Nature Images Awards 2015 – IUCN 2016 Lauréat Bourse

Nature Images Awards 2015 – IUCN 2016 Lauréat Bourse

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Paris, 20 December 2015

For his story on the Tolga Bat Hospital and the flying foxes of the Atherton Tablelands, Jürgen Freund wins the 2016 IUCN Prize or lauréat bourse in the 2015 Terre Sauvage/IUCN’s Nature Images Awards. The prize is a fellowship assignment – to shoot a photo story of his choice species identified from an IUCN’s SOS Initiative. The SOS – Save our Species acts on the information in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This photo story will be published in France 2016, Terre Sauvage Magazine.

Jürgen’s Tolga Bat Hospital story also placed second in the category “Men and Nature” in the Terre Sauvage/IUCN Nature Images Awards 2015. Come join us help the tireless work of Jenny Maclean and the Tolga Bat Hospital volunteers through your donation!

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And an exciting start to our 2016 is Terre Sauvage Magazine January 2016 Special where Juergen’s baby green turtle graces the cover and many other wins finely layed-out in Terre Sauvage’s first issue of the year. A question comes to mind – we wonder if our model, the baby green turtle is healthy and happy, avoiding all things plastic and nasty. We whispered our good wishes to him before he was finally released and swam to his total freedom…

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Terre Sauvage Magazine Cover Jan 2016

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About the Author:

Stella was born in Manila, Philippines in 1965. She studied anthropology but ended up in advertising, producing radio and TV commercials for 7 years. After quitting advertising, she ventured into the freelance world in Manila producing video documentaries for a publishing house, government agencies, non govenmental organisations, and the academe. She moved on to producing books and had a stint at working with foreign production companies visiting Manila. Stella, now based in Cairns, produces photo stories with her husband Jürgen Freund.