2020 July Highlights Gallery

RioTinto tidal area and saltmarshes, with healthy vegetation

RioTinto tidal area and saltmarshes, with healthy vegetation and red silt containing pyrite (an iron mineral common in sediments). The silt is deposited by constant tidal flooding. This image was taken close to a phosphogypsum pond full of industrial waste, which is leaking toxic, radioactive water into the estuary. This part of the estuary is unpolluted

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Two Black woodpeckers (Dryocopus martius) males on tree trunk in territorial dispute

Two Black woodpeckers (Dryocopus martius) males on tree trunk in territorial dispute, Peerdsbos, Braschaat, Belgium. April

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Saturniid moth larva (Aurivillius triramis) close up of body segments

Saturniid moth larva (Aurivillius triramis) close up of body segments, Laraganga Mole National Park, Ghana, Africa

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