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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 3h

A still from Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees
Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images/Guardian

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 7h

Aryn Lockhart couldn’t remember the plane crash she’d survived as a baby, but it often occupied her thoughts: when she looked at her tattoo, a decorative cross overlaying a heart—the symbol of the order of nuns who’d cared for her
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This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. The Rare Vietnam War Records May Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift

The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the compli...

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 11h

Jane Goodall appears in the CBS television special Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees in 1965
Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images / Guardian

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 1d

A Sneaky Pigeon Spying
As an amateur wildlife photographer, I spent a night in a treehouse. I started to shoot that one curious pigeon that kept getting more and more interested in my presence.

#france #nature #portrait #wildlife #woods
Picture Arnaud Contard

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 1d

Pine martens once lived throughout the woodlands of southwest England. But more than a century ago, the small, weasel-like creatures disappeared from the region, largely due to habitat loss and hunting. Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 2d

Lion at Sunset
A lion rests in the tall grass of Kruger National Park at sunset.

#lion #south #africa
Photo : Josh Gay
Smithsonian Magazine

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 3d

Winner, deep sky category: Supernovas, satellites and solar sprites: 2025 - David Malin astrophotography awards

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Photograph: Anne-Maree McComb

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 3d

A touching moment between Jane Goodall and a young chimpanzee at Gombe Stream reserve, Tanzania, 1964
Photograph: Hugo van Lawick/National Geographic

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 3d

Atacama desert, Chile

The desert near Copiapó has begun to bloom in shades of purple and white for miles after unusual rainfall was recorded in that area of northern Chile
Photograph: Lucas Aguayo/Anadolu/Getty Images/Guardian

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 3d

A black bear on the edge of the northern boreal forest.

#canada #wildlife #bear
Photo : Allison Padget

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 4d

Visualization of the castle that stood at Finlaggan during the 12th and 13th centuries
Archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown castle that may have been the seat of power for kings who once ruled parts of western

David Simon : Society of Antiquities of Scotland / Smithsonian Magazine

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 4d

Rest in Peace
Painting by Jennifer Orkin Lewis

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 4d

A black-winged stilt wades during its migratory stopover in Bursa, Turkey
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images / Guardian

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 4d

Main image: Jane Goodall plays with Bahati, a three-year-old female chimpanzee, at the Sweetwaters chimpanzee sanctuary near Nanyuki, Kenya, 1997. Photograph: Jean-Marc Bouju/AP
Guardian

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 4d

What a journey. Make a difference m.imdb.com/title/tt3751...

Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 7.0 | Reality-TV

Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters: With Lucy Punch, Helen George, Lenny Henry, Rachel Riley. Sir Lenny Henry is joined by a group of celebritys as they embark on a dangerous journey to the Bahamas to s...

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 5d

A call to action, anew photo series capturing rewilding successes in Europe. Like Romania’s Văcărești Nature Park (pictured), once an abandoned construction site on the edge of Bucharest, now an urban wetland teeming with wildlife
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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 5d

Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans’ Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests
Researchers recovered more than 200 human artifacts from historical nests in southern Spain Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 5d

Artist Ira Volkova paints large-scale flower portraits, and is able to perfectly capture the intricate likeness of every bloom she paints, on large scale canvases, often much larger than the artist herself. My Modern Met

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 6d

It takes time and ongoing specialist care to sustain a forest.

BrewDog sells Lost Forest and Highland estate after 250,000 trees die / The National

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 6d

What Joffre Lakes Park looks like at rest | The Narwhal

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What Joffre Lakes Park looks like at rest | The Narwhal

A month-long closure ends Oct. 3. Here’s what Instagram-famous Joffre Lakes Park, or Pipi7íyekw, looks like when it’s quiet and closed to the public

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 6d

A blackburnian warbler perches on a branch, holding a moth in its beak, in Valle del Cuaca, Colombia. Camilo Sanabria Grajales / Audubon Photography Awards. 2025 Youth Winner, Colombia and Chile

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall visits a chimp rescue centre in Entebbe, Uganda, 2018. During her visit, Goodall also held a naming ceremony for a baby chimp called Zakayo the Second
Photograph: Sumy Sadurni/AFP/Getty Images/CourtesyGuardian

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 6d

Two male chimpanzees eat the fruit of the Guinea plum tree at Taï National Park in the Ivory Coast. A study has found chimpanzees’ enthusiasm for guzzling ripe fruit puts their ethanol intake at about 14g daily – the equivalent of a half pint of beer
Photograph: Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley/Reuters

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 6d

Round robin … a small insectivorous passerine sings in Dunsden, UK. Robins sing primarily to defend their territory, to warn other male robins to stay away, and to attract a mate, signalling to females that the territory is taken and suitable for breeding
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock

Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 6d

A bear loses its grip on a fish that survived a brush with death and avoided becoming a meal. Thomas Vijayan, Alaska, 2019 Smithsonian Magazine