to the animals we lost in Australia

Quelle beauté !!!!

Thank you, Luc. I am shocked and heartbroken by this disaster.

Désolé je n'ai réagi que sur la qualité de la photo mais cette beauté naturelle représente à elle seule tout ce que l'on perd par notre faute … et on dit que l'homme est un être doué de raison … de déraison sans doute ….

Tragedy has its own sad beauty sometimes, Luc. I understood your comment was about the image. And you are right, in this we are showing just how difficult we find it to use our supposedly superior reasoning to save the planet that is our home!
Thank you for your very kind comments, Luc. I am sorry for my late reply and hope you are having a great week end!

It does look like animals and the fires in Australia are indeed a disaster. We were in Queensland and NSW a few years ago and cannot even begin to imagine that some of the beautiful areas we saw are now ravaged by fire.

Thank you for the comment, RHH. I can imagine that, having been there recently, you'd be all the more struck by what's happening. If, instead of animals, they were humans, we would just have lost one eighth of the global population, it's an apocalyptic number!

Of a very sad beauty.

Grazie, Giorgio. It is sad beyond words.

This does make a lovely abstract image and, interestingly, with similarities to the bark of some Australian eucalypts. Yes, the devastation from these fires is truly horrendous and, I fear, a harbinger of what is likely to become more frequent. Don't even start me on our government!

Thank you, George. You are completely right, but it is not just your government. We have all let our decision makers get away with putting profit above all other considerations, even the survival of the planet.

Nice and colourful tribute !!

Thank you, Jaap. Sorry I'm a bit late in replying.

Completely agree, Annalia

The image is perfect

Thank you, Judite. I don't always get around to replying to comments in a timely fashion. Sorry!

ma che bella ( e triste dedica)

brava!
che disastro!

Non credo nessuno possa più far finta che il riscaldamento del globo è solo una teoria e che le conseguenze paventate sono un'esagerazione ...

artistic find and shot, great "tribute", I'm impressed ...
And you are right, we all are in some way responsible

Thank you, Nora. I remember my father reading to me from a book called the Limits od Development when I was a teen ager. The predictions made by the MIT in that book are "tame" compared to what is actually happening. Decision makers have known what was a stake for decades and still continued to put profit before all else. We failed to stop them and will be handing over to our children a Planet heading for collapse.

Juste impressionnante par sa structure,sa texture et sa forme colorée.

Thank you, Malik. The bark of this tree is incredible and the shapes looked to me like animals running from fire, wide eyed and terrified.

We follow on euronews... in my country we are also every summer victim of fires, wild animals and also cattle are caught, it hurts... Australia is so much bigger than my small country, it is even more shocking...

Italy too gets forest fires every summer, some of them set on purpose by people who hope the land, once the trees have burned down, will be declared eligible for development. The laws are now stricter on that and it has helped some. Last year we had a huge fire in the Dolomites caused by unusual climate conditions with draught and high winds and many animals were lost. That was painful to see, and yet not even close to the scale of this disaster in Australia. You are right, Xata, it is even more shocking!

Thank you Annalia, for your thoughts. My husband, a volunteer firefighter, is at present fighting these fires on Kangaroo Island. What is happening here is unprecedented in scale and ferocity.
Fire fighters are traumatised by vast areas full of charred corpses of koalas, kangaroos, sheep, cows...and many other animals. Or even worse, trying to manage the badly injured animals which still are alive. And fight the mountainous flames.
Once again,,,your thoughts are so much appreciated. Diana

Thank you for your comment, Diana, and for sharing with us what the firefighters are seeing. I am sure you must worry about your brave husband who, along with the other firefighters, is doing his best to contain the fury of the flames and rescue the burned animals. I was a volunteer EMT for years and burns are among the most difficult injuries to treat, even with humans, who at least understand that you are trying to help. I can't imagine how hard it must be to help those poor terrified creatures! I was just looking at your beautiful photos of Kangaroo Island and it breaks my heart to think that it is now being devastated by fire and strewn with burned corpses.
I feel it would be an even greater tragedy if people the world over failed to understand the terrible import of this disaster, which is an unprecedented loss not only for Australia but for the world at large and that should make it crystal clear to even the most callous deniers what lies in store for the foreseeable future if we do not change course immediately.

For everyone who might still be in doubt - NOA and NASA findings on global warming trends are simply terrifying. Just take a look at their graphs here:
www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/briefings/20200115.pdf

bell'omaggio a tutti gli animali - e alle persone - morti negli incendi! ma non e' il clima la sola causa di queste devastazini: in parte il fuoco e' stato purtroppo appiccato intenzionalmente in diverse zone da persone " irresponsabili" (chiamiamole cosi') che sono state arrestate, come ho letto... poi il vento e le temperature fino a 50 gradi hanno contribuito a propagare il fuoco in maniera esponenziale....E' una tragedia immane...

Ciao, Gabi. Hai fatto bene a ricordare anche le 27 vittime umane (di cui tre pompieri morti nel tentativo di domare gli incendi). Non intendevo sminuire il terribile tributo in vite umane, né dimenticare le oltre 2000 famiglie che hanno perso la loro casa in questo disastro. Il numero stimato di animali che hanno perso la vita è però talmente apocalittico che mi ha colpito profondamente. Purtroppo c'è stata anche una vera e propria campagna di disinformazione che ha tentato di spostare la responsabilità su presunti piromani. Questo articolo di cui metto il link qui di seguito riferisce una ricerca fatta sulle fonti dell'informazione (falsa) che 180 piromani sarebbero stati arrestati: phys.org/news/2020-01-australia-bushfires-unprecedented-climate-disinformation.html I media hanno poi ripreso queste false notizie acriticamente riportandole anche all'estero.
George, che è presente su Ipernity con il nome di "tiabunna" ha scritto un bell'articolo che trovi qui: www.ipernity.com/blog/tiabunna/4729334

grazie delle precisazioni e dei link! ormai le fake news impazzano sul web e, purtroppo, ogni tanto ci casco...:-((