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PLEASE READ - Photos & Videos Uploaded to This Site
If your photos or videos do not fall within these guidelines, please remove them.
Please note: These guidelines are for photos/videos uploaded directly into the Photo and/or Video sections of WildEarth Ning.
If you have questions in reference to photos and what area that WildEarth broadcasts in, please contact Aquila@wildearth.tv, Karen-inVA@wildearth.tv or Valorie@wildearth.tv.
Guidelines
Photos: Please only upload photos you have taken of WildEarth.TV content. Or photographs YOU have taken of wildlife in any of the areas that WE broadcast from. Annotate what area each photo was taken in if not Wildearth content or they may be deleted. Any photos uploaded after the publishing of these guidelines, November 22, 2008, that are not WildEarth content or wildlife photos taken by you in the areas that WE broadcast from, will be deleted immediately without notification.
Videos: ONLY videos containing WildEarth.TV content are allowed to be uploaded. They must be your own creations. Any videos other than WildEarth.TV content and not of your own creation will be deleted without notification. The principle here is to 'mash-up' the WEvideo that are also available at http://www.wildearth.tv/wearchive for your use.
These guidelines are in place to prevent copyright infringement of others, and to make for easier browsing of the WildEarth.TV sightings as well as to ensure the storage/bandwidth limits of this social network are not exceeded.
***Very Important Note*** Due to photos and videos on the Ning Site going out through RSS feeds and other applications advertising WildEarth, only WildEarth content should be uploaded to Ning. Pets, family, vacation, personal photos/videos, etc. should not be uploaded for this reason.
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Notice: "Add an Album" Options
To avoid any confusion, there are two features/options for members adding a Photo Album. One option for your photos. The other option for linking out to other members' photos. Similar to a Favorites.
1. A member creates an album consisting only of their WildEarth Content photos.
Choose from:
* My Photos
Example:
2. A member creates an album consisting of any WildEarth Content photos shared on the WildEarth Ning Network. This option allows a member to create a Favorites type album with each thumbnail within the album leading back to the original page for the uploaded photo. All credits for the photos go directly to the original poster of the photos.
Choose from:
* Everyone's Photos
Example:
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***Below are instructions on how to insert or embed your photos, slideshows, videos that are not WildEarth content onto your "My Page":
How to use the Text Box areas on your "My Page" per the main Ning site:
What is a text box? What can I put in my text box?
A text box is a box to which you can add a variety of content. It's just another way to make a page your own! Simply click the "Edit" button in the top right corner of the text box to get started.
Network members can add the following to text boxes on their profile page:
Text
HTML
Pictures
Widgets
How do I add "embed" code to a text box?
Most widget providers and video sites will give you "embed" code for their widgets and videos. Here's how you add it to a text box.
1. Sign into the network.
2. Locate the text box you would like to add the code to. Click "Edit" in the upper right corner.
3. Copy and past the "embed" code into the text box and click "Save."
You can also embed any network slideshow, video or music player widget into a text box.
How do I put photos into the text box?
1. Sign into the network.
2. Locate the text box you would like to add the photo to. Click "Edit" in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "Add an Image" icon.
4. Insert an image that's already online by pasting the URL under "insert an existing image."
5. Click "Add."
How do I add a clickable link to my blog post? This should also work for the My Page Text Box.
To make text in your blog post into a clickable link, highlight the text you want to be linked and click the "Insert a Link" icon in the toolbar. This button looks like a chain link. In the box that pops up, type the URL you want the text to link to. Once you save your text box or blog post, anyone can use the link.
Please note: These guidelines are for photos/videos uploaded directly into the Photo and/or Video sections of WildEarth Ning.
If you have questions in reference to photos and what area that WildEarth broadcasts in, please contact Aquila@wildearth.tv, Karen-inVA@wildearth.tv or Valorie@wildearth.tv.
Guidelines
Photos: Please only upload photos you have taken of WildEarth.TV content. Or photographs YOU have taken of wildlife in any of the areas that WE broadcast from. Annotate what area each photo was taken in if not Wildearth content or they may be deleted. Any photos uploaded after the publishing of these guidelines, November 22, 2008, that are not WildEarth content or wildlife photos taken by you in the areas that WE broadcast from, will be deleted immediately without notification.
Videos: ONLY videos containing WildEarth.TV content are allowed to be uploaded. They must be your own creations. Any videos other than WildEarth.TV content and not of your own creation will be deleted without notification. The principle here is to 'mash-up' the WEvideo that are also available at http://www.wildearth.tv/wearchive for your use.
These guidelines are in place to prevent copyright infringement of others, and to make for easier browsing of the WildEarth.TV sightings as well as to ensure the storage/bandwidth limits of this social network are not exceeded.
***Very Important Note*** Due to photos and videos on the Ning Site going out through RSS feeds and other applications advertising WildEarth, only WildEarth content should be uploaded to Ning. Pets, family, vacation, personal photos/videos, etc. should not be uploaded for this reason.
