Some cool animal jobs images:
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Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: As the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, Thomas Smillie used images to catalog the much of the institution's physical object collection, ranging from stuffed animals to plant fossils, decorative boxes, and beyond. The photographs themselves are now part of the Smithsonian's collection.
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie's duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum's installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie's documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution's art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Culture: American
Date: 1890-12-31
Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) - Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession number: RU95_Box78_0021
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Image by Helmandblog
Captain Miles Malone working in full kit including helmet and body amour running the clinic is hard work.
A lasting legacy from the Herriot of Helmand
Captain Miles Malone is the British Forces’ only vet in Afghanistan. Dubbed “The Herriot of Helmand,” he has become a minor sensation in the province after starting a raft of veterinary clinics for local farmers.
His principal job is caring for the dogs that sniff for roadside bombs and provide protection to the troops on duty. Keeping them at their peak is important, as the work they do here saves lives.
However, in the seven months that he has been in Helmand, the 28 year old from Mount Bures, near Sudbury, in Suffolk, has begun a series of monthly clinics for the remote farming communities around the main British base, Camp Bastion, and they have proved wildly popular.
With only a few weeks to go before his tour of duty in Helmand comes to an end he packed his kit and prepared a selection of drugs for another clinic.
In two hardened cool boxes he can carry enough equipment to treat up to two thousand animals. While he has been running regular clinics, this one was different.
It took an RAF Chinook to fly him out to a small, newly constructed, patrol base established after the largest helicopter assault codenamed Operation Moshtarak pushed the Taliban out of Nad Ali.
After landing at Patrol Base Shaheed which was set up by soldiers of B Company, the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, he was straight out on a patrol to spread the word. Out here the range of animals are a little different but, to the farmers, they are their lifeblood.
“These animals are basically their back accounts. Some of these goats are worth each. A lot of people round here are surviving on about a dollar a day so economically they are extremely important,” said Captain Miles Malone.
Over this tour the clinics have had a noticeable effect, not only on the health of the herds, but in loosening the grip of the Taliban over the people also. Captain Malone has treated over 8,000 animals, and this clinic at Shaheed has added a further 61 farmers to his program.
In contrast to the gentle adventures of James Herriot in North Yorkshire, Captain Malone’s work is at the other end of the spectrum, undertaken with the protection of well-armed Afghan and British soldiers.
“There is very little understanding among the local farmers of veterinary care or basic animal husbandry. So I split my time when I run clinics between treating the flocks and educating the farmers. The Taliban just cannot compete,” said Captain Miles Malone.
“The village that we are living in is largely an agricultural community. Having the opportunity for a vet to come down and deliver medication, treatment and also advice to the local farmers has been a real win. In part because it displays our intent to stay here and that our actions are in support of the community. But it also adds back to the economy here because it increases the value of the livestock and educates the farmers, so it is a win on both fronts,” said Major Ed Hill, officer commanding B Company 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh at Patrol Base Shaheed.
But what of the future and sustaining this work? Captain Malone’s replacement has just arrived and following on from his success a second military vet has been sent out to concentrate on expanding the clinics.
While the military may have started the ball rolling, they need the Afghans to take over and run it for themselves. This is where non-government organisations like the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad are helping. They are working to train Afghan veterinary technicians who can continue the work long after the British troops have gone home.
Picture Credit: Major Paul Smyth
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Image by Helmandblog
A local boy come down to the clinic to see if he can bring his flock of sheep.
A lasting legacy from the Herriot of Helmand
Captain Miles Malone is the British Forces’ only vet in Afghanistan. Dubbed “The Herriot of Helmand,” he has become a minor sensation in the province after starting a raft of veterinary clinics for local farmers.
His principal job is caring for the dogs that sniff for roadside bombs and provide protection to the troops on duty. Keeping them at their peak is important, as the work they do here saves lives.
However, in the seven months that he has been in Helmand, the 28 year old from Mount Bures, near Sudbury, in Suffolk, has begun a series of monthly clinics for the remote farming communities around the main British base, Camp Bastion, and they have proved wildly popular.
With only a few weeks to go before his tour of duty in Helmand comes to an end he packed his kit and prepared a selection of drugs for another clinic.
In two hardened cool boxes he can carry enough equipment to treat up to two thousand animals. While he has been running regular clinics, this one was different.
It took an RAF Chinook to fly him out to a small, newly constructed, patrol base established after the largest helicopter assault codenamed Operation Moshtarak pushed the Taliban out of Nad Ali.
After landing at Patrol Base Shaheed which was set up by soldiers of B Company, the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, he was straight out on a patrol to spread the word. Out here the range of animals are a little different but, to the farmers, they are their lifeblood.
“These animals are basically their back accounts. Some of these goats are worth each. A lot of people round here are surviving on about a dollar a day so economically they are extremely important,” said Captain Miles Malone.
Over this tour the clinics have had a noticeable effect, not only on the health of the herds, but in loosening the grip of the Taliban over the people also. Captain Malone has treated over 8,000 animals, and this clinic at Shaheed has added a further 61 farmers to his program.
In contrast to the gentle adventures of James Herriot in North Yorkshire, Captain Malone’s work is at the other end of the spectrum, undertaken with the protection of well-armed Afghan and British soldiers.
“There is very little understanding among the local farmers of veterinary care or basic animal husbandry. So I split my time when I run clinics between treating the flocks and educating the farmers. The Taliban just cannot compete,” said Captain Miles Malone.
“The village that we are living in is largely an agricultural community. Having the opportunity for a vet to come down and deliver medication, treatment and also advice to the local farmers has been a real win. In part because it displays our intent to stay here and that our actions are in support of the community. But it also adds back to the economy here because it increases the value of the livestock and educates the farmers, so it is a win on both fronts,” said Major Ed Hill, officer commanding B Company 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh at Patrol Base Shaheed.
But what of the future and sustaining this work? Captain Malone’s replacement has just arrived and following on from his success a second military vet has been sent out to concentrate on expanding the clinics.
While the military may have started the ball rolling, they need the Afghans to take over and run it for themselves. This is where non-government organisations like the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad are helping. They are working to train Afghan veterinary technicians who can continue the work long after the British troops have gone home.
Picture Credit: Major Paul Smyth
Crown Copyright
