20 Winning Photos Of The Nature Conservancy Photo Contest 2021

#7 People And Nature, First Place: Alain Schroeder, Belgium
Orangutans in Indonesia are under threat from the ongoing depletion of the rainforest due to palm oil plantations, logging, mining, hunting. This photograph shows a team of rescue workers preparing Brenda, a female orangutan who is estimated to be three months old as she still has no teeth, for surgery.

Photograph: Alain Schroeder
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