In its 56th year, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year festival has released a variety of “highly recommended” photographs in preview of the annual nature photography exhibition and animal photojournalism in the world.
The oldest festival of its kind in the world, organized through the Natural History Museum in London, selects a hundred photographs of thousands sent through amateur and professional photographers from around the world to provide stories and species and challenge our position in the field of herbs.and our duty to protect and inspire a long track record of defending the planet.
The winners, in addition to the prestigious Grand Title winners, will be announced on October 13.For the first time, the rite of prizes will take place from the iconic Hintze Hall of the Natural History Museum.
The exhibition will be open from October 16, 2020 to Sunday, June 6, 2021 – WPY56.
This year’s winning images were chosen for their creativity, originality and technical excellence from more than 50,000 programs in 86 countries through a foreign panel of industry experts.
An endangered primate, endangered habitats and possums are some of the desirable and challenging photographs included in the recently announced photographs.
Among them is also the symbol of Arshdeep Singh, 13, of a douc, a critically endangered primate surrounded by the lush green and green surroundings and now a visual contact with the viewer.
Charlie Hamilton James’ symbol of the state of a remote tree amid the ferocious flames of a forest chimney testifies that humans have an effect on the Amazon rainforest and the damage done to the herb world.
“Several of my favorite photographs of the festival, the ones I can look at over and over again, are among the recommended photos,” explained Roz Kidman Cox, president of the jury.”But then, all the recommended photographs are winning, being in the most sensible one hundred awarded through the jury among more than 49,000.”
The diversity of themes and styles this year “memorable”, according to the jury. “What stands out in particular are the symbols of young photographers, the next generation of symbol-makers with a passion for the world of herbs.”
The contest, which enjoys an exceptional reputation for attracting the world’s most productive photographers, herbalists and young photographers, “has never noticed such an important time for the world’s audience to recommit to the herbal world, and in what better way than this source of inspiration and provocation, said Dr. Tim Littlewood, Executive Director of Science at the Natural History Museum and a member of the jury.
“The unique ability of photography to arouse verbal exchange and interest is special.We hope this year’s exhibition will be an opportunity for the public to pause, reflect and motivate a pastime to protect the herb world.”
Following the opening of the flagship exhibition at the Museum of Natural History, the photographs will be featured on a British and foreign tour, bringing the good looks and fragility of herbs globally to millions of people.
When his father planned a business in Vietnam, the young photographer in the photo above did some studies on wildlife online.It was after reading about the endangered red-tailed douc langur that he asked his father to take him.Son Tra Nature Reserve, Vietnam’s last coastal rainforest and a langur stronger.
Primates, found only in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, are threatened by habitat loss, hunting, and trade. Duc langurs eat basically leaves, seeds, flowers and culmination and live in the canopy, a challenge for a photographer.
For several years, the photographer has observed hippos at Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve, here in a remnant of the drought-affected Mara River.Hippos spend the day submerged to maintain a constant temperature and delicate skin outside the sun, and at dusk they go out to graze on the floodplains.
Throughout their diversity in sub-Saharan Africa, hippos are vulnerable to the combined effects of increased water extraction and climate change.They are critical engineers of grasslands and aquatic ecosystems, and their faeces supply nutrients for fish, algae and insects.
But when rivers dry up, a lot of manure depletes oxygen and kills aquatic life.
A giant wandering spider, with crooked black tusks that tilt its blysized, scratched mouth portions, pierces the egg of a giant crystal frog, injects digestive juices and then sucks its liquefied prey.
The photographer had walked for hours in the dark and heavy rains to triumph in the stream of the Manduriacu reserve in northwestern Ecuador, where he hoped to locate glass frogs mating.
But his praise turned out to be photographing a habit he had rarely seen: a street spider with a leg length of 8 centimeters (three inches) devouring frog eggs.
It is believed that the 11 known species of street spiders are key predators of these small translucent amphibians, which take refuge in the jungle plants during the day and hunt at night, armed with delicate hair, the spider may encounter the vibrations transmitted.through the leaves and can also pick up sounds like the mating cries of amphibians.
Its eight-eyed battery, two of which are giant at the top of the head, serves other purposes and is very sensitive to low softness, but are smaller than in spiders actively chasing prey.One by one, for more than an hour, the spider ate the eggs.
As unlikely as it may seem, this exhibition illustrates a conservation achievement of South Africa.It represents the relatively smallest number of seabird deaths: heretic albatross, yellow-nosed albatross (a longline hook still at its beak) and white chin petrels trapped in 2017 in longlines caught by Japanese tuna vessels off the coast of South Africa.
The main line of a boat can get bigger for more than 50 miles, with thousands of baited hooks. When small seabirds dive in and bring baited hooks to the surface, petrels and albatross check to sweep all their catch, cling and drown.
In recent years, the most respectful fishing practices with seabirds: the laying of lines after dusk, the heavier hooks flowing faster that drag scarecrow lines have particularly reduced the annual accidental catch of birds off the coast of South Africa, which are now counted in the charges rather than tens of thousands.
But each and every year, more than 300,000 seabirds, adding 100,000 albatross, still die elsewhere only through longlines.