Notice: "Add an Album" Options
To avoid any confusion, there are two features/options for members adding a Photo Album. One option for your photos. The other option for linking out to other members' photos. Similar to a Favorites.
1. A member creates an album consisting only of their WildEarth Content photos.
Choose from:
* My Photos
Example:
2. A member creates an album consisting of any WildEarth Content photos shared on the WildEarth Ning Network. This option allows a member to create a Favorites type album with each thumbnail within the album leading back to the original page for the uploaded photo. All credits for the photos go directly to the original poster of the photos.
Choose from:
* Everyone's Photos
Example:
***Below are instructions on how to insert or embed your photos, slideshows, videos that are not WildEarth content onto your "My Page":
How to use the Text Box areas on your "My Page" per the main Ning site:
What is a text box? What can I put in my text box?
A text box is a box to which you can add a variety of content. It's just another way to make a page your own! Simply click the "Edit" button in the top right corner of the text box to get started.
Network members can add the following to text boxes on their profile page:
Text
HTML
Pictures
Widgets
How do I add "embed" code to a text box?
Most widget providers and video sites will give you "embed" code for their widgets and videos. Here's how you add it to a text box.
1. Sign into the network.
2. Locate the text box you would like to add the code to. Click "Edit" in the upper right corner.
3. Copy and past the "embed" code into the text box and click "Save."
You can also embed any network slideshow, video or music player widget into a text box.
How do I put photos into the text box?
1. Sign into the network.
2. Locate the text box you would like to add the photo to. Click "Edit" in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "Add an Image" icon.
4. Insert an image that's already online by pasting the URL under "insert an existing image."
5. Click "Add."
How do I add a clickable link to my blog post? This should also work for the My Page Text Box.
To make text in your blog post into a clickable link, highlight the text you want to be linked and click the "Insert a Link" icon in the toolbar. This button looks like a chain link. In the box that pops up, type the URL you want the text to link to. Once you save your text box or blog post, anyone can use the link.
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Badger Release
We finally managed to release our two Honey Badgers at Kudu Game Ranch. Until release they had been cared for by our friends at the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre for over two months. This gave us time to arrange for the requisite permits and hopefully a sufficient gap to allow the badgers homing instincts to diminish. The delay also allowed us time to implant a radio tracker in one badger, such that we could monitor his progress via telemetry.
The second badger was sedated and given a VHF collar, not an easy task I can tell you. Catching and sedating him took four of us and resulted in one bitten shin and one badly chewed finger amongst the capture team. To be honest, our efforts were all in vain because no sooner had he recovered from sedation, than he managed to pull the collar off. We had expected him to shed the collar within a few days, and after we'd established his home range, but he was having none of it; and left the collar in the bottom of his transport cage. That leaves us with one badger to track, which is being monitored by volunteers from Kudu Game Ranch. Last night he wandered off the property and headed towards Lydenburg. Presumably to create havoc there. We'll do our best to follow him where ever he goes, but it won't now be easy as he's traversing a number of properties. This is new territory for us all, as we simply do not have data on Badger behaviour in these area's. What we do know is that badgers have a large home range and can trek for 25kms or more in one session. We just hope he takes an about turn and heads back to Kudu Ranch soon.
Written by Will Fox
UK tour raises some great questions
Some great questions have been raised by University students during my recent lecture tour in the UK, which have focused our thoughts on the direction of the ILP for the next years. Sure, we’re growing rapidly but it’s important to ensure that we focus on our core aims first and foremost. The object of our research is to gather data on the density and behaviour of leopards (and other carnivores) outside of formally protected areas. And why? Well it is in these areas (the largest land mass of South Africa) that leopards are in conflict with humans and in these areas where they are the last of the big five remaining truly wild.
So how can we conserve the dwindling leopard population. As said, first we need data, but also we need to develop wildlife management methods and techniques. Within this we need to become more than a pure research project and tackle some of the other issues. Education is undoubtedly a major factor. We need to get the message across in the right way. But we also need to develop and employ pragmatic management solutions. We will need a holding facility to temporarily detain problem animals, sufficient to give us time to ensure that any relocation does not compromise the genetic dynamics of an area and importantly that we do not create a problem in that area. Whether that be with local livestock, people, or other leopards.
All of this will mean we need more staff. Dedicated people who have a passion for wildlife conservation. We’ll also need more funding. But here is where we can offer something a little different. We want to create an ILP membership scheme (say$8 annual fee). However rather then just ask for a membership fee, in return we want to offer something more than a badge or membership card. Membership will then entitle folks to a 10% discount off an African Conservation Safari. As with everything we do, we look to our friends to give us their input and feedback, so if you have any thoughts on this concept then I'd love to hear from you.
Written by Will Fox
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