A photographer, *HeWhoWalksWithTigers has taken a step to help save wild animals all over the world. I have copy and pasted the following from HeWhoWalksWithTigers journal:
"I've been talking about FREELAND quite a bit over the past year. After all, I've been happily helping them partly because of your help! However, FREELAND is currently in a predicament and could use the help of fellow wildlife photographers out there!
The Problem
The illegal wildlife trade is estimated to have a value of billions of dollars every year, making it the third most lucrative international industry behind guns and drugs. However, despite this trade wiping out wildlife all over the world, efforts of law enforcement have yet to match those of the criminals that traffic wildlife. Simply put, the illegal wildlife trade is not taken seriously. As a result, law enforcement and customs personnel often do not have the training to identify wildlife and wildlife products that they come across. This lack of knowledge prevents cases from being developed against wildlife criminals.
FREELAND is developing a mobile app for enforcement and customs personnel in Southeast Asia to help them easily identify wildlife that is being trafficked, especially those being trafficked illegally. However, given the number of species trafficked, FREELAND simply does not have the resources to pay for the rights to use professional photos of wildlife in their app.
The Solution
Here is where you come in! If you are interested in helping FREELAND tackle the illegal wildlife trade and are a wildlife photographer, you can help by donating your photos for use in this app. All photographers will be credited and FREELAND will inform you when the app is released.
How to Help
For those interested, please take a look at the list of species below. If you have high-quality images of any of these species and wish to donate your photos to the cause, you cab send them to PhotosForFREELAND@gmail.com. If you do, please list the species and your name somewhere in the photo file name; that will make things easy for organizing and crediting later on (hopefully, if we do get a lot of photos)!
Image resolution is preferred to be larger than 2048 x 1566 pixels, but smaller images are also acceptable.
Please share with friends here on DeviantArt through your journal and in the groups you belong to! It will help get the word out there!
Species List
Mammals
Gaur and Banteng
Serow
Tibetan Antelope/Shatoosh
Saiga Antelope
Multi-tined Antlers
Musk Deer
All wild cat species, specifically endangered South-east Asian cats
Southeast Asian Otters (Eurasian otter, hairy-nosed otter, smooth-coated otter, oriental small clawed otter etc.)
Sun Bear
Asiatic Black Bear
Banded Palm Civet and Banded Linsang
Binturong
Rhinoceros
Pangolins
Primates
Loris
Long-tailed Macaque
Elephants
Birds
Lesser Whistling and Wandering Whistling Ducks
Adjutant Stork
Hornbills
White-rumped Sharna
Birds of Prey
Straw-headed Bulbul
Hill Mynah
Parrots
White Cockatoo
Palm Cockatoo
Indonesian Lorikeet
Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
Chattering Lory
Black-capped Lory
Owls
Reptiles
Crocodile Hides
Alligator and Caiman species
Philippine and New Guinea Crocodiles
Siamese and Estuarine Crocodiles
Flase Gharial
Spiny-tailed Lizards
Day Gecko species
Tokay Gecko
Monitor Lizard Species
Oriental Rat Snake
Cobra Species
Python Species
Pig-nosed Turtle
Marine Turtle
Hawksbill Turtle
Batagur species
Asian Box Turtles
Malaysian Giant Turtle
Red-eared Slider
Tortoise species
Radiated Tortoise
Ploughshare Tortoise
Indian Star Tortoise
Burmese Star Tortoise
Leopard Tortoise
Pancake Tortoise
Asian Brown Tortoise
Impressed Tortoise
Asiatic Softshell Turtle
Chinese Softshell Turtle
Amphibians
Tomato Frog
Fish
Asian Arowana
Humphead Wrasse
Seahorses
Invertebrates
Giant Clam species
Plants
Pitcher Plants
Orchids (particularly CITES appendix I species)
Ramin Species
About FREELAND
FREELAND is a Thailand-based non-profit which aims to end human and wildlife trafficking. To find out more, please visit [link]"
Even if you don't have photos of any of these animals, that does not mean you can't help. You can copy and paste (please leave a link of some kind of to *HeWhoWalksWithTigers profile of journal) this blog to your journal. Small steps can make a BIG difference and if we all take these small steps, we can change the world.
