The plastic gift

Photographer

Roberto Melotti

Category

Editorial Photography - Environmental

Company

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2024

Country / Region:

Italy

During the courting season, great crested grebes usually exchange gifts, generally algae. In this image a grebe, after diving, resurfaces with a piece of plastic mistaken for succulent algae. Plastic is now everywhere: in the oceans, seas, lakes, rivers...

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