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Marine garbage: fishing nets with dead eider duck, Westerhever, German Wadden Sea Garbage has always been discarded into the ocean, but since the 1940s, plastic use has increased dramatically, resulting in a huge quantity of nearly indestructible, lightweight material floating in the oceans and eventu...

By Peter Prokosch

Marine garbage: fishing nets, Westerhever, German Wadden Sea Garbage has always been discarded into the ocean, but since the 1940s, plastic use has increased dramatically, resulting in a huge quantity of nearly indestructible, lightweight material floating in the oceans and eventu...

By Peter Prokosch

Macoma balthica (Baltic clam), German Wadden Sea Macoma balthica, Baltic clam, a small marine bivalve mollusk, is the main food source of the long distant migratory shorebird species red knot in the Wadden Sea, Iceland, Northern Norway and other spring staging (refuel...

By Peter Prokosch

Thick-billed Murre or Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia), Svalbard The Thick-billed Murre or Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae). It breeds on coasts and islands in the High Arctic of Europe, Asia and North America, where it is one of the most numero...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic expedition tourism, Svalbard WWF once facilitated a process of developing Arctic guidelines for tourists and tour companies. Representatives from local communities, governments, different sectors of the tourism industry, conservation organisations a...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic mosses, Alkhornet, Svalbard Mosses form an important part of Arctic tundra habitats and grow thickly here, where there is sufficient water and soil. They can be so thick in places that walking on them gives the sensation of stepping on a soft mattr...

By Peter Prokosch

Moss campion, (Silene acaulis) Svalbard Silene acaulis, or moss campion, is a small mountain-dwelling wildflower that is common all over the high arctic and the higher mountains of Eurasia and North America. It is densely tufted, forming domed cushions comp...

By Peter Prokosch

Falling ice from glacier front with blue ice , Svalbard Glacial ice appears blue under immense pressure. Snow falling onto ice is compressed as the glacier winds its way through valleys, to a body of water (river, lake, ocean etc.) During its travels, air bubbles trapped in t...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier front with meltwater fall and blue ice Svalbard Glacial ice appears blue under immense pressure. Snow falling onto ice is compressed as the glacier winds its way through valleys, to a body of water (river, lake, ocean etc.) During its travels, air bubbles trapped in t...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier front with blue ice, Svalbard Glacial ice appears blue under immense pressure. Snow falling onto ice is compressed as the glacier winds its way through valleys, to a body of water (river, lake, ocean etc.) During its travels, air bubbles trapped in t...

By Peter Prokosch

Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus,) Porsanger Fjord The Horned Grebe or Slavonian Grebe, Podiceps auritus, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It appears in Northern Norway (here at a breeding site at the Porsanger fjord) when in May the lake ice is opening. ...

By Peter Prokosch

Private yacht in polar waters Travelling by boat in the waters around Svalbard offers unparalleled access to many of the most interesting sights the archipelago has to offer. In recent years, around 40 private yachts visit Svalbard each year.

By Bjorn Alfthan

Inquisitive Polar bear on the pack ice, Svalbard Svalbard's polar bears belong to the Barents Sea population, one of 19 different polar bear populations recognised by scientists. Svalbard's population, estimated in the several thousands, is the only one not hunted with...

By Bjorn Alfthan

Tourist cruise ship, Svalbard A number of cruise ship operators work on Svalbard during the summer months, bringing tourists from across the world to visit the landscapes and biodiversity of this Arctic archipelago. Most, if not all, of these cruise ...

By Bjorn Alfthan

Brünnich’s guillemot, Hinlopen Strait, Svalbard Brünnich’s guillemots number in their hundreds of thousands at this colony in Hinlopen Strait, between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet in Svalbard. A migratory species that winters normally winters off the waters of Icela...

By Bjorn Alfthan

Brünnich’s guillemot colony, Hinlopen Strait, Svalbard Brünnich’s guillemot, which breeds on steep cliff edges, are prodigious divers. Their food is normally caught at depths of approximately 50 metres, but depths of 200 metres have also been recorded.

By Bjorn Alfthan

Zodiac with tourists, Svalbard Zodiacs are an essential means of transporting tourists from a cruise ship onto land, or simply "cruising" in the waters around Svalbard. It offers a relatively unintrusive means of approaching wildlife at close quarters...

By Bjorn Alfthan

Berchtesgaden national park, Germany The Berchtesgaden alpine nationalpark in Southern Germany preserves untouched wild forests.

By Peter Prokosch

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