I think that the bigger problem for harp seals is the loss of sea ice due to global warming.
- Brian Skerry
In this TED talk, National Geographic photojournalist Brian Skerry illustrates, with his underwater photography, the ocean’s natural glory, but he also shows the horror that anthropogenic activities have brought onto oceans around the world. For example, the true unseen costs of a shrimp dinner might be hundreds of pounds of bycatch, which are animals and plants that are caught with the targeted species, by fishermen, but these animals and plants have no commercial value. Bycatch is are often killed during the fishing process and thrown back into the sea as trash.
One of Brian Skerry’s most celebrated underwater images is this diver with a Southern right whale. You can see more of Brian Skerry’s right whale images in National Geographic Magazine’s October issue or here and here.
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