Nick Hawkins / Fishing ropes wrap around the head and mouth, damaging the baleen of a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Fishing gear entanglem...
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Nick Hawkins / Fishing ropes wrap over the blowhole of a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Fishing gear entanglement is a leading cause of dea...
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Alex Mustard / Black hamlet (Hypoplectrus nigricans) and Yellowbelly hamlet (Hypoplectrus aberrans) spawning at dusk. As this genus is quite recently evolved hybridization is still possible. Hamlets are one of the...
Jordi Chias / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) trapped in an abandoned drifting net, Balearic Channel, Mediterranean sea.
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Nick Garbutt / Yellow Anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) in vegetation at the edge of the Paraguay River, Taiama Reserve, western Pantanal, Brazil, South America.
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Denis-Huot / Rear view of Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) herd crossing the Mara river, Masai-Mara game reserve, Kenya.
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Bence Mate / Great egret (Ardea alba) and Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) fighting over a fish, Lake Csaj, Kiskunsagi National Park, Hungary
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Sirachai Arunrugstichai / Decomposing carcass of a juvenile Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) caught / entangled in ghost nets, with Scuba divers removing nets from the reefs in background, Phuket, Thailand, Anda...
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Sirachai Arunrugstichai / Decomposing carcass of a juvenile Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) caught / entangled in ghost nets in shallow reef, Phuket, Thailand, Andaman Sea.
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Sirachai Arunrugstichai / Decomposing carcass of a juvenile Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) caught / entangled in discarded ghost nets, Phuket, Thailand, Andaman Sea.
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Doug Gimesy / Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) tag still connected to a weather balloon which entangled and killed two Australasian gannets (Morus serrator), Brighton Beach, Victoria, Australia.
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Henley Spiers / Olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) with pectoral fin trapped in fishing line, Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Pacific Ocean.
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Henley Spiers / Blue jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) with Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) trapped in its tentacles and Common guillemot (Uria aalge) swimming above, Berwickshire Marine Reserve, Scotland, North Sea, UK....
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Alex Mustard / Pair of mating orange Nudibranchs (Tritonia hombergi) in a bed of Common brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis) and their favourite food, Deadman's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), Loch Carron, Highlands...
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Alex Mustard / Pair of mating orange Nudibranchs (Tritonia hombergi) in a bed of Common brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis) and their favourite food, Deadman's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), Loch Carron, Highlands...
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Doug Gimesy / Drowned Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) found entangled in a Bureau of Meteorology radiosonde (i.e. weather balloon). Brighton Beach, Victoria, Australia.
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Will Watson / Large goat willow (Salix caprea) reflected on kettle hole pool, Herefordshire, England, UK. April, 2021.
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Doug Perrine / Dead juvenile Silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) entangled in a derelict fishing net (ghost net ) attached to a homemade FAD ( fish aggregating device), off the Kona Coast, Hawaii.
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David Perpinan / Reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) caught in mist net, Ebro Delta, Tarragona, Spain, June.
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Doug Perrine / Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus), dead with bill wrapped on a longline in open ocean. Pacific Ocean, Southern Costa Rica. 2019.
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Doug Perrine / Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus), dead with bill wrapped on a longline in open ocean. Pacific Ocean, Southern Costa Rica. 2019.
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Shane Gross / Plastic in the form of fishing nets and bags gets entangled in mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) roots, The Bahamas.
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Sergio Hanquet / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), two tangled in nylon fishing line, one dead, the other rescued alive. Tenerife, Canary Islands.
Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging entangled in urban fruit-tree netting. Despite being rescued, the netting had cut the circulation to its wing for too long and so the bat had to...
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Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging entangled in urban fruit-tree netting. Despite being rescued, the netting had cut the circulation to its wings for too long and so the bat had t...
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Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging caught under back yard fruit tree netting. This is wildlife friendly netting so he was released without injury. Victoria, Australia. March.
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Nick Hawkins / A North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) struggles to free itself from being entangled in fishing gear in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Fishing gear entanglement is a leading cause of...
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Nick Hawkins / A North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) struggles to free itself from being entangled in fishing gear in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Fishing gear entanglement is a leading cause of...
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Nick Hawkins / Fishing ropes wrap over the blowhole of a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Fishing gear entanglement is a leading cause of dea...
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Nick Hawkins / Fishing ropes wrap over the blowhole of a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Fishing gear entanglement is a leading cause of dea...
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Nick Hawkins / Entanglement scars from fishing gear on the tail of a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. IUCN Status: Endangered. August
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Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Tangle of roots and lianas, Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve, Qingchuan County, Sichuan province, China
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Alex Mustard / Hard coral (Acropora sp.) entangled with fishing net. Ambon Bay, Ambon, Maluku Archipelago, Indonesia. Banda Sea, tropical west Pacific Ocean. November, 2017.
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Eladio Fernandez / Gumbo Limbo tree (Bursera simaruba) growing on karst substrate, Cienaga de Zapata, UNESCO Biospehere Reserve, Cuba.
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Eladio Fernandez / Broad leaf forest that temporarily floods, Cienaga de Zapata UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Cuba.
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Markus Varesvuo / Great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) flying past trees, Kempele, Finland, January.
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Markus Varesvuo / Great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) flying among snowy tree, Kempele, Finland, January.
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Markus Varesvuo / Great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) Helsinki, Finland, October.
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Jiri Lochman / Crested tern (Sterna bergii) juvenile entangled in a fishing line, likely cut off by a fisherman after the bird swallowed the hooked bait. Australia.
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Jiri Lochman / Crested tern (Sterna bergii) juvenile, entangled in a fishing line, likely cut off by a fisherman after the bird swallowed the hooked bait Australia.
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Werner Bollmann / Tangle of seaweed on beach, Flakstadoya, Norway.
Edwin Giesbers / Fishing lines which were tangled around Swans caught during Swan upping, the annual census and marking of the Swans on the River Thames. England, UK, July 2016.
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Staffan Widstrand / Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) forest in Batenta Island, Raja Ampat, Western Papua, Indonesian New Guinea.
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Seth Patterson / Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) entangled and drowned in the Brazos Santiago ship channel, Isla Blanca Park, South Padre Island, Texas, USA, May.
