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Farol de Mandacaru visto do Rio Preguiças, estado do Maranhão, Brasil.
Denise Hiller Guimarães
Fotografía de un ave en busca de alimentos en medio de la acumulación de residuos sólidos que se han arrojado en las orillas del Humedal del Complejo Lagunar Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta
Dayana Carreño
Fishing for Dinner. Two men went for fishing at the Samas Lagoon. They tried to catch some fishes with a fishing hook for dinner. Their family will be happy to eat the fishes.
Michael Abhiseka Wasesajati
Photo made on the banks of the river "Volga" in Zelenodolsk region of Tatarstan. This river is very important for the locals.
Samat Mindubaev
Tourists and locals enjoying the beach in a sustainable way.
Cristine Huff
Abused wetland is a wasteland: that will collapse taking every life form and diversity with it!!
Dibya Bhatta
Ireland is surrounded of water, and is a place where rain almost 365 days a year.The Corrib River through Galway city until the sea. Is this river that supplies Galway City and grand part of time people are around it, swimming, practicing some sports.Without Corriby River, Galway never could be Galway,
isis Terra
I visited this wetland in the summer of 2015. I was in the Ankara Province of Turkey studying the Northern Anatolian Fault, but my professor stopped us on our way to our field site to show us the Cayirhan Bird Sanctuary. He explained to us that it was formed by an ancient ocean and is now home to 179 bird species. In the distance I could see the Kizilbar Formation, Paleocene-Low Eocene in age. The red litharenite was remarkable against the micrite and mudstone and reflecting a perfect mirror image in the water, and when the light hit it just right it reminded me of a sunrise. However what was more striking than the beauty of the Bird Sanctuary was the fact that days before I had toured a Turkish coal mine that was just a couple of miles up the road. I was still coming to terms with having been geared up and sent 250 meters underground for a process that exploits the earth natural resources. In my mind the Bird Sanctuary juxtaposition with the Coal Mine is a reflection on the way humans choose to use and interact with the earth around them.
Emily Santos
One blue adventure
Teodora Vasilescu
Region with plenty of water, where residents use as most living fishing and farming.
Yasmim Alves Araujo de Oliveira
O município de Ribeirópolis possui uma área de 263 km², está inserido parcialmente na Bacia do rio Sergipe que integra a microrregião de Carira, situada na zona oeste, transição de Agreste com o Sertão. Assim como vários municípios que enfrentam problemas de escassez de água, o município de Ribeirópolis possui o açude do Cajueiro, este foi construído em 1956 com o propósito de reduzir a carência de água na região, possibilitando a convivência da população com a seca. O açude vem sendo usado ao longo do tempo para o abastecimento humano e animal, irrigação e criação de peixes.
Aichha Carolina Pereira
Kampala is the capital city of Uganda and it is located in the central region of the country. It has an area of about 238 square kilometers, a big part of which was once a wetland. Geographically Kampala is referred to as a city of seven hills separated by valleys with swamps and streams also called wetlands. Today the wetlands in this area is on the verge of extinction as they are being threatened by the increasing population in the city. Kampala's wetlands are mostly located on the shores thus their waters are collected and poured in the lakes like Victoria which is the largest in East Africa. What has remained of these places is the drainage channels which have diverted the flow of water out of these wetlands. The expansion of the city from its old self to the current location has greatly lead to the depletion of wetlands around it. Historically, Kampala's wetlands go back before 1900 when they belonged to the Kabaka (king) of Buganda.(Buganda was one of the ancient kingdoms in Uganda). Under the colonial rule, these wetlands were turned to the Queen of Britain in the name of crownland and were supervised by the colonial governors. No person during that time was allowed to encroach on these wetlands. With the exit of colonial masters after independence, these wetlands suffered from conflicts over their ownership. The cultural leaders and new politicians mismanaged these areas and the wetlands were destroyed totally. In Kampala, the city and its immediate environment is managed and administered by the City Council of Kampala. This government body has greatly fostered destruction of these treasured areas. The city council has neglected the laws set up to protect the wetlands. Under section 74 of the Public Health Act, one who interferes with the land around the city should be sued in court but, due to corruption, Kampala City Council has sold off these areas to "money hungry" people who have reclaimed these areas to an extent of extinction. The Government of Uganda has conflicting ideologies over environmental protection with respect to economic growth and so, no real supervision is done over the authorities in charge of wetland conservation. The call for modernisation of Kampala's areas and industrialization by politicians and other leaders today, we fear that Kampala's wetlands will not survive.
