Nature’s Best Photography’s Conservation Photographer of the Year for this year’s Windland Awards is Cristina Mittermeier. Cristina travels the globe as the President of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), a group that has become a force in furthering environmental and cultural conservation through ethical photography.

Cristina Mittermeier / Nature's Best Photography

The land crab inhabits the Ambodihavibe Bay region in northern Madagascar.

Photographer Cristina Mittermeier said:
“This location in Madagascar is the site of a major protected marine area that was established with the help of Conservation International to study coastal marine ecosystems, because they potentially give us a low-cost option for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”

Photographic information:
Camera: Sony DSLR-A900; focal length 16.0 mm; 1/500 sec at ƒ/9.0; ISO 250

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