Larry Niles Ph.D. is a wildlife and habitat-restoration biologist. I blog about my work and major threats to wildlife and the people who depend on wildlife. I take a lot of photographs and so I like to collect them into galleries that tell a story in pictures.
A vast tidal wetland frames Delaware Bay. Centuries of farming have left the marsh vulnerible to erosion and unproductive.. We took one step to fix it by filling a containment dike to hold mud dredged from a nearby creek.
With large tides and tidal marsh, Delaware Bay should be producing abundant fish. Serial overfishing, marsh destruction, and careless management ruined the fishery and the productive base on which it relied.
Only 14 miles separates the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, yet we saw two very different ecological and economic worlds as we sailed from one to the other.
Like most fishermen of Brazil, those of Maranhao and Para build sturdy boats with the flourish of the South American.
The northern coast of Brazil would thrill any naturalist. Estuaries cut into the coast forming nearly perfect habitat for many animals including shorebirds.
