"Bird's Appearance of Earth", telling the story of the earth in 20 years

/>

On June 22, Yingde, Guangdong, was searched on top of the top, and many people discovered that Yingde City, Guangdong Province was undergoing a big flood disaster. As of now, nearly 500,000 people have been affected in Guangdong.

The flood in South Asia has continued to deteriorate, and more than 9.5 million people were trapped in the disaster area, waiting for water rescue.

"By 2100, the global average temperature may increase by 4.8 ° C."

"A total of 1 million kinds of animals and plants may disappear by 2050."

"8 million tons of plastic garbage every year are poured into the ocean."

"In 2015, one of the 113 people around the world was reduced to refugees."

Native

This set of numbers constantly reminds us that humans on the earth are inseparable from nature. The fate of each creature is closely related to the fate of other creatures.

What if humans do not change their behavior?

Before the infringement of the earth exceeded its self -healing ability, before the only home was destroyed by himself, come to listen to the suggestions of scientists, and it was not too late.

Follow the voices and find the return place

Jann Arthus-Bertrand is a French airline photographer and a natural loyal guardian.

Beginning in 1992, he took his camera to start a trip to Odyssey on the earth.

He once went deep into the lion group with his family, flying millions of kilometers in helicopters in more than ten years, and took more than 300,000 aerial photos in more than 100 countries. Show to every audience who is natural.

In the young age, he became very interested in nature and wild animals. He tried the performing arts industry after adulthood, but soon found that he was not here. So at the age of 21, he turned into a wild animal park at the age of 21, and followed the follow -up of nature.

In 1976, 30 -year -old Yang and his wife Anne decided to live in Marseille Marseille, Kenya, to study the behavior model of lion groups in the Marseille's tribe. In the next three years, they lingered in the wild environment, tracking the figures of the lion group and left precious images and text records for them. As a result, Yang has cultivated Yang's strong interest in photography, and began to try to shoot the landscape on the hot steam ball.

Kenya's adult lion and young lion

After returning to France, Yang published the photography book "Lions" in 1983, and became a reporter from international news, sports news, and wild animals from French magazines such as "Paris Match" and "GEO".

In 1991, he established an ALTITUDE AGENCY, the world's first video library specifically for aviation photography, and stored more than 500,000 images from more than 100 photographers from more than 100 countries.

The earth cherishes the home

When the "United Nations Environment and Development Conference" was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Yang Altis Betron decided to start a large-scale photography project to show the status quo of the earth and its residents-the project named "Bird's Emergency Earth" Essence

He thought he would complete the project in only 5 years. But in fact, this is a lifelong career, which is far from end.

After being sponsored by UNESCO in 1995, he has traveled all over the world. With the deepening of the understanding of nature, he decided to further promote environmental protection. In 1999, his first image collection, "Bird's A glance on the Earth", was published, which immediately caused a huge response internationally.

Beautiful Planet Foundation website

In 2005, Yang founded a good Planet Foundation (Goodplanet), committed to funding environmental protection publicity education and resisting climate change activities. In view of Yang's investment in environmental protection, in 2009, he was appointed as the UN Environmental Planning Ambassador.

On June 5th World Environment Day, the long film directed by Yang and showing the status of the earth, is also the homologous film of "Bird's A glance of the Earth" - "Homeland" premiered in more than 100 countries around the world, and even more High score of 9.2 by Douban 47,000 netizens.

Aevant -view Earth touch people's hearts

Since its first edition in 1999, "Bird's A glance of the Earth" has been reprinted many times, translated into more than 20 languages, and has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. In April this year, the latest Chinese translation version was launched. Among them, the new version of the new picture and the new text "Bird's Appearance of Earth" will continue to tell eternal stories with a updated ideological dimension. Almost every picture in the book has human figures. Even if there are no specific people on the picture, there will be a mark of human activities. This is a photographic atlas that is closely related to humans to guide people to think about what kind of earth we should leave in the future.

Each big picture is attached to the form of a picture description in the chapter in the chapter, telling the story behind the picture about history, geography, ecology, and humanity.

The bones of the White Whale; taken in the Norwegian Wolba Islands, Vanke Iren's Fjord

White whale was industrialized in Norway in the 1930s. A pile of white bones can be seen on the site of the whaling station, from at least 500 whales.

Connected tonsils; planting farms near Los Angeles, California, USA

Since 2011, Agriculture in California has rely on irrigation to a large extent. Local farmers have always enjoyed a rich and cheap water resources. After 2011, it was found that the amount of water extracted was greatly reduced or even exhausted. Farmers were forced to plant fruit trees, and family water had to be reduced.

Mount Everest in the Himalayas; taken in Nepal

The Himalayas, which are regarded as uninterrupted and eternal, are actually experiencing ecological changes. The increase in regional temperatures leads to melting glaciers, and the rise in the water level of high mountains and lakes may be flooded, endangering the life of millions of people in the valley. On the other hand, the Himalayan glacier supply freshwater for the world's population, but its 3/4 is continuing to shrink.

Divide car farm; taken in San Brother in the sea of ​​Amore, France

After compression, the vehicle was embedded in this "cemetery". In France, 1.5 million cars are scrapped every year. The EU's "Technical instructions on Scrap Auto" requires that the recycling rate of new cars invested in the market in the market since 2015 must reach 95 % of the weight of the vehicle. step.

Pink flower Feng Suzuki;

This pink flower and wind Suzuki growing in the Guiyana Forest will bloom after all the leaves are withered. Behind the beautiful perspective, South America still continues to cut forests, and the annual cutting area is equivalent to a Slovenia.

Large map and thumbnail and detailed introduction

In addition, the text also includes articles from 13 internationally renowned scientists and environmentalists such as Nicholas Stan, Zhen Guta, Silvia El. Use the rich text to tell readers about the situation that the climate, agriculture, water, energy and other things are closely related to humans, and explain how many urgent environmental issues that humans need to face in the future.

Located in Cottonkohop Province, a cotton bag, 1/4 pesticides around the world are used for cotton planting

In 20 years, 200 pictures, 200,000 words tell the story of the earth. As biologist Zhen Guder said: "We must use the exquisite and shocking photos to tell a fascinating story, and find the way to touch them."

Text: Wu Ye Zi Editor: Xiaomeng

- END -