2012: The Wildlife Photojournalist Award - Runner-up
Brent Stirton (South Africa)
Deadly Medicine
This is a tragic story about a growing fashion for consuming rhino horn that now threatens the extinction of rhinos. Their horns, mere keratin, the substance of fingernails, is now more valuable than gold on the Asian black market.
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