Impact of Human Waste On Animals
The event that I'm covering is the global decline in biodiversity due to human waste, around one million animals and plant species around the world are being threatened with extinction due to pollution and the terrible ways we throw away our waste, I choose this issue because I believe that it's a huge issue currently because if we keep doing what we're doing without looking out for the animals that also inhabit our planet then many of them will go extinct by the end of the decade due to the trash we produce.
image source: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/?utm
This image sets the scene for a story about our oceans and the animals that inhabit our oceans. The things that aren't in this photo are the trillions of pieces of plastic and waste that are currently in our oceans right now. The framing of the photo is quite effective because it shows an ocean without trash and what it could be if all the waste in our oceans disappeared. The many different animals in the picture show that the planet doesn't only belong to us but also different many animals and plants and if we don't take care of them many of them will face extinction.
This image shows us where the story is going of animals feeling the effect of the trash we produce. The things that aren't in the photo that should be are the other animals suffering from the effects of our waste and how its effecting them and their lives. The framing of the photo is quite effective because it shows a turtle eating a plastic bag which is deadly to them thinking it was a jellyfish, showing the impacts our pollution has on the animals. The turtle eating the plastic bag shows the massive impact our pollution has on biodiversity and how it's harming the animals that we share the planet.
This image shows us a sea turtle struggling to get out of a fishing net that was just thrown into the ocean after the fishermen finished using it, instead of properly disposing of it they threw it into the ocean causing the animal to be caught up in it. The framing of the photo is effective in the message it's trying to convey by showing the impact our pollution has caused. The fishing net trapping a sea turtle shows that human waste is harmful to animals and if we don't take care of them many of them will face extinction.
The detail in this photo helps illustrate the topic of the global decline in biodiversity due to human waste, there are hundreds of plastic wastes in the picture showing its harmful effects on the environment, I don't think the picture is missing anything from it, it tells a clear message about the impact pollution has on animals. The framing of the photo is effective in the message it's trying to convey by showing the impact our pollution has caused. The different type of plastics that can be seen in the picture shows that there are multiple places where these pollutants come from and it's slowly poisoning our oceans.
This picture shows the true picture of the effect that we have on the environment, miles upon miles of trash is floating on the ocean damaging habitats and harming animals that live in those habitats, I don't think the picture is missing anything from it, it tells a clear message about the impact pollution has on animals. The framing of the photo is effective in the message it's trying to convey by showing the impact our pollution has caused.
Conclusion
I chose these images because they are impactful and tell a story about an event that's currently happening right now and is in urgent need of a solution because millions of animals are being threatened with extinction due to human pollution, The image arrangement conveys the story telling because it can be seen to get progressively worse as the image goes on and there should be ethical concerns raising based on the pictures because millions of animals are dying due to human pollutions. The story can greatly change if the images are arranged differently, for example, if arranged backward it can be seen as the ocean healing from the all the population which it's not, telling a completely different story. Visual reporting will always be beneficial because images don’t require you to understand a language to understand the meaning of something, even if someone with zero experience speaking English looked at those photos, they can still understand the harmful impact human waste has on our environments and I feel that it will continue to stick around for the rest of time due to such benefits.
References
Ocean trash: 5.25 trillion pieces and counting, but big questions remain. Retrieved Mar 9, 2025, from https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/ocean-trash-525-trillion-pieces-and-counting-big-questions-remain
UN report: Nature's dangerous decline 'unprecedented'; species extinction rates 'accelerating'. (2019, -05-06). Message posted to https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
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