4500 x 3000 px | 38,1 x 25,4 cm | 15 x 10 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
25 janvier 2012
Lieu:
Ranowulu, Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Informations supplémentaires:
Feathers of the tail of a knobbed hornbill (Rhyticeros cassidix) that is flying above above vegetated area near Mount Tangkoko and Duasudara in Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Hornbills, in general, are considered as important seed dispersers, and dubbed as "the forest farmers", thus they have a very important role in forest regeneration. "When hornbills are lost, the nature of the forest will change over the next few decades and centuries, because those plants that hornbills are feeding on and dispersing will become filtered out, " said Rohit Naniwadekar, a hornbill specialist at the Nature Conservation Foundation in India, as quoted by Carolyn Cowan in her May 15, 2024 article published on Mongabay. "There would also be knock-on effects on forest carbon storage, " Carolyn added. Founder of the Indonesian Hornbill Conservation Society, Yoki Hadiprakarsa, also said that hornbill is "a true 'carbon superhero' that works silently helping tropical forests to maintain their health integrity (and) to store more carbon."_However, the temperature is increasing in Tangkoko forest, a connected area. Due to its dependency on forest and certain types of trees, hornbills in general are also threatened by climate change. "With trees diminishing, there are no safe places for hornbill pairs to build their nests in large mature trees, " wrote Amanda Hackett of Wildlife Conservation Society in a 2022 publication. _Many tropical forest areas in the world suffer from the same phenomenon: new temperature averages have applied, according to a June 03, 2024 publication on Phys.Org. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added that it has led to ecological, behavioral, and physiological changes in wildlife species and biodiversity. "In addition to increased rates of disease and degraded habitats, climate change is also causing changes in species themselves, which threaten their survival, " they wrote in a publication on IUCN.org.
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