Natural History Photographs


Most land in Crete is somehow used for human purposes - as everywhere in Europe. While such human usage can have negative impacts, as with grazing of goats, the current landscape with its flora and fauna is inescapably the result of such human usage. A positive side-effect is that human settlement makes areas more easily accessible. For instance, there are many small chapels in the landscape, and where there is a chapel, there is a road. This site is a typical example of a location that is accessible due to human presence, in the form of a little chapel. Again we found Aristolochia cretica, this time also an aberrant color form.