Asian Elephant Light Scultpure
by Miroslava Jurcik
Title
Asian Elephant Light Scultpure
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Asian Elephant Light sculpture in Taronga 100th birthday parade.
Once common throughout the Asian continent, there are now thought to be as few as 34,000 Asian Elephants in the wild. The population has been reduced by over 75 per cent in the last 70 years. The fact that about 20 per cent of the Earth’s population lives in and around the habitats of these elephants, explains the decline.
A conservation breeding program for the Australasian region, driven by Taronga’s experts and partner zoos, is a vital part of the international effort towards elephant management. This regional conservation breeding program is designed to build a self-sustaining population of Asian Elephants in Australia, to learn more about caring for elephants, to ensure a genetically strong and healthy herd and ultimately to generate funds and other resources for conservation in the wild. This requires the commitment and hard work of the major zoos in Australia and New Zealand.
The success of this program at Taronga is demonstrated by the births of the first Asian Elephant in Australia, Luk Chai, in 2009 and the more recent births of Pathi Harn and female Tukta.
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November 15th, 2016
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Alana Thrower
Wonderful image! So glad this is an important event in Australia! So glad people are somewhat aware! l/f/g+/t/p
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
So nice our path come across on FAA Miroslava!! we can talk until we cannot type anymore lol :D thanks again for all these wonderful chats!! :)
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
Yes, i totally understand why our population is well under control in the past too, i wasn't surprise. now we have better medical care and nutrition etc to keep people live longer. i wasn't surprise also. i am more concern on the number of birth we are having because these new birth will eventually create more new birth in the near future.… but anyway, i enjoyed having this conversation with you, this is what i call a real chat, not small chat like what you eat for dinner and how cold in Canada. when i talk , i just real talks, subjects and topics that concern the whole planet other lives. thank you for the great time Miroslava!! :)
Miroslava Jurcik replied:
Thank you for this chat, I am absolutely terrible at small talk, lol, that why I don't have a large friends group, I love talking big subjects which effect us all like animals and population, and its all connected anyway !!! I wish everyone wanted to talk about it ! :)
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
humm… when i say over population, i did not mean a particular country or area on the planet but the total of population in the entire planet. so i think the immigrant issue is not what i mean because it doesn't matter where they move, it won't change the totally number of population in the world. what scared me is the dramatic increase of population over the past 65 years period. throughout history, the world population is always well kept under 2 billions until the recent few hundred years. and then we went from 2.5 billions people in 1950 to almost 7.5 billion people as of 2016. 5 billions people increase in 65 years?!?! this increase is out of portion and insane!! of course we will need more farmland to feed the people, and land for buildings, of course there will be a lot more garbage and plastic issue to deal with, of course it will affect the balance of the plants and lives in this entire planet. … i honestly think something need to be done. at least i know for India, they have already started educating youth, the new generation to have only 1 child per family and that the youth is accepting this idea gladly with open arm, which is a good sign. i know it is by law in China that only 1 child is allowed per family, which indeed stabilized the chinese population. i think if we could educate the whole world about this issue, it will be great…. gosh i talked too much lol :P
Miroslava Jurcik replied:
No you don't, lol !! Thank you for putting the figures in , ofcourse I knew but seeing the exact figures is actually very scary. And you absolutely correct. But I feel the reason behind it is also important. In the past there were times of starvation, wars and illnesses which kept population down, like Spanish flu and black death wiped out millions of people around the world. And constant wars, I read that since human history there were only 3 days where the world wasn't in war, other records show that there was not even 3 days. The west came a long way with big advancements , some good and some bad (but want to stick to population subject). So immunisation safe other millions of lifes. Also China now relax on the one child rule bec of aging population, they grew 700 million in 50 years, and thanks to their rules stabilising, however India grew 800 million in 50 year and still not stabilising, I seen the education program , but when I seen the documentary it was only applied if few parts of the country, but India is progressing so hopefully that will change . However in comparison USA only grew little over 100 million in 50 years. They are countries like RUssia, Ukraine, Poland Czech, Japan were the population is decreasing. And countries like Pakistan, Mozambique , Yemen and heaps of others where the population going out of control. And some of this countries education is not working, as they think that condoms are evil provided by USA who trying to wipe them out, yet modern medicine and help from west by giving them food when they hungry keeping everyone alive. Also 100 year ago, when people had 16 kids only couple of them made it to old age, now its most. So we really have to rethink how we help and what we do otherwise we may just destroy our selves the way we all going. Animals and forest keep the land in balance otherwise the land will become eroded and die, unable to produce anything !!! And I think we need to talk and debate more about this stuff, too many people hiding their head in the sand and avoid difficult conversations !!! :) The only we really educate everyone is by open conversation !!!
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
Very exquisite and exceptional capture of this gorgeous elephant sculpture!! i am so happy to read about the success story you had in Australia!! you know, our human population is growing too fast in recent years, over population is a major problem for the planet too, we won't have enough farm land and land for buildings, and more animal will lost their natural home because of that. i hope people can do something to address this problem too!! L/F
Miroslava Jurcik replied:
Actually you only half right, native population in western countries have been declining as most westerners don't have many kids. The problems of overpopulation only stamp from middle east and Africa, India is actually one of the worst, they need to educate their people to stop having so many kids. The west is growing fast also , but thats only bec of immigration, which would usually be natural and slow but bec of all the events of last 10 -15 years its gone reckless and too fast which changing the face and structure of western native countries .
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Ooooh ... I love this. Gorgeous colors and light. Beautiful series, Miroslava. l/fv
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