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Littered beach, Bali, Indonesia The term marine pollution relates to a range of threats to the marine environment including from land-based sources, oil spills, sewage, invasive species, marine litter, overfishing, destruction of coastal habitats, heav...

By Lawrence Hislop

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangroves in Bali Mangroves grow in saline coastal habitats and play an important ecological role. They have a specialized root system and reproductive cycle that mean that they can thrive in salt water. There are more than 30 species gro...

By Lawrence Hislop

Pollution is detroying the mangroves on coastal Bali Once their root system is established, Mangroves provide the perfect habitat for shrimps, lobsters and oysters. They also slow the water flow around the root area, improving coastal water quality, providing the necessary...

By Lawrence Hislop

Young mangrove plantation on coastal Bali Once their thin root system is established, mangroves provide for a wide variety of plant and animals. Algae and plankton are rife, providing the perfect habitat for shrimp, shellfish, crabs and fish, who feed off them. ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Drifting through a mangrove plantation in Bali Bali Clean & Green program is an initiative aimed at prioritizing Bali's environmental concerns, which have emerged as the tourism and industry sectors have grown in the region. This is to be achieved through the popula...

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangroves in Bali are a vital part of the coastal ecosystem An important function of mangrove forest is to hold back silt water that damages coral reefs. In extreme weather conditions, mangroves provide a physical barrier, absorbing and dissipating the energy from tsunami, flood ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Drifting through a mangrove plantation in Bali The variety of marine life which exists in and around mangroves provides many Indonesians with their livelihood, in fishing, gathering of crustaceans, to timber production. Unfortunately, mangroves here occupy coastal la...

By Lawrence Hislop

Pollution is detroying the mangroves on coastal Bali In Bali the mangroves are experiencing stress due to rising sea levels and a changing climate, or are being replaced by shrimp farms and repercussions of human development such as pollution and silt run-off. All of this ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangroves in Bali are a vital part of the coastal ecosystem The removal of large areas of mangroves for industrial purposes can significantly alter these precious coastal ecosystems. This can have a broader effect on the community, threatening vital clean water sources, tourist i...

By Lawrence Hislop

Young mangrove plantation on coastal Bali In the 1980's a boom in shrimp farming saw a great amount of mangrove forest replaced by farms. As the coastline begun to be chipped away by violent waves, there was some concern that the bridge of land between the North...

By Lawrence Hislop

White-Breasted Comorant (Phalacrocorax lucidus), Lake Naivasha Kenya's Eastern Rift Valley is home to over 400 species of birds, among other animals, including the White-Breasted Comorant, which is the only form of Great Comorant found in sub-Saharan Africa. Inland populations of th...

By Peter Prokosch

Hippoptamus (Hipppotamus Amphibius), Lake Naivasha The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae (the other is the Pygmy Hippopotamus). The hippopot...

By Peter Prokosch

African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus Vocifer), Lake Naivasha The African Fish Eagle can grow to 75cm in length and is a magnificent creature that captures fish or sometimes waterbirds to feed off. They are absent in the Southern parts of the continent, where it is very dry and the...

By Peter Prokosch

Boats in Port, Uumannaq, Greenland Uummannaq is 700km North of the Arctic Circle, just North of Disko Island, Greenland. It experiences three months of the famous Midnight Sun - between May and August. The major industries (fishing and seal hunting) rely ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Litter at the docks, Seychelles The term marine pollution relates to a range of threats to the marine environment including from land-based sources, oil spills, sewage, invasive species, marine litter, overfishing, destruction of coastal habitats, heav...

By Lawrence Hislop

Litter at the docks, Seychelles Increased tourism and expansion of the human population in the Seychelles has led to over-harvesting and exploitation of the natural resources resulting in destruction of habitats for local marine environment.

By Lawrence Hislop

Fishing vessels at port In the Seychelles the fishing industry is thriving, especially Tuna fishing. Commercial fishing is now at a point where it is as strong an industry in the region as tourism.

By Lawrence Hislop

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