A sharp trader of frugivorous bats, surrounded by his other products: pythons to his right, with bush rats sliced with bamboo underneath at Tomohon Market in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Local hunters and investors bring mammals and wild reptiles to sell here, such as cats and domestic dogs, some dead, some alive, to kill and sacrifice them on the spot.
Quentin observes the truth of the wild animal meat trade, with wild animals in poor conditions kept alive, tied to ropes or huthered in cages, waiting for carnage.Animals.
The sale of wild animal meat here, which at some point included that of endangered primates, has put Tomohon, listed as an “extreme” food market, on the tourist route.
Since the arrival of Covid-19, suspected of coming from a food market in China, calls have been made to ban the sale and slaughter of live wild animals in Indonesia, when many species are confined in combination in inhumane and unsanitary situations and then slaughtered.on the same surfaces, there is a great opportunity for viruses to cross species barriers.
But being informal, these markets are difficult to regulate.However, the United Nations warned that the maximum number of emerging infectious diseases come from nature and that “as we continue to relentlessly invade nature and degrade ecosystems, we are putting human fitness at risk.”
At the very least, scientists are calling for the separation of wild animals from farm animals in markets, as well as the suppression of the world’s large illegal trade.
This vast expanse, a boreal forest of modeled forms, is only one segment of the Mildred Lake tar mine, one of the many tar mines in the region that together form the third largest oil reserve in the world.
Low-quality tar oil, bitumen, is received by extracting the shallow layer of sand, clay and bitumen into the open slash, and then extracting the bitumen processes, which consumes a lot of energy and is potentially chemically polluting.
To show the scale of operations, Garth rented a plane and flew over the desolate landscape, opting for the mild night for contrast and atmosphere.Foreground trucks are the height of a two-story space but are overshadowed by the open-pit giants them.
The terraced stripes lead to a refinery covered with huge piles of yellow sulfur and the Athabasca River beyond.
Around the well there are relave ponds, which involve manure so poisonous that you will have to prevent the birds from touching there.Currently, most bitumen is shipped, diluted, through pipelines to refineries in the United States for processing.
The environmental effect on the entire operation is threefold.
First, mines are created by logging the boreal forest, an ecosystem and a vital terrestrial carbon sink.
Second, the low-quality oil extraction procedure consumes a lot of energy and, according to the Aboriginal peoples of the first nations in the region, continues to pollute.
Third, fully exploiting this fuel source from intensive emissions will result in the release of massive amounts of carbon that weather scientists will disproportionately contribute to global emissions and make it highly unlikely that global warming will remain below 2 degrees Celsius and prevent catastrophic climate change.
Darkness falls on the remote coral atoll of Fakarava in French Polynesia and molluscs begin to move, these giants of up to six inches through the base spend the day hiding in cracks between corals, on the outer edges of the reef, resistant to strong currents and At night, emerge to graze on the sidewalks of algae and coral debris.
Its thick cone-shaped shells, inlaid with algae, were so sought after to make mother-of-pearl buttons, jewelry and other crafts that the species was once the most publicized invertebrate in the world.This has led to its widespread decline, and is now the concentrate of conservation efforts.
The cruiser behind these slow herbivores is one of the reef’s main predators: a grey reef shark, about 6 and a half feet long, capable of reaching speeds of approximately 30 miles consistent with the hour and in a position for a night of hunting.detects prey (mainly reefy fish) with their senses arranged and hunts in herds.
Using a large angle, Laurent made nightlife more acute by stirring the reef’s reflections, contrasting the foreground angular shells with the sublime predator behind it.
Chile’s Araucanía region owes its call to its Araucaria trees, in this case the state opposes a southern beech forest background last fall.
The photographer walked for hours to a ridge overlooking the forest and waited for the right light, after sunset, to highlight the colors.
The logs shone like pins scattered throughout the landscape, and he made up the composition to create the feeling that the overall total was covered with this forest fabric.
Originally from central and southern Chile and western Argentina, this species of Araucaria brought to Europe in the late eighteenth century, where it was cultivated as curiosity, much appreciated for its unique appearance, with vertical spiny leaves around the angular branches and trunk.the tree has acquired the English name “mono puzzle”.
In its herbal habitat, the Araucaria bureaucracy vast forests, in harmony with the southern bee and, infrequently, in natural stands on volcanic slopes.
The ecology of these regions is formed through dramatic disturbances, adding volcanic eruptions and chimneys.Araucaria is resistant to chimneys with a thick, protective bark and specially adapted buds, while the pioneering southern bee regenerates vigorously after chimneys.
In such environments, Araucaria can succeed in 164 feet, with branches limited to the most sensitive of the tree to succeed in peaceful above the broad leaf and can live more than 1000 years.
I am an autonomous journalist from Colombo-Luxembourg, a hard-boiled traveller founded in the world’s only Grand Duchy.I’m writing a column on European issues
I am an autonomous journalist from Colombo-Luxembourg, a hard-boiled traveller founded in the world’s only Grand Duchy.I am writing a column on European affairs for the editorial page of El Tiempo, Colombia’s main newspaper.I’ve been a Newsweek columnist, and I’ve written for, among others, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and Toronto Globe.