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First Place
Serena de Sanctis
Freelance
"Jungle tears"

Second Place
Jordi Pizarro Torrell
Freelance
"Untitled"

Third Place
Mark Kelley
Freelance
"Reigning Tongass Rainforest"

Award of Excellence
Jason Edwards

National Geographic magazine
"Devil in the Night"

Award of Excellence
Stuart Palley
Freelance
"El Portal Fire"

Award of Excellence
Jonne Roriz
Freelance
"Boto Vermelho"

 

Award of Excellence
Jonne Roriz
Freelance


"Boto Vermelho"

Amazon 11/25/2014 - Underwater portrait of Boto Vermelho, or Amazon River Dolphin in Rio Negro, Amazon Brazil. Wildlife biologists have urges the Brazilian government to implement an immediate ban on a trade that's resultes in a huge decline in river dolphin populations in the past decade. Both the pink and grey river dophins - know as botos and tucuxis - are caught by fishermen to use as bait to catch scavenging catfish called piratingas.

 

 

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