This is a calendar from the Alianza Gato Andino. This is a crucially important organisation concerned with the conservation of the Andean Mountain Cat. I really like this calendar because the pictures show us very clearly the habitat and landscape of the majestic but barren area where this little cat lives.
This is an embedded version. The best way to see the individual pictures which are larger than the width of the page is to center them using the bar at the base and then scroll down and use the left hand margin thumbnails to select.
This link takes you to a wider version. The language is Spanish I believe. Next year there will be an English version but maybe we should stick to Spanish.
I’d love to visit this place. So wide open and free of people…. LOL. My spirit soars when I see the space and the raw feeling of nature. Great pictures. I hope you enjoy them.
Well said Marc. We have a long history of destroying a species completely and then spending the next 100 years figuring out how to bring it back from extinction 😉 Completely mad. We look at cloning and DNA samples from fossils and that sort of stuff. It would have been far simpler to behave with a little more common sense and respect for nature in the first place.
The rarer a species becomes the more likely we are to want to kill it and possess it or bits of it. There is something inherently defective in the human psyche that irritates me.
It shows up the cruel, superstitious and ignorant side the dreaded human. Sorry if that sounds harsh on the human but I think it is a fair comment. There are very few of these cats left in the wild (some say 2,000) and yet local people were still killing them. Work has taken place to educated the local people to try and change their culture.
https://pictures-of-cats.org/Andean-Mountain-Cat-Facts-For-Kids.html