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Photos of SELC's Top Ten 2010 Endangered Places available for download for media use (below). Photographers must be credited for each use. Please call 434-977-4090 with any questions.
- Chesapeake Bay, VA ©Dwight Dyke
Pollution from air, land, and water is creating oxygen-starved “dead zones” in the bay.
- Ocoee Region, TN ©Nye Simmons
Unnecessary highway proposals threaten one of the South’s scenic gems and taxpayers’ wallets.
- VA and TN Mountains ©Robert Llewellyn
Mountaintop removal coal mining is wreaking havoc on streams, forests, and local communities.
- Catawba-Wateree Basin, NC/SC ©Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, J. Wes Bobbitt; Flight by SouthWings
Restricted flows would limit the river’s ability to meet the needs of people and wildlife.
- Georgia’s Blackwater Rivers ©Michele McBride
Mercury from a new power plant could further pollute the Ogeechee and other rivers.
- South Carolina’s Freshwater Wetlands ©Tom Blagden
More wetlands will disappear if erroneous Corps decisions are left unchallenged.
- Cape Fear Wetlands, NC ©Cape Fear Riverkeeper
A proposed cement plant would destroy 1,000 acres of wetlands and a popular recreation area.
- Right Whale Calving Waters, GA ©NOAA
A proposed Navy training range threatens one of the most endangered whale species on Earth.
- Black Warrior River, AL ©Nelson Brooke
New mines would discharge pollution into the Black Warrior and its tributaries, including the Locust Fork.
- Roanoke and Dan River Basins ©Dwight Dyke
Uranium mining could harm drinking water supplies for VA Beach and other VA and NC communities.
