Award of Excellence
Jonne Roriz
Freelance

"Boto Vermelho"

Amazon 11/25/2014 - Underwater portrait of Boto Vermelho, or Amazon River Dolphin in Rio Negro, Amazon Brazil. Wildlife biologists have urges the Brazilian government to implement an immediate ban on a trade that's resultes in a huge decline in river dolphin populations in the past decade. Both the pink and grey river dophins - know as botos and tucuxis - are caught by fishermen to use as bait to catch scavenging catfish called piratingas.