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2023 Science
First Place
Elephant keeper Kiapi Lakupanai plays with two calves at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, Samburu, Kenya on October 12, 2022. Reteti Elephant Sanctuary has been overwhelmed with rescue operations and the influx of orphaned and abandoned calves due to the current drought in Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy where they operate. Parched lands and dry wells cover the terrain leading to many baby elephants to lose their exhausted mothers, or get abandoned or lost. East Africa's worst drought in forty years is starving Kenya's famed wildlife of usual food and water sources while increasing human-wildlife conflict. The severe drought has not only put millions of people on the brink of starvation, but it is also threatening the rich biodiversity in the region.
Second Place
A team of conservationists and park rangers guides one of the endangered black rhinos in a boma after it was sedated to load it into a transport crate at the Manketti reserve, owned by Exxaro, South Africa’s largest coal producer that’s also involved in animal conservation in Lephalale, South Africa, Monday, August 22, 2022.
Third Place
January 31, 2022 A house that was built one hundred feet from the water, currently sits thirty feet from shore in Long Island, New York. This is the result of sea level rise and coastal erosion. While precise environmental changes are unpredictable, there is no doubt the warming climate will change Long Island and other coastal areas in the coming years and decades.
Honorable Mention
Drone aerial view shows the irregular city growth in a water catchment area on the banks of the Billings dam, in Sao Paulo, Brazil June 2, 2022. The expansion of irregular constructions in areas of springs that supply Sao Paulo region contributed to a record number of fines for illegal deforestation in the city and neighboring municipalities in 2021. Data from the Secretariat of Infrastructure and Environment of the State show that there was a 49% increase compared to 2020. A good part of the infractions occurred in protected forest areas near the Billings dam, which supply neighborhoods in the South Zone of São Paulo. State legislation restricts the construction of houses in the vicinity of springs, which are sources of water used in public supply.