Albatross Memorial via Thomas P Peschak, Germany / South Africa:
As unlikely as it may seem, this exhibition illustrates a history of South Africa’s good fortune of conservation.It represents the relatively smallest number of seabird deaths: in this case, shy albatross and yellow-nosed albatross (a hook still at the peak) and white chin petrels.- trapped in 2017 in constant palangres via Japanese tuna boats off the coast of South Africa.The main line of a ship can be made larger in more than 80 km (50 miles), with thousands of baited hooks. When small seabirds dive and bring baited hooks to the surface, petrels and albatross check to sweep all their catch, cling and drown.
In recent years, more seabird-friendly fishing practices (placing after-darkness lines, heavy hooks sinking faster, transporting scarecrow lines) have drastically reduced annual bird catches in South Africa.It is estimated that every year worldwide, more than 300,000 seabirds, totaling 100,000 albatross, still die through palangres alone.
This is taken from a hippo in the dust of the Mara River in Kenya.”I saw that every time they went out to breathe, the dust would create a mask on their faces and I tried to capture that moment with my camera,” Fragazo said..
Always alert, a giant gavial male, at least four m (13 ft) long, sustains its giant offspring.The long-nosed crocodile is now critically endangered, with only about 650 adults remaining.
With a determined glance, a young fox firmly holds his trophy, a dead brown rat, while his brother tries to take it.For the past 4 years, Matthew has photographed foxes living in a London development.
Like all foxes, they are opportunistic, taking advantage of all the food available, whether it’s food for humans or discarded animals.The rat may have been provided through one of the adults, who continue to feed their young until August, but it is rare for foxes to catch rats.
Taken in the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland, England, Evie took the picture as he waited near the puffin burrows, watching adults return with bites of sand eels.Puffins also have several nesting sites in Ireland, but are in decline around the world.
A giant wandering spider, with black hook-shaped tusks that tilt its bristling, striped mouth portions, pierces the egg of a giant glass frog, injects digestive juices and then sucks its liquefied prey in the Manduriacu reserve in northwestern Ecuador.8 centimeters (3 inches) devour the eggs of a glass frog.
As night falls on Alberta’s oil sands, the stripped landscape takes on an oily blue hue.This vast expanse, an unmarried boreal forest, is just a segment of the Mildred Lake tar mine, one of the region’s many tar mines.which in combination constitute the third largest oil reserve in the world.The environmental effect on the entire operation is threefold.First, mines are created by logging the boreal forest, a rich ecosystem and a vital land carbon sink.Second, the low-grade oil extraction procedure consumes a lot of energy and, according to the Aboriginal peoples of the first nations of the region, continues.Third, fully exploiting this high-emission fuel source will result in the release of massive amounts of carbon that time scientists believe will contribute disproportionately to global emissions and make global warming more unlikely to remain below 2 degrees Celsius and prevent catastrophic climate change.
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