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Global Vision Award: Freelance photographer Steve Winter:
Freelance photographer Steve Winter received the Global Vision Award, which honors work that explores issues related to the environment, natural history of science. Winter's winning photo essay, which ran in National Geographic magazine, focused on big-game wildlife in the shrinking wilderness of India's Kaziranga National Park. Winter chronicles the efforts of park rangers to protect endangered animals from poachers, especially the Indian one-horned rhinoceros, which had been hunted to near-extinction.
This young tiger triggered one of the photographer's remote cameras. Tigers live in relative safety in Kaziranga National Park because poachers prefer to target the Indian one-horned rhinoceroses that also live there. The rhino's horn, prized for medicinal powers, is valuable on the black market. |