Hossein Forkabrian, a photographer and naturalist, published a video and aerial photos of the large volume of urban and industrial sewage entering the bottom of Lake Maharlo in Fars province, sounding the alarm about the serious threat to life in this precious habitat and wrote: "The health of wetlands is the reflection of the health of soil. In the middle of this black and evening life, as if it were black. The depths of the pollution, but life goes on." These images were recorded at a time when environmental experts and activists have been warning for years about untreated sewage flowing into the Maharlo and endangering the lives of migratory animal and bird species such as flamingos and herons.

Hossein Forkabrian, a photographer and naturalist, published a video and aerial photos of the large volume of urban and industrial sewage entering the bottom of Lake Maharlo in Fars province, sounding the alarm about the serious threat to life in this precious habitat and wrote: "The health of wetlands is the reflection of the health of soil. In the middle of this black and evening life, as if it were black. The depths of the pollution, but life goes on." These images were recorded at a time when environmental experts and activists have been warning for years about untreated sewage flowing into the Maharlo and endangering the lives of migratory animal and bird species such as flamingos and herons.