Photography for conservation

Javier Murcia · Issue 135, Nov/Dec 2023 · pp. 43–45

Products mentioned: Nikon Z7II, Marelux housing, Inon flash

Planet Earth is made up mostly of water. Many times you have heard that we really should have called our planet Water, and not Earth, because almost three quarters of it are oceans, seas and other masses of water (70% of the total surface). Each body of water, whether fresh or salty, has characteristics that define it in one way or another. A river presents a different fauna depending on the section where we are. Its fish fauna, for example, is adapted to the intermittent flow of river water, depending on the season of the year. The same thing happens with the seas and oceans or any body of water. Seas and oceans, rivers and lakes have been suffering devastating anthropogenic pressure in recent years. Seas of plastic cover thousands of square kilometers of our oceans; Drifting nets are annihilating, like death traps, countless marine creatures such as fish, birds and sea turtles or cetac…