Legendary scientist, ethologist, conservationist, and messenger of peace, Jane Goodall has been conferred with the “Legend Award” by Sanctuary Nature Foundation. Retired civil servant, ornithologist, mammalogist, artist, and author Anwaruddin Choudhury was conferred with the prestigious “Lifetime Service Award”. The Sanctuary Wildlife Awards 2021, instituted by Sanctuary
Updated Dec 21, 2020 · 07:48 am A leopard pounces on a Malabar giant squirrel at the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka. The photo won the third prize at the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2020. | Priyanka Rahut Mitra
The nonprofit Sanctuary Nature Foundation, which publishes wildlife and photography magazine
Sanctuary Asia, presented the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards at a virtual ceremony on Saturday.
The first prize went to photographer Pratik Uday Pradhan for capturing a crane fly on a thin twig in Matheran, a hill station near Mumbai. “In the dark of night, Pratik Pradhan watches this little dancer under the steady beam of a torchlight,” the citation for the photograph read. “He adjusts the shutter speed of his camera, and clicks. The cranefly is captured; its body still, its legs a blur of spectral blue waves reminiscent of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.”