Award winning forest photography
Today we're congratulating one of the world's best photographers Daniel Beltrá, who has often worked with us on forest and climate campaigns. He has just won the new Prince’s Rainforests Project Award at the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards. Most of Daniel’s pictures in the competition were taken while he was working on our campaigns in the Amazon and Indonesian rainforests.
In a video message at the awards night, in Cannes, France - HRH The Prince of Wales, said:
“Photographic imagery can tell a compelling story about the truth of the situation and, the truth is, if we lose the fight against tropical deforestation, then we lose the fight against climate change.”
Daniel, a Spanish photographer now based in Seattle, beat off stiff competition from some of the world’s finest environmental photographers. Upon receiving the award he said:
"This award is a great honor and I am thankful to the Prince's Rainforest Project, Greenpeace and the Indigenous people whose help was invaluable. The greatest reward however would be if the photos alerted world leaders to the urgent need for forest protection. Rainforest's are being destroyed at an incredible rate and under horrible circumstances. This is a catastrophe, not only for those who call the forests home, but for the rest of civilization, which stands to lose both a natural wonder and a natural protection against dangerous climate change. It is imperative that heads of state meeting this December at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, understand the urgency of the situation; I hope my photos can help."
As the winner of this award Daniel will receive funding to photograph the rainforests of the world, and the impacts of deforestation. The resulting images will be exhibited globally, and will form part of a book highlighting the plight of the world’s rainforests. We wish Daniel all the best of luck with this project and look forward to seeing more of his outstanding images!
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Daniel Beltra,this is a good work done it reflect most of the life being destroyed is by us human being from burning of the forest,illegal logging,farm use in an proper way,mining and other human activities leading to climate change.
Today it was my birth day i wanted to celebrate it in unique way by planting trees with my colleges,surprisingly the government through District Officer were planting there trees starting today for a whole week activity we had to join them and we planted more than 1000 trees today, i feel happy for the action we took and it reflects what affects as in our country also affects other parts of the world from your finniest and fantastic photos.
Posted by: Rolland Lusioli | May 13, 2009 7:56 PM