Special Edition: OPY2024
Issue 39
About this edition: Marvel at all of this year's winning images from Ocean Photographer of the Year in a Special Edition - and extra-long - Behind the Lens / Understand the devastating impacts of Climate Change in Senegal / Join Oceanographic's Storyteller in Residence 2024, Mads St Clair, as she files her first story from Greenland, The lifecycle of ice / Discover how researchers and fishermen in the Mediterranean are trying to combat the invasive Atlantic blue crab / Visit the beautiful St Kilda, where conservationists are trying to better understand the great skua's immune response to different strains of Avian Flu.
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BEHIND THE LENS: Ocean Photographer of the Year Special Edition
In a super-sized special edition of Behind the Lens, we take a look at the winning images from this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year, including the competition’s overall 2024 winner: The Ocean Photographer of the Year.
Open ocean
In the open ocean or ‘high seas’, there are myriad hard-to-find but incredible natural spectacles to witness. In his last feature as Storyteller in Residence, Henley Spiers explores the open ocean and uncovers the groundbreaking path to its protection.
Arriving seas
While most nations around the world are already feeling some impacts of climate change, the country of Senegal is experiencing unprecedented coastal erosion, longer dry spells and heat waves, as well as rising sea levels, threatening livelihoods and displacing entire communities.
The lifecycle of ice
It all begins with a snowflake. A tiny fingerprint of an era tumbling through grey skies, water vapour locked-up into microscopic crystals, before settling on the frozen freshwater mass beneath. They fall, one by one, until under the weight of a trillion snowflakes more it transforms into an ice mass, frozen in time. Until now.
The blue alien
In the Mediterranean Sea, the number of invasive Atlantic blue crabs has exploded in recent years, threatening marine biodiversity and negatively impacting local fishing activities. To combat the invasion, researchers and local fishermen are currently trying to find future-proof ways to manage the increasing population.
Seabird archipelago
St Kilda, an archipelago at the edge of the world, is an internationally important seabird stronghold, and to its core, a seabird archipelago. When the Avian Flu hit St