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UNEXPLORED: Photo exhibition at the Embassy of Brazil on the Amazonian rainforests. Photo: D.K. Bhaskar.
NEW DELHI: : Planet Earth's most diverse and mysterious eco-system, the Amazonian rain forest, is described as an unexplored paradise of natural history. Spread over eight South American countries - Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, French Guyana and Surinam - 33 per cent of these forests are on the Brazilian land measuring more than the entire European continent. The Amazonian landscape is home to nearly 3,000 species of fish, reptiles, snakes and mammals, including the world's biggest Otter. It also harbours more than 1,800 species of birds. A visit to this greatest natural wonder on earth is an education and a practical experience for anyone who comes here. "It really was an experience of a lifetime,'' says D. K. Bhaskar, an amateur wildlife photographer who has captured the flora and fauna of this unique landscape in his camera. His photographs are on display right now at a special exhibition in the Embassy of Brazil here in Delhi. The show will go on till April 28. Commissioned by a British organisation, `Projecto Parama', working on Amazonian rain forests in several areas, the Bangalore-born Bhaskar is an engineer by profession, based in London. His love for photography began six years ago when some of his pictures were published in newspapers. Bhaskar was approached last year for the project and travelled to the Amazonian forest land for 41 days in July and August last year for shooting, using his regular Nikon camera. "As far as I know, no Indian has photographed the forest so extensively,'' he told The Hindu here on Friday. The collection of pictures displayed shows the diverse landscape of Amazonian rain forests from the river, air and land. It depicts the diversity of life, people, landscape, flora, river, mangroves, sand dunes, untouched jungles and exotic flowers.
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