groups. So, if you sit still in the right spot, they’ll be jumping from branch to branch all around you for a brief moment before vanishing again into the dense bushes. Quite nerve wracking to photograph, but well worth the wait 😌

16/05/2022

Back to work 📸
Greyceful in flight.

09/04/2020

Spring is in full swing! 🌸

18/02/2020

❤️❤️

It’s been over a week since we received the call that Tim had been found dead, and we’re still mourning his loss. But if there’s good news to be found in this tragedy, it’s this: he died from natural causes.

The post-mortem diagnosis, which took most of the day to confirm, as Tim had to be flipped over first, was that he died from a twisted gut. The theory is that this might happen due to a build up of gas from overly green vegetation, which Greater Amboseli is rich with at the moment following plentiful rains. It’s a painful way to die, but there’s nothing we could have done. And we take comfort that his death it wasn’t at the hands of man.

They’d certainly tried. His appetite for local crops made him a target of angry farmer’s spears, and his immense tusks put him in the crosshairs of poachers. We all knew his tusks likely exceeded a hundred pounds, but no one knew their true size. Now we know they measured an impressive 160 and 134 pounds, making him truly one of the last great tuskers.

His loss has been felt across the ecosystem. The local community had grown to respect and admire Tim, as he spent most of his time outside Amboseli National Park and was frequently spotted on community land heading towards Kimana Sanctuary, where Big Life’s rangers worked to keep him safe. He was an integral part of the ecosystem, and a powerful demonstration that it is possible for humans to coexist with megafauna.

This is a loss for those who lived near him, for those who protected him, for those who traveled far-and-wide to see him and photograph him, for those who studied him, and for the elephants he spent his time with, particularly Tolstoy.

Lala salama, Tim.

Photo: Johan Marais

16/02/2020