Biodiversity

最近和同事在忙着一个很有意思的案子...希望在年尾能够顺利完成!

[BBC Wildlife Magazine] Wildlife & Nature Photography

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2010

"每年全球有1亿多头鲨鱼被杀，这种屠杀行为受到亚洲市场高昂的鱼翅价格驱使肚子。这张照片里的这只雌鲨鱼里的小鲨鱼几乎已经足月。在被屠杀时，它眼里流出一行“血泪”。"

"这是加利福尼亚州偏远一角的一个犯罪现场，在内华达山脉地区，大量青蛙尸体肚皮朝上漂在水面上。它们是因壶菌(chytrid fungus)感染而死。"





 

"这张图片显示的是一张被废弃的网困住的海龟，它令人想到人类对海洋造成的破坏。西班牙摄影师约迪·齐亚斯·普约尔在巴塞罗纳和巴利阿里群岛之间航行时，拍到这张令人触目惊心的照片。"








British Wildlife Photography Awards

[National Geographic] Photography

(from National Geographic)

Mourning a Fallen Giant

Left to die by poachers who cut off its fins for sale as delicacies, a whale shark lies on a Philippine beach as a woman mourns its fate. Marine Photobank named this shot the "most compelling image" of 2010 in honor of the UN's International Year of Biodiversity.

In addition to hunting, plastics pose another threat to endangered whale sharks, Earle said. The gentle giants "eat plankton. They can have their innards clogged with the plastics that they inadvertently take in when they gulp great volumes of water in the course of feeding themselves. And they get tangled in old fishing gear that was discarded or in actively floated fishing gear."

New to the ocean as of the mid-20th century, plastics are now overwhelming marine systems, Earle noted. In fact, plastics are changing the overall chemistry of the ocean and of the creatures that ingest them