Photographer Kim Preston’s clever images of everyday objects as the sea creatures they endanger are part of a project to raise awareness about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Designs from adventure activist Gabby Wild’s 12 in 12 for 12 conservation project.

About the project:

The name comes from a simple concept: [Gabby Wild] will be wearing 12 animal-inspired and originally-designed outfits in 12 months for 12 endangered species all throughout 2012. Yes, Gabby is only going to wear 12 outfits for an entire year.

Each month, while wearing 1/12 outfits, a unique animal will be featured in GWild media interviews, Gabby Wild blog posts, and here on this site to bring about awareness and funds for its conservation and that of its ecosystem.

Click on the images to see the designers and the animals that inspired them. Many of the designers are former contestants from Project Runway, so I can’t help wondering what the the judges would have to say about these. 

Selected images from Richard Allenby-Pratt’s series Abandoned.

About the project:

This project imagines a future without people, where the relics of our unrealised ambitions are populated by some of the species we have, in the present day, come so close to exterminating. I hope to highlight the fragility of our economic systems and the desperate need for us to live in harmony with the other occupants of our world.

From a terrific photo gallery put together for La Lettre de la Photographie

Not all photojournalistic story has to be about war and destruction. Nor does it has to show decay, decadence and desolation. Some can be about life and it’s celebration, about growth and awakening, about rebirth and fulfilled promises.

Photographers Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott covered one the most surprising ecological events of the last decade. After years of decline and predicted endangerment, the wild salmon of Canada made a completely unsuspected mass return in late 2010. After dropping to their lowest levels on 2009, estimated a 1.5 million individuals, the sockeye salmon made a return to their breading grounds in numbers not seen in more than a century. At 35 million, their numbers not only stupefied observers and researchers, but also completely caught off guard the fishing community. Expected to continue to decline due to pollution, global warming, overfishing, viruses, food shortage, the salmons instead jumped to becoming the largest migration of any aquatic vertebrae on earth.

Takayuki Hori’s intriguing project Oritsunagumono uses x-rays of endangered birds folded origami-style to call attention to the amount of waste discharged into the ocean and its effects on the wildlife. The translation of the title of his project means “folded and connected”. 

Ghosts of Gone Birds is a touring exhibition with a lofty cause.

About the exhibition:

We are raising a creative army for conservation through a series of multimedia exhibitions and events that will breathe artistic life back into extinct birds species. Ghosts Of Gone Birds celebrates their diversity thru paintings & sculpture, talks & poetry, installations & live music. Plus a series of Ghosts stories that shed light on front line conservation work being done around the world to prevent any more birds migrating to gone status.

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Selections from the Guardian photo gallery:

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 highly commended images – in pictures. A selection of the highly commended images that will feature in the WPY exhibition at the Natural History Museum opening on 21 October 2011 before embarking on a national and international tour