2006: The World in Our Hands - Highly Commended
Alessandro Bee (Italy)
Leopard shot
While travelling in Tanzania, Alessandro stopped for a drink in a tourist shop. On the walls were skins. Looking at them were tourists who had only recently been looking at live animals in the parks. It was the leopard that affected Alessandro most. 'Its glass eyes stared straight at me.' Leopards are protected, but the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) allows a quota of 500 leopard skins to be exported from Tanzania as 'personal items'. A tourist buying this skin would therefore have to obtain both an export and an import permit to take it home legally. Too many tourists, though, are ignorant of the laws regulating such trade.
Nikon D70s with 80-200mm f2.8D lens; 1/60 sec at f2.8; flash.
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