Plastic Bag adrift in Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia

Fish Skin under a Jetty, Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia

Fish Skin under a Jetty, Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia

Discarded plastic bags and other trash float above a shallow coral reef in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Plastics have become a major pollution problem worldwide.

Blue shark in gill net (rr)

Gray whale: flukes entangled in drift net (Eschrictius robustus). USA, Channel Islands, CA

Blue shark in net. (rr)

Short finned pilot whale (globicephala macrorynchus) Pilot whales defecating after feeding. Canary Islands. (rr)

Short finned pilot whale (globicephala macrorynchus) A defecating pilot whale. Canary Islands. (rr)

Blue shark dorsal caught in net.

Basking sharks in nets (rr)

Sperm Whale plays with Plastic Waste, Physeter catodon, Azores, Atlantic Ocean, Portugal

ecological concept with plastic waste. High resolution photo

Discarded used medical face mask lies on the seabed together with other plastic waste, Becici, Budva region, Montenegro, Europe

Coral reef, reef waste densely overgrown with many different Soft corals (Alcyonacea), stony corals (Scleractinia) and Anthias (Anthiinae), Red Sea, Egypt, Africa

Discarded used medical face mask lies on the seabed together with other plastic waste, Becici, Budva region, Montenegro, Europe

Sicklefin Mobula trapped by Rope, Mobula tarapacana, Azores, Princess Alice Bank, Atlantic Ocean, Portugal

Sicklefin Mobula trapped by Rope, Mobula tarapacana, Azores, Princess Alice Bank, Atlantic Ocean, Portugal

A floating, abandoned net in the ocean, Dominica, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean.

contamination: Purple sea urchin (Sphaerechinus granularis).Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Sunken excavator. Despite not being heavily colonized by marine species, it can be considered a wreck, or an artificial ecosystem of scenic interest for divers. Underwater bottoms of Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) and jellyfishes in floating wastes, Procida Island, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea

Four-colour nudibranch (Godiva quadricolor) on a plastic bottle in Laguna Torrefumo, Mediterranean sea, Italy

Mauve stinger jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) and bottle floating on the surface, Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean sea, Italy

campania, laguna di miseno, compact disc, star of the sea

John Dory and abandoned fishing net, Mediterranean Sea

John Dory and abandoned fishing net, Mediterranean Sea

John Dory and abandoned fishing net, Mediterranean Sea