If you want to see the best big cat pictures,
Who do you think of first?
If it's "best",
Then you must not be able to avoid the following one -
National Geographic Big Cat Field Ace Photographer:
Steve Winter
Photo by Steve Winter
Steve's "big cat" photographs have long since been taken — if you want to sum up some of the most classic big cat photography in the past 20 years, you'll be surprised to find that most of them are from this photographer.
The cub, who lives in Asia, is an orphan whose mother was recently killed.
摄影：STEVE WINTER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
In Bandhavgarh National Park in India, a tiger cub snuggles up with its mother. Photographer Steve Winter said: "It took so long to see such a vivid scene. "He spent several months in the wild before he saw the cubs.
There are now only 3,500 wild tigers left. We should go out of our way for tigers' right to live and say "no" to traditional medicine markets, tiger bone wine and other trades.
Photo by STEVE WINTER
In Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, the remote camera captured the cougar wearing a radio collar. Numbered P22, it is Hollywood's most mysterious star.
Snow leopards are mainly distributed in the alpine regions of Central Asia, and their movements are strange and ghostly. The area is linked to the domestic water of millions of people around it, but the rapidly disappearing glaciers herald a bleak future for people and animals. The photo received 1.362 million likes on the author's INSTAGRAM.
As the National Geographic photographer, who is best known for photographing big cats and especially snow leopards, put it:
"Photography can change the world, and we need images to inspire people to pay attention to our homes and take action to save our planet."
——Steve Winter
After seeing so many cute big cats,
Learn about Steve Winter's god-like work,
So do you know what a "cat alliance" is?
Cat Alliance CFCA, short for Chongqing Jiangbei Enclave Cat Alliance Ecological Science Popularization And Conservation Center, is a non-governmental non-profit organization with the goal of scientifically protecting China's native wild cats.
Just today,
National Geographic, in conjunction with the Cat Alliance, and other conservation agencies,
It's time to do something very meaningful together!
And --
You can also join us,
Jointly participated in the preparation of one
"Red List of Wild Game in China"!
(※The species in the following list are endangered species that are indiscriminately preyed and eaten by humans, and their living conditions should attract everyone's attention)
Chinese Game RED LIST (Indiscriminate Edition) V1.0
Considering that many of the species that are often eaten have been bred on a large scale, there are still wild individuals who are overfished. To distinguish it from farmed artificial populations, the word "wild" has been added before some species.
Beasts: (15 species)
Wild wild boar, wild roe deer, red chamois, baby chamois, badger (badger, badger, weasel), civet cat, leopard cat, hare (Mongolian rabbit, South China rabbit), porcupine (Malay porcupine, wild Chinese porcupine, broom-tailed porcupine), white-bellied giant rat
In Yasurai, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, swans fly away from their rice paddies for the night in the morning.
Photo by Masahiro Hiroike, you're in charge of YOURSHOT
Birds: (41 species)
Wild birds: wild geese (bean geese, hong geese, grey geese), swans (little swans, giant swans), wild ducks (green-headed ducks, green-winged ducks, spot-billed ducks, cocked-nosed ducks, red hemp ducks, ribbed ducks, crested diving ducks)
Great egrets inhabit the branches of Gabon's Luango National Park.
摄影：MICHAEL NICHOLS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Wading birds: egrets, night herons, white bone-tops, black water pheasants, white-breasted bitter birds
Landfowl: Wyvern (flower-tailed hazel chicken), wild chicken (ring-necked pheasant, stone chicken, white egret, gray-breasted bamboo chicken, Chinese partridge, red-bellied golden pheasant, white-bellied golden pheasant), hairy-legged sand chicken, wild pigeon/spotted dove (pearl-necked dove, mountain dove, fire dove, gray-spotted dove);
Photographed by JOEL SARTORE, Image Ark
Birds of prey: Eagle (crested hummer, grey-faced eagle), owl (grass owl, spotted grebe)
Songbirds: Grass finches (mainly yellow-breasted buntings, chestnut buntings, field buntings, yellow-browed buntings, yellow-throated buntings and other birds of the bunting family), sparrows, common suzaku
Two climbs: (15 types)
Snakes: Wild Mouse Snake, Wild Grey Rat Snake, King Snake, Black Snake, Wild Zhoushan Cobra, Black Brow Morning Snake, King Cobra
Rhynchophis boulengeri is a reptile of the genus Spiky-beaked snake in the family Cyprinidae , with a green body. It is found in Vietnam and Guangxi and Hainan in China.
Photograph by JOEL SARTORE
Amphibians: Spiny-breasted frog, wild black-spotted side-folded frog, wild giant salamander (baby fish)
Turtle turtle: wild Chinese turtle, flat-breasted turtle, sand turtle, wild three-lined closed-shell turtle (money turtle), wild mountain turtle
Aquatic: (13 species)
Wild eel (Japanese eel, flower eel), wild Matsue perch, wild knifefish, wild anchovy, wild bighead carp, wild cochineal, wild sturgeon (Chinese sturgeon, Dashi sturgeon), Jiang Tuan (wild long-snout), wild long-rumped fish, wild porpoise, river pig seed (narrow-ridged porpoise)
Photo by DAVID DOUBILET, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
Marine: (16 species)
Sea turtles (all species of sea turtles, including but not limited to green sea turtles, hawksbill turtles, and red turtles)
Sharks (mainly used to make shark fin soup, species such as sickle shark, longfin shark, luxe hammerhead shark, hammerhead hammerhead shark, grooveless hammerhead shark, long tail shark, rat shark, whale shark, basking shark)
Su mei (corrugated lip fish), seahorse, Chinese horseshoe, Garnifora Bay totoaba, yellow lip fish (mainly used to make flower glue, fish maw)
The selection of species on the list and the collation of the contents of the data are respectively undertaken by the following institutions:
Mammals: Dr. Wang Fang, a researcher at Cat Meng and Fudan University;
Birds: Suzaku Club, Chongqing Bird Watching Club;
Amphibians and reptiles: Dr. Qi Shuo, Xizijiang Ecological Conservation Center and two-reptile expert;
Aquatic fish (freshwater): smart fishing;
Marine life: submerged love Dapeng and beautiful nature;
Axe Zheng: Zhang Jinshuo, senior engineer of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
After picking the last one, exactly 100 species!
Although the number is not much,
But they mean that it is based on the bad habit of eating wild game,
Destruction of ecosystems throughout the country!
How did you participate in the compilation of the "Red List of Wild Game in China"?
We use experience and knowledge to select species,
Collate their popular science data;
And you
Tell us the story of the wild game you experienced,
Or the animal photos you took —
We will organize and edit this material,
Eventually become the basic content of the Red List!
(Dedicated Submission Email [email protected])
If your story and photos are adopted by us,
You will be part of the National Geographic Nature Observer,
Join us in protecting wildlife,
An action to save the planet!