Nassanga Moureen
Small lake on peat bog in Šumava National park and behind it is the dead forest from bark beetles
Veronika Hadacová
Fisherman on boat in Inle lake
Atsushi TANABE
Keibul Lamjao National Park located in Manipur is the only floating park in the world with an area of about 40 sq.km. The park is the home to last viable population of " Sangai" brow antlered deer (Rucervus eldii eldii). The national park is floating over the Loktak lake which is listed in the RAMSAR sites.
Tshering Zam
La pêche au carrelet en Charente-Maritime.Cette photo a été prise à Tonnay-Charente le long de La Charente.A l'origine, l’ancêtre du carrelet était la balance, petit filet (< 1m²) en forme de plateau de « balance » qui était dédiée à la pêche à la crevette et à l'écrevisse. Au fil du temps et des évolutions, le filet s’agrandit, il devint un carrelet.
Elisa HEURTAUX
Lake Uru Uru, is the smaller brother of lake Poopó in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Together they form a valuable RAMSAR-site since July 2002. A place where both, indigneous people and endemic and endangered birds, such as the Chilean flamingo, can find their foodAlthough this beautiful landscape seems perfect (as some the pictures may suggest): Blue water, open sky, nature and people living peacefuly together. There is also a counterside. Both the lakes got heavily contaminated because of various factors. Mining activities in the sorrounding region, bad management of sewer coming from te city of Oruro and a too low awareness about waste management. Due to the contamination hundreds of thousands of fish have died in November 2014. Meaning an inmense loss of food and economic resources for the local indigenous Uru population in the region. On top of that also the danger of extinction for the red list species and the local Uru people living in this area.On the field trip we where undertaking we met a girl walking along a deserted road going through the Lago Uru Uru area. Driving past the heavily contaminated wetlands this only dramaticised the whole picture. We took the girl with us to the farm she and her mother where working that day at the end of the road where the road ends in the Lago Uru Uru. The farm situated in the little traditional Uru-houses, only less than a mile away from the heavily contaminated fields, keeps both sheeps and cows living alongside of the lake. Also a large variety of bird-species can be spotted in this area. Delivering really pittoresque images. On the other hand stories were told by the farmer that the sheep were being born more and more in deformed way. Also the farms’ cows where faced with more and more miscarriages. The cause for these severe problems for the Uru-population is not really hard to find since the proof is literally around the corner.
Laurens
LA FAUNA ES UNO DE LOS ACTORES DE LOS LAGOS, AYUDAN PARA QUE EL ECOSISTEMA SEA ESTABLE, CADA ELEMENTO DE UN LAGO ES INDISPENSABLE PARA SU CONSERVACIÓN, ENTRE ELLOS LAS AVES
MARIELA CASILLAS ZUBIETA
Wetlands near Enisala Fortress
VICTOR MARIUS GAIDARGIU
Eat devastating action of man , the Paraíba do Sul River reached the limit of their dry . One of the worst droughts in the history of the Paraiba do Sul River.
Mateus Curty
Água viva fotografada ao nascer do Sol na Praia de Porto de Galinhas.
Paulo Roberto da Silva Junior Junior
Lower kaduna middle niger flood plain, at patigi
Bashiru Saliu
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
David Steinwender
This is a place from Enisala fortress Romania , there people can spend their free time in a quiet place in the nature between animals of the sky and land .
Minerva Cioiu
Coastline is changing. Mangroves along the coast are facing severe land use change due to unplanned city expansion, diminishing the ecosystem services these provide to society such as extreme tides control. Cartagena city, as many others located by the sea, is seriously threated by sea level rise and increase of extreme events frequency, and mangroves are natural barriers which reduce the impact of these phenomena. Unfortunately unplanned urban soil expansion is taking over this ecosystems, increasing the exposure of society to sea level change risks and demanding in the future expensive grey infrastructure based solutions for a problem which nature can help us to solve for free.
Jorge Leon
Fishermen fish in the wetland
seyed Khalil ghaim Mousavi
A solitary skater watches the northern sunset while gliding over smooth ice on a Toronto lagoon. It is an enchanted location where people can experience nature and solitude within Canada's largest urban area. The ice season was shorter this year because of global warming.
Hannah Mittelstaedt