DICIEMBRE 2010

After almost a decade photographing the natural wonders of Mexico at the end of this year declared as the Biodiversity year, Dimension Natural SC have launched the book "Mexico: Biodiversity and Endangered Species", with images of Santiago Gibert and other ILCP photographers, showing the most endangered mexican flora and fauna species.

November 2010

Grey whales (Eschrichtius robustus) visits Baja California, México during the winter season coming from Alaska, they congregate in the Bahia Asunción and Bahía Magdalena looking for food and warm waters. The image was taken in Bahía Magdalena during a survey flihgt.

(c) Santiago Gibert Isern

October 2010

The tufted jay (Cyanocorax inca) is an endangered and endemic bird of the Sierra Madre Occidental in México is distributed in the states of Durango and Sinaloa, lives in pine-oak forests and is an incredible defender of its territory. In the image this jay was trying to get out of a woodhouse under construction. (C) Santiago Gibert Isern.

September2010

Resplandent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) is considered one of the most beautiful bird in the world due its iridiscent green coloration and its spectacular caudal feathers that sometimes measures more than 60cm long, in Mexico is posible to find in the highest evergreen forest of Chiapas in the Biosfere Reserve of "El Triunfo", in the image a male is taking care of the neonates that are in the nest.

Wealth ecosystems provides us environmental services as carbon capture, water, flood prevention... but also spiritual benefits that are difficult to measure but easy to feel. In the image a father with his child enjoys the sunset in a little comunity of Calakmul Reserve, Campeche, Mexico.

July 2010

Akismon municipality is located in the Huasteca Potosina, San Luis Potosí, México, and is world recognized due a natural treasure named "El Sotano de las Golondrinas" a cave with a diameter of almost 60 meters and a fall of 400 meters. Inside the cave is another living world of insects, anfibians, bats, shallows and the mexican endemic green parakeet (Aratinga holochlora). In the photography due the long expososure resembles a paint where a couple of green parakeets enters into the cave.

June 2010

The Peregrine falcon is the fastes bird of the planet reaching 300km/h in flight, it mainly feeds on other birds like ducks and doves which hunt normally in flight. At present their populations are recovering positively since in the decade of the 80´s due to the use of DDT´s it was on the edge of extinction. The image shows a peregrine falcon in a branch after its migration from the north of the United States to south Mexico.

May 2010

This lizard (Basiliscus vittatus) distributes in the south of México and part of Central America. It lives in the zones of jungle near the water bodies wich use as escape routes from predators since its morphology allows him to run over the water without breaking the surface tension, this is because in each step is formed an air bubble between its foot and the water.

April 2010

Chiapas is located in shouth of México and is one of the richest states as far as ethnic groups talks about, one of the most know are the Lacandones, who live in the jungle and still maintains some of their older customs.
In the image we can observe the entrance of the Dizbaná cave guarded by a Lacandón.

March 2010

The penisnsula of Baja California is ubicated on the pacific slope of Mexico where biodiversity appears in a rich variety of ecosystems, also endemic species are quite common due radical changes in the secuence of habitats and its insular shape. The image was taken during an aerial survey in Bahía Asunción and we can apreciate an inmediate habitar change (mangroove to dune system) produced by a simple water stream.

February 2010

American flamingo (Phoenicpterus ruber).
This magnificent bird with a size of 1,20 to 1,40 meters congregates during winter in flocks of thousands in the area of Celestún, Yucatán México. Feeds in saline and alkaline lakes where they obtain algae and small crustaceans rich in carotenes that give them this incredible pink coloration. Females only lay one egg by season and the newborn is care by both parents, life period of a roseate flamingo is estimated in 40 years.

January 2010

The King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is one of the most unknown bird species in Mexico, actually inhabits tropical forest of the south but historically was distributed too along the Pacific coast. It feeds on carcasses and usually lives in colonies with other vulture species as the black vulture (Coragyps atratus), for survive needs long patches of intact habitat without human presence.