{"id":11324,"date":"2020-10-16T09:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T06:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:17","slug":"wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2020-winners-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/10\/16\/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2020-winners-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Photographer of The Year 2020 Winners \u2013 in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winner \u2013 15 to 17 years old, and Young Grand Title winner: The fox that got the goose by Liina Heikkinen, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was on a summer holiday in Helsinki that Liina, then aged 13, heard about a large fox family living in the city suburbs on the island of Lehtisaari. The island has both wooded areas and fox-friendly citizens, and the foxes are relatively unafraid of humans. So Liina spent one long July day, without a hide, watching the two adults and their six large cubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3072.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3072.jpg 960w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3072-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3072-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3072-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3072-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Photograph: Liina Heikkinen\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winner \u2013 Behaviour, Invertebrates: A tale of two wasps by Frank Deschandol, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This remarkable simultaneous framing of a red-banded sand wasp (left) and a cuckoo wasp, about to enter next-door nest holes in Normandy, France. Though these two species don\u2019t regularly interact, Deschandol was gifted a perfectly balanced composition by the insects\u2019 fortuitous flight paths to their nest holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5616.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5616.jpg 960w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5616-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5616-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5616-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5616-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Photograph: Frank Deschandol\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winner \u2013 Animal Portraits: The pose by Mogens Trolle, Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A young male proboscis monkey cocks his head slightly and closes his eyes. Unexpected pale blue eyelids now complement his immaculately groomed auburn hair. He poses for a few seconds as if in meditation. He is a wild visitor to the feeding station at Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary in Sabah, Borneo \u2013 \u2018the most laid-back character,\u2019 says Trolle, \u2018quite unlike anything I\u2019ve ever seen on another monkey\u2019 \u2013 connects us, he hopes, with a fellow primate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3605.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3605.jpg 960w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3605-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3605-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3605-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/3605-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Photograph: Mogens Trolle\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2020\/oct\/14\/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2020-winners-in-pictures\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner \u2013 15 to 17 years old, and Young Grand Title winner: The fox that got the goose by Liina Heikkinen, Finland It was on a summer holiday in Helsinki&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}