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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

Tidal flats at Westerhever, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany The Dutch-German-Danish Wadden Sea attracts millions of tourists, many of them paricularly interested in nature, e.g. bird watchers. The Wadden Sea with its tidal flats, tidal creeks, estuaries, salt marshes, beaches, du...

By Peter Prokosch

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

Tidal flats at Westerhever, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany The Dutch-German-Danish Wadden Sea, with its tidal flats, tidal creeks, estuaries, salt marshes, beaches, dunes and islands is one of the last relatively unspoilt natureareas in Europe. The tidal rhythm determines the pa...

By Peter Prokosch

Tidal flats and windmills, Westerhever, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany The Dutch-German-Danish Wadden Sea, with its tidal flats, tidal creeks, estuaries, salt marshes, beaches, dunes and islands is one of the last relatively unspoilt natureareas in Europe. The tidal rhythm determines the pa...

By Peter Prokosch

Tourists photographing thick-billed guillemots, Alefjelet, Svalbard The Dutch-German-Danish Wadden Sea, with its tidal flats, tidal creeks, estuaries, salt marshes, beaches, dunes and islands is one of the last relatively unspoilt natureareas in Europe. The tidal rhythm determines the pa...

By Peter Prokosch

Footprints of shorebirds and gulls on mud flats, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany The rich food resources, such as mollusks and worms, available on the muddy seafloor of the Wadden Sea during low tide are intensively used by long distant migratory shorebirds to refuel fat reserves.

By Peter Prokosch

Bryozoa, "moss animals", Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Sea coast of Germany. Here the light "leaves" of Bryozoa, "moss animals" are found. They are colonies of s...

By Peter Prokosch

Byozoa, Moss animals, Westerhever, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Sea coast of Germany. Here masses of light "leaves" of Bryozoa, "moss animals" are found. They are colonie...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Bryozoa, "moss animals", Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Sea coast of Germany. Among the different colored algea are light "leaves" of Bryozoa, "moss animals", fou...

By Peter Prokosch

Cold water corals, Lophelia pertusa, beach of Vanna, Troms, Northern Norway With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Norwegian coast. Beside the bivalve Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica, remains of cold water coral reefs...

By Peter Prokosch

Cold water corals, Lophelia pertusa, beach of Vanna, Troms, Northern Norway With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Norwegian coast. Among two species of mussels remains of cold water coral reefs are found here. Lophelia pe...

By Peter Prokosch

Green-, brown-, red algae, and moss animals, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany With wind and waves samples of underwater sea fauna and flora become visible on beaches. Examples from the North Sea coast of Germany. Among the different colored algea are light "leaves" of Bryozoa, "moss animals", fou...

By Peter Prokosch

Kongsfjord, Svalbard Thawing tundra and lakes in the short summer season of the High Arctic. Fauna and Flora mostly has only a window of about two months for rapid reproduction or preparing for a long season of ice and snow.

By Peter Prokosch

Shorebird traces on the tidal flats of the Wadden Sea The rich food resources, such as mollusks and worms, available on the muddy seafloor of the Wadden Sea during low tide are intensively used by long distant migratory shorebirds to refuel fat reserves.

By Peter Prokosch

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