Bird photo for Friday

May 09, 2013  •  Leave a Comment
It really feels like winter has arrived in New Zealand. The recent torrential rain and dips in temperature have signaled the warm dry weather is at an end. With the onset of winter comes the local birds foraging for food. Their searches become increasingly demanding as their warm weather food sources wane. This is the time of the year when we ge...
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Mapping tiger smuggling

November 04, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
One of the first problems I ran into with researching tiger smuggling was the bias. A lot of the studies had been done by organisations based in India. Imaginative and creative arrows were being drawn across India, Nepal, into Tibet and over into the eastern provinces of China. The two big gaps were interdiction rates inside China, and the case of...
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Smuggler caught with 16 Tiger Cubs

October 28, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
A colleague drew my attention to this story out of Thailand BBC-News Thailand The story is principally about a truck-driver, paid to smuggle 16 tiger cubs from Thailand into Laos. The driver was caught when he attempted to avoid a police checkpoint. With 16 cubs, it is practically certain these same from a 'breeding facility' within Thailand. T...
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Tuesday #Travel - The beat goes on

October 22, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
This shot was from Jilin in Northern China. Jilin is one of the tiger-smuggling hot spots within China, which is really just a product of its geography. It has a border with the Russian Far East (and includes a relic population of Amur or Siberian tigers). On one evening we went 'cultural' and part of the performance was these traditional Chines...
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The Birds of Spring

October 07, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
It's been a tough few weeks for photography as work pressure and turbulent weather has got in the way of employing the camera. I recently got a Sony 2x Teleconverter (off Trademe) and have been hoping to test it out. I've been happy with the 1.4x TC for a while but appreciate that image quality does take a small hit with a TC. On the other hand, my...
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