Award of Excellence Paul Nicken National Geographic Magazine
"Svalbard Norway-The High Arctic at Risk"
Award of Excellence Brian Skerry National Geographic Magazine
"Eye Of The Whale"
Award of Excellence Brian Skerry National Geographic Magazine
"First Encounter"
Second Place Mattias Klum National Geographic Magazine
"Virgin rainforest in Borneo cleared for oil palm plantation"
Logged and burned forest. Long Temala, Sarawak, Malaysia. To make way for an oil palm plantation, land in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, is stripped of trees, then burned. Palm oil is a prime export for Malaysia and Indonesia, and global demand is growing.
