Need a Laugh? Check Out the Finalists of the 2020 Comedy Wildlife Awards
By Ellyn Kail on October 13, 2020
We all have that friend by Yarin Klein. Brown bears at Kuril Lake, Kamchatka, Russia. Yarin Klein / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020
Sun salutation class by Sue Hollis. Sea lion in the Galapagos Islands. Sue Hollis / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020
Lamentation! by Jacques Poulard. Polar bear in Spitzbergen, Norway. Jacques Poulard / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020
Last month, a new report from the World Wildlife Fund revealed that almost 21,000 monitored populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians had experienced an average decline of 68% since 1970. In Latin America and the Caribbean, that number rose to 94%. Only 25% of our planet’s ice-free land is still considered wilderness; the rest has been significantly altered by humankind.