World Image issue 11 October 2014

When I started writing this article for the
magazine I never thought that in a year that
commemorates 100 years since the outbreak of
World War 1 we are in a world that could easily
be thrown in to that same scenario again.
A Personal Ramble
Phillip Tureck
In the last few months since I wrote my last
article I have travelled from Lima to Miami
through parts of South America and then in a
short separate trip to Moscow – hence my
opening line for the article. The world is a
precarious place, but for anyone with any kind
of photographic device the world is out there to
take images.
Whether you are visiting places such as Macho
Pichu or the Panama Canal, Red Square,
conservation wildlife trusts, or even in your
back garden and local area. The world is
waiting to be captured in your images.
I have made no secret that I quite like wolves,
not quite sure how and when this started but I
do have a passion for them, having seen them in
conservation or in the wild in Yellowstone or
fleetingly a back of a wolf in The Great Bear
Rain Forest. Reading a book about the last wild
wolves took me all the way to the forest last
year.
In between work and travel I have tried to
improve my alleged photographic skills, and I
have attached some images to the article but
find myself being drawn more and more to
conservation issues and in particular spending
more time at the Cat Survival Trust. It is
because of the trust that I came into contact
with Gordon and found we share a mutual
interest and passion for not just the wildlife but
to give the magazine a wider audience.
Social media is changing the way we view life
but for myself this is a place where forums such
as Wildlife Conservation and the pressures
around the world come to the fore from a
variety of people from around the globe.
But nevertheless the wolf is one of the most
persecuted animals in North America, hunted
for the sake of hunting, numbers being limited
to the point of obscurity in some states,
humankind has currently an endless thirst for
the persecution of this animal.
Wildlife in general is under pressure from
population explosion, habitat encroachment,
hunting, poaching, people thinking that for
some animals their parts have medicinal
purpose or just a complete lack of interest in the
world around us to preserve and embrace it.
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