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Wildlife Foto des Jahres zeigt ein getötetes Nashorn

VonAnnika Iselhorst

Okt 19, 2017 , , , , , ,

Das Londoner Natural History Museum hat das Bild eines gewilderten Spitzmaulnashorns mit abgehackten Hörnern zur Wildlife-Fotografie des Jahres 2017 gekürt. Für das Bild erhielt der Fotograf Brent Stirton am Dienstagabend den Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award, der als eine der wichtigsten Auszeichnungen der Naturfotografie gilt.

Die Jury fand,Stirton habe die Szene „beinahe majestätisch“ dargestellt. Das Foto  mit dem Titel „Memorial to a species“ „sei symbolhaft für eines der verschwenderischen, grausamsten und unnötigsten Verbrechen an der Natur“. Stirton hat das Foto in einem südafrikanischen Wildreservat geschossen – und nach Aussage des Fotografen war dies bei weitem nicht der einzige Schauplatz von Wilderei, dem Stirton auf seiner Tour begegnet ist. Er berichtet von mehr als 30 Fällen während seines Aufenthaltes.

 

Memorial to a speciesâ¨Brent Stirton, South Africaâ¨Grand title winner 2017â¨(Also winner of The Wildlife Photojournalist Award: Story category)â¨The killers were probably from a local community but working to order. Entering the Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve at night, they shot the black rhino bull using a silencer. Working fast, they hacked off the two horns and escaped before being discovered by the reserveâs patrol. The horns would have been sold to a middleman and smuggled out of South Africa, probably via Mozambique, to China or Vietnam. For the reserve, it was grim news, not least because this is where conservationists bred back from near extinction the subspecies that is now the pre-eminent target for poachers, the southern white rhino. For the photographer, the crime scene was one of more than 30 he visited in the course of covering this tragic story.
„memorial to a species“ Brent Stirton/ Wildlife Photographer of the Year

 

The good lifeâ¨Daniël Nelson, The Netherlandsâ¨Grand title winner 2017, Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Also winner of the 15-17 years old category) Daniël met Caco in the forest of Odzala National Park in the Republic of Congo. A threeâhour trek through dense vegetation with skilled trackers led him to where the 16âstrong Neptuno family was feeding and to a close encounter with one of the few habituated groups of western lowland gorillas. In the wet season they favour the plentiful supply of sweet fruit, and here Caco is feasting on a fleshy African breadfruit. Caco is about nine years old and preparing to leave his family. He is putting on muscle, becoming a little too bold and is often found at the fringe of the group. He will soon become a solitary silverback, perhaps teaming up with other males to explore and, with luck, starting his own family in eight to ten yearsâ time. Western lowland gorillas are critically endangered, threatened by illegal hunting for bushmeat (facilitated by logging and mining roads), disease (notably the Ebola virus), habitat loss (to mines and oilâpalm plantations) and the impact of climate change. In his compelling portrait of Caco â relaxed in his surroundings â Daniël captured the inextricable similarity between these wild apes and humans and the importance of the forest on which they depend.
Daniel Nelson/ Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Für das Portrat eines Flachlandgorillas aus der Republick Kongo bekam Daniel Nelson den Jugendpreis Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017.

Von Annika Iselhorst

Ich bin Annika Iselhorst aus der 10ten Klasse. In der Schülerzeitung bin ich seit dem Schuljahr 2017/18. Ich interessiere mich für internationale Politik und Geografie.

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