Environment
I try not to despair about mankind’s impact on nature, but that is hard.
Often it is not the big ticket items that make the news, but it is the small scale damage seen everywhere - discarded rubbish, discarded fishing tackle, the things that would be easy to avoid with just a little care. Typically I don’t turn my camera on these things, I want to celebrate what is wonderful on the planet and not dwell on the negative, but sometimes it just has to be recorded and held up as a reminder of the damage we do.
Vervet Monkey. Egypt and Morocco have IKEA stores - nowhere else in Africa does. Someone has carried this bag thousands of miles to a wilderness area and discarded it. Chobe National Park, Botswana. March 2024
Yellow-billed kite and tiger fish caught in a discarded fishing net. Chobe river, Botswana. March 2024
Yellow-billed kite and tiger fish caught in a discarded fishing net. Chobe river, Botswana. March 2024
Yellow-billed kite and tiger fish caught in a discarded fishing net. Chobe river, Botswana. March 2024
Redshank with bound feet - at first I thought 'how lovely' when I saw this redshank skipping through the water... then I saw the fishing twine binding his feet. Obidos lagoon, Portugal. September 2002