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La Freccia Gennaio 2020

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© Brian J. Skerry<br />

Gli ecosistemi marini di tutto il mondo sono vittime di grave inquinamento da rifiuti di ogni genere: plastica, rottami,<br />

mercurio e metalli pesanti, fino ai veleni rilasciati da migliaia di bombe inesplose nelle zone di guerra, che giungono a<br />

noi propagandosi attraverso le catene alimentari. Qui un gobbio giallo (Gobiodon okinawae) scruta il mondo sottomarino<br />

attraverso la finestra della sua casa-lattina. Penisola di Izu, Honshu, Giappone/The world’s marine eco-systems are the<br />

victims of severe pollution from waste of all type: plastic, scrap metal, mercury and heavy metals, and also poisons left by<br />

thousands of unexploded bombs in war zones, which reach us by being spread along food chains. Here an Okinawa Goby<br />

fish (Gobiodon okinawae) looks out from the window of his home in a tin can (Izu Peninsula, Honshu, Japan)<br />

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