Some cool endangered animals images:
Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)
Image by warriorwoman531
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a moderately large cat native to the mountain ranges of South Asia and Central Asia. Snow leopards have long thick fur, and their base color varies from smoky gray to yellowish tan, with whitish underparts. They have dark gray to black open rosettes on their body with small spots of the same color on their heads and larger spots on their legs and tail. Unusually among cats, their eyes are pale green or gray in color.It is listed as an Endangered animal.
Photographed at the San Diego Zoo
Endangered Species - Knight's House
Image by Matt. Create. (formerly Roads Less Traveled)
Close-up details of the building seen here…
www.flickr.com/photos/mattsh/4735168486/
One of Kyiv’s most architecturally unique buildings is empty and decaying and likely to stay that way. The “Knight’s House” at Yaroslaviv Val 1, a phantasmagoria of mediaeval motifs including a castle tower and gargoyles – has been vacant for almost 10 years since its former communal apartments were dissolved and the building privatized.
“This is a gem of Kyiv’s architecture,” explains art historian and conservationist Natalia Musiyenko. “It was originally a luxury apartment block with splendid interiors, built at the end of the 19th century by Nikolai Dobachevsky, but it is suffering from criminal neglect.”
Read more: www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/72769/#ixzz0tYGA9UDx
Sadly, there's little incentive for owners to fix up these historic properties. Since there is no property tax in Kiev, once someone owns a building, there is no additional cost to letting it sit vacant. Fixing historic buildings is costly; letting it fall down and selling the property to developers is profitable.
And there's probably a lot less bureaucracy to deal with when building on vacant land too.
Ahh, profit motive and bureaucracy. They rear their ugly heads again...
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Coming soon. New Photo Series. Life in the USSR.
Nothing too profound. Just some snapshots of my wife's family from Soviet Union times.
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