The shot is magnificent.
And so symbolic that it earned its author, the British photographer Nima Sarikhani, a few days ago to win the public prize for the latest Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the annual competition organized by the Natural History Museum of London .
We see in this image, called “Ice Bed”, (“ice bed” in French), a polar bear lying on a piece of ice floe, taking a short nap on this makeshift bed which seems threatened by the immensity ocean that surrounds it.
Like its approximately 20,000 congeners who live around the North Pole on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, this polar bear, which the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) classifies as a “vulnerable” species and to which is devoted, this Tuesday, February 27, an international day, must today fight against a triple threat: the reduction of its living area due to the melting of the sea ice, overhunting and the effects of atmospheric pollution.
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