I hope you do not mind me contacting you but in searching the internet for images of Elaphe quatuorlineata I found this fantastic image on your P Base account which I would be interested in using for ARKive, if you would like to become involved.
ARKive - www.arkive.org - is a unique conservation initiative.
Films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s animals, plants and fungi are being gathered into one centralised digital library. To date we have created digital multi-media profiles for nearly 8,000 species, digitising and storing more than 50,000 still images and over 100 hours of moving footage. These important audio-visual records are being preserved and maintained for the benefit of future generations and are being made available via the ARKive website.
• It is ARKive's current aim to compile audio-visual records for the 17,000-plus species currently threatened with extinction, according to the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
• We are looking for media (moving footage, still images, audio) to depict each species' life history as comprehensively as possible. In order for us to achieve this aim we need help from as wide a variety of donors as possible and would like to be able to add you to our list of contributors.
• The ARKive website acts as a showcase for image providers, displaying copyright and contact details with every image and links to each media donor's own web activities.
See examples of species which have been ARKived at www.arkive.org.
Please let me know if you would like to contribute to ARKive or if you have any queries.
Best wishes,
George Bradford
"Over the past few decades a vast treasury of wildlife images has been steadily accumulating, yet no one has known its full extent - or its gaps - and no one has had a comprehensive way of gaining access to it. ARKive will put that right. It will become an invaluable tool for all concerned with the well-being of the natural world.”
Sir David Attenborough
"ARKive is a noble project, one of the most valuable in all of biology and conservation practice. It has whatever support I am able to give it."
Professor E. O. Wilson, Harvard University
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George Bradford
ARKive Media Researcher
Wildscreen
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