ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photos by Carlton Ward Jr. @carltonward | I was hanging from a pine tree on a cattle ranch in Highlands County photographing a young Florida black bear in a clearing below, when it suddenly stood up on its back legs, looked around, and then scrambled high into another pine. Then I saw a much bigger male bear was coming down the trail. The young bear stayed draped over the lowest branch, still higher than my tree stand, and patiently waited for the the big bear to move on. Then the little bear slid down the tree and scurried away. Four years before, I was hanging in another pine on an adjacent ranch when my friends were hosting a "bear workshop" at nearby Archbold Biological Station. This was when we first officially proposed the Florida Wildlife Corridor project, based on bear science and the Florida Ecological Greenways Network. The black bears living on the nearby ranches, and their wide landscape movements illuminated by my friends’ research, showed us how we could save wild Florida. Now more than ever, we need to accelerate the pace of conservation to save the statewide Florida Wildlife Corridor for bears, other wildlife and ourselves. Visit @carltonward to see me in my tree stand and a photo the little bear and big bear in the same frame. @fl_wildcorridor @archboldstation #Bear #FloridaWildlifeCorridor #PathofthePanther #FloridaWild #KeepFLWild @ilcp_photographers @natgeoimagecollection」7月9日 6時29分