N. Bald Ibis conservation saga in Arabia and eastern Africa 2002-10

FAUNA SURVEYING OF CENTRAL SYRIAN DESERT (2000-03)


LOCAL COMMUNITY & CAPACITY BUILDING (2000-04)


THE DISCOVERY IN 2002


    IBIS PROFILE


     ECOLOGICAL CRISIS IN THE SYRIAN STEPPE


     RAISING ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS


    IBIS PROTECTION PROGRAM (2002-10)


SAT-TRACKING AND DISCOVERY OF MIGRATORY

ROUTE IN 2006


SURVEYING ETHIOPIA WINTERING  GROUNDS (2006-09)


TIME RUNNING OUT...    (2008-10)


END OF STORY ?

(2009-10)


SUPPLEMENTATION TEST IN 2010


HIGHS & LOWS OF IBIS SAGA 2002-10


ANOTHER VANISHING SPECIES (2012)




SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS


MEDIA COVERAGE 2002-10







     THE  PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE: CRESTED IBIS NIPPONIA NIPPON IN CHINA


 

Each species is a small universe in its own, different from all the others due to its genes, anatomy, behaviour, vital cycle, role in the ecosystem; a self-sustaining system, created in the course of an evolutionary history, complex beyond our imagination. Each species deserves that reasearchers devote their careers on it, and poets and historians celebrate it. Nothing even closely similar can be said about a proton or an hydrogen atom. In few words, Reverend, this is the strongest and most trascendent moral argument, provided by science in view of supporting the urgent need to save the Creation.

E.O. WILSON (The Creation, 2006).






@ g. serra

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. 2007. “Extinct Ibis found in Middle East”  (5-min video)

BBC World. 2002. “Endangered bird delights conservationists’

Corriere della Sera. 2005. “Ibis, un volo verso il mistero”

La Repubblica – Firenze.  2006 “Una vita per l’ibis eremita”

Miracles do happen - SYRIA / Cultures of the World (2006)

   PHOTOS IBIS IN SYRIA 2002-09

RECENT PUBLICATION releases:



Assessment and characterization of the Ibis Protected Area in the Palmyra Desert - a proposed 5-year management and development framework.













Assessment and characterization of Al Talila Reserve and surrounding Palmyrean desert.

BBC World’s Earth Report Series. 2004. “The son of the Schyte” (25-min video)

RAI 3 TGR Mediterraneo. 2004. “Un italiano a Palmyra” (5-min video)

Ciascuna specie e’ un piccolo universo a se’, diversa da tutte le altre per il suo codice genetico, l’anatomia, il comportamento, il ciclo vitale, il ruolo nell’ambiente, un sistema che si auto perpetua, creato nel corso di una storia evolutiva di una complessita’ quasi inimmaginabile.  Ciascuna specie merita che dei ricercatori vi dedichino la loro carriera e storici e poeti la celebrino. Nulla di tutto cio’ puo’ essere detto per un protone o un atomo di idrogeno. In poche parole Reverendo, e’ questo l’argomento morale piu’ forte e impellente che viene dalla scienza per salvare la Creazione. E.O. WILSON (La Creazione)

 
 
 

PHOTOS IBIS IN ETHIOPIA 2006-09