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2010 Photographic Competition
Celebrating Ecology
The overall winner received £750 and the overall runner-up received £250. The Student award winner received £100. Winning entries for each category are exhibited at the BES Annual Meeting, and published in the December 2009 BES Bulletin.
We would also like to thank the Oxford University Press for kindly sponsoring £40 worth of book vouchers to each winning entry that did not receive the overall, overall runner-up or student prize.
Overall Winner and winner of the "Ecosystems and Communities" category.
African white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) squabble for dominance over a dead buffalo (Syncerus caffer).
Photo Credit: Ute Bradter
Overall Runner Up and Winner of the "Ecology and Society" Category
Coot Fulica atra family scene in urban setting.
Photo Credit: Dr Silviu Petrovan
Runner up entry for the "Ecosystems and Communities" Category
The predatory Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) and fire coral (Millepora sp.), Red Sea, Egypt. Taken on a night-dive, this is a close-up of the ferocious predatory Crown-of-thorns starfish moving across the reef on the prowl. It consumes coral and brittle stars by extruding its stomach onto the prey and releasing digestive enzymes. Much controversy surrounds this starfish and its pivotal role in reef ecosystems. "Plagues" of starfish have decimated great expanses of coral reef. Ecologically this may be beneficial by maintaining coral biodiversity. However, the cause of these outbreaks is still under debate, some believe it is a natural cycle, whilst others suggest the population booms are increasing and caused by anthropogenic activities.
Photo credit: Ms Cheryl Mills
Runner Up of the "Ecology and Society" category
In a plantation of oil-palm in Sabah, Borneo, the stump of a once-majestic rainforest tree provides a haunting reminder of how the landscape has changed in the name of human consumption.
Photo credit: Tim Cockerill
Winner of the "Whole Organisms and Population" category
A rare glimpse into the life of the Indian leopard, Panthera pardus fusca, with a mother and her almost fully grown cub relaxing in a tree to escape the midday heat. Taken in Bandipur National Park, South India.
Photo credit: Miss Nisha Owen
The Runner up entry for the "Whole Organisms and Population" category
A potter wasp on her way of making home for her nestlings
Photo credit: Mr Allesh Sinu
Winner of the "Ecology in Action" category
Puffin (Fratercula arctica) being released after being colour ringed for population monitoring, Fair Isle, UK.
Photo credit: Adam Seward
Runner up entry for the "Ecology in Action" category
These are photographs of children from Moi Avenue Primary School on a field exercise in Wajee Nature Camp collecting insects by use of sweep nets and later on studying and discussing them. This was a BES funded project titled ?Ecology made Simple? whose main goal was to make science learning informative, enjoyable and to give the children an opportunity to discover, explore and be inspired by nature through outside classroom teaching and thus improving their science performance in exams. This also changed their perception of finding science as a boring subject.
Photo Credit: Ms Scolastic Ndegwa
Winner of the "Student" category
Pair of wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe) in May snow shower, Fair Isle, UK.
Photo Credit: Adam Seward
Runner up entry for the "Student" category
Mauve stinger jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca in shallow water.
Photo Credit: Emma Birdsey
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