Dear Friends, My colleague Richard Corlett and I are preparing the second edition of our book, Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison. In this edition we would like to use more photos from African rain forests, but we are having trouble finding good animal, plant, and conservation pictures from THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, GABON, CAMEROON, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE, IVORY COAST, GHANA AND CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. Do you have any such photos from African rain forests that we could look at to see if they would be good for our book?
The list of photos that we need is given below. Please pass this request on to other people who might have such photos. Thanks in advance for your help, and best wishes for the New Year. Richard Primack Boston University Rain forest photos needed! Richard Corlett and Richard Primack are seeking new color photos to illustrate the second edition of their successful book: Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison, to be published by Wiley. If possible, all photos should be from rain forest areas, or at least tropical forest areas; though pictures from elsewhere will be considered as well. IN PARTICULAR, WE NEED PHOTOS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, GABON, CAMEROON, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE, IVORY COAST, GHANA AND CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. Please send photos, ONE AT A TIME, to: [email protected] Please send the files as TIFs at 300 dpi or higher, though JPEGs can also be used. You could also send the photos on-line using a service such YouSendIt.com. If you have many photos, you could also send them via CD to: Richard Primack, Biology Department, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A. Tel: 617-353-2432. We could also scan prints and slides if this is what you have. We would be glad to reimburse you for your shipping expenses via regular airmail. Please provide the names of the species in the photos, both common and scientific if known, and where the picture was taken. The book is intended primarily for students and researchers, so the sales will be only a few thousand copies. Please let us know if you need to be paid for the use of your photos, or if we can use them for free. Please share this message with other people who have good photographs. Thanks in advance for your help! Richard Primack and Richard Corlett Here are the photos that we need: Plants orchids, perhaps with bee visiting flower plants eaten by African elephants palm tree trees and seedlings of Gilbertiodendron, Microberlinia, or Tetraberlinia Ant plants, such as Cecropia and Macaranga, showing the ants Mammals guenon mandrill galago forest hog and red river hog duiker; mouse deer; pygmy antelopes, water chevrotain; and other small forest mammals African golden cat honey badger civets, genets, and mongooses cusimanses pygmy hippo okapi bongo; bushbuck, sitaunga, African forest elephant; and other large African forest mammals Reptiles Forest crocodiles forest monitor lizard A really big rain forest snake Birds Turaco; any species sunbird visiting flowers guineafowl, francolins, peafowl, peacock pheasants pittas crowned eagle and other raptors owls, especially an eagle owl pigeons or parrots eating fruits Bats and other flying animals bat eating fruit or visiting flowers anomalures Insects Butterflies; especially African giant swallowtails; other butterflies visiting flowers, salt licks or mating Ants plants, including Cecropia and Macaranga; perhaps with ants Termites and termite nests; including nasute termite. honey bee nest and bees visiting flowers; stingless bees Rain forest destruction and conservation indigenous people living in the rain forest. cattle and cattle pasture in cut over rain forest area subsistence farming, etc in cut over rain forest area oil palm plantation; cocao plantation fragmented forest forest edge logging activity; logging truck; loggers soldiers on forest edge hunters and bushmeat invasive species in rain forest; plants or animals. overcrowded village; perhaps lots of villagers posed in front of village protesters trying to stop logging or development; including villagers; priests; environmentalists; etc. successful rain forest conservation projects; plus a description of why it is successful.
