Information about the Jungle Photos website, its mission and history
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Jungle Photos Mission
Jungle Photos provides accurate information and excellent images to inspire people to support wilderness conservation and education. Jungle Photos is dedicated to conservation of our natural world through inspiring people to educate themselves. The Amazon rainforest is the main vehicle for our mission, while web pages on the Galapagos Islands and Africa provide visitors an opportunity to learn about these areas. The Jungle Photos web pages provide free photos and information that are accessible to all.
Jungle Photos Users
Students, teachers and travelers will enjoy learning about specific regions or about particular topics relevant to each region. Students can use the site as a resource for school projects and assignments, whereas teachers can get source material for lessons. The lesson plan sections provide specific themes around which to provide students curriculum-based lessons. Travelers to the regions will get an idea of what these places are like, and a feel for what to expect. JPUG is the Jungle Photos Users Group. Join up to ask questions about the site, suggest improvements and swap pictures and information with other users. (Visit JPUG for more information.)
Jungle Photos History
Jungle Photos first went on-line on November 13, 2000. It was begun primarily as a showcase to present
the photographs of Roger Harris, from his travels while leading tours to the Amazon rainforest since
1992. Since then it has evolved into an educational website with a wide range of images and information
on the Galapagos Islands and Africa, as well as the Amazon rainforest. You can get an idea of what the
early versions looked like at the Way Back Machine Internet archive.
The Jungle Photos project is on-going. The website is constantly revised and updated to meet visitors' needs.
Focus has been on building a robust expandable architecture, with a modular structure that is readily
adaptable to incorporating additional content. This goal has been achieved so present activities include
adding content, interactivity and building partnerships.
In particular, the news sections are updated regularly with relevant items from across the World
Wide Web, and will be available as RSS news feeds. The additional information pages that are linked to
each image page are frequently revised as new information, or print or electronic publications
become available.
Jungle Photos Visitor Statistics
Jungle Photos traffic has grown consistently. Since going online in late 2000, the website has welcomed over one million visitors. Early traffic when the site first went on-line in 2000 was around 100 to 200 unique visitors per day. Present traffic is about 5,000 to 6,000 unique visitors per day.
Jungle Photos Intellectual Property
The Jungle Photos website is a unique learning system, based on initiating interest with appropriate imagery, and then providing tools for further learning. As such, the Jungle Photos model constitutes proprietary technology and the Intellectual Property of the creator. Likewise, all material content including images, icons, written content, design and layout are the sole property of Jungle Photos, and may not be used without permission.
What is jungle?
According to Wikipedia, "jungle" means a forest. The word originated from a Sanskrit word
jangala, that means wilderness. Mostly it used to refer to a to a tropical forest with
densely tangled vegetation, vines and creepers.
In most speaking countries, it has a generic meaning of tropical rainforest. However, in many
languages of the Indian sub-continent, such as Hindi (jangal), it is used mean any
wilderness. In English, the first record of the use of the word, in the sense of land with a wild
tangled mass of vegetation, dates from 1849.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle
The word jungle has been used in association with other concepts, notably that of the "concrete
jungle" used to describe modern cities, generally in a sense of dangerous and unpleasant (quite
unlike real jungle!). Some sources cite Bob Marley as having coined the term with his reggae
classic "Concrete Jungle" on his 1973 album Catch a Fire. However, the term's popular usage
probably originated with British zoologist Desmond Morris who wrote "The city is not a concrete
jungle, it is a human zoo" in his book, The Human Zoo first published 1969 by Jonathan Cape. Morris
may well have derived the term from Upton Sinclair who coined the phrase "asphalt jungle" in his
novel The Jungle published 1949. Jungle gym was a name trademarked in 1923, by Junglegym Inc.,
Chicago, U.S., used to refer to a children's play structure comprised of vertical and horizontal
rods (usually wood or metal).
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
—Albert Einstein
