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Russian photographer Sergei Gorskov’s photograph of a Siberian tiger hugging a tree in the Russian Far East this year won the top prize in the Nature Photographer of the Year competition at London’s Natural History Museum.
It’s Sergei Gorskov Hug He gave the title to the photo for which he won the top prize in the Nature Photographer of the Year competition at the Natural History Museum in London this year. The picture shows an endangered Siberian tiger hugging the trunk of a huge Manchurian fir to mark it with its urine. Gorskov had to wait more than 11 months to make the recording with the hidden camera. More than 49,000 entries were submitted for this year’s competition, which was announced for the 56th time in 16 categories. Princess Catherine of Cambridge announced the winners.
Roz Kidman Cox, Chairman of the Jury, said: “It is an image like no other, a glimpse of the intimate moment deep within a magical forest. The winter sunlight that filters through the foliage of the centenary pine illuminates the depths of the forest and the fur of the huge tiger as
embraces the tribe in obvious ecstasy and inhales the scent of the tiger in its bark and also leaves its own signal as a message. It is a story told with beautiful colors and textures about the return of the Amur tiger, a symbol of Russian nature, on the brink of extinction. “The Siberian or Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is a subspecies of tigers that lives in Russia’s Far East, Northeast China, and North Korea. It was once native to all of Eurasia to Turkey, but today it lives only in eastern Siberia. In the wild, the number of individuals of the species decreased to 20- 30 in the middle of the last century, thanks to the species protection programs of the last decades.
the population began to grow slowly, now reaching 550. The photo was taken in one of these nature reserves, the Russian Tiger Land National Park. Sergei Gorskov was born in a Siberian village and grew up in the wild, spending most of his life looking through the binoculars of a rifle and not through the lens of the camera, but on a trip to Africa. Meeting a leopard changed her life. Since then, he has been working as a nature photographer, a founding member of the Russian Association of Nature Photographers. Young nature photographer of the year turned Finnish girl Liina Heikkinen with her dramatic photo of a young red fox catching a goose while fiercely protecting her prey from her brothers in a fissure.
The Nature Photographer of the Year award is traditionally presented at a gala dinner at the museum, but due to the coronavirus epidemic, organizers have virtually announced the winners this year, but their popular exhibition will open at the institution on October 16.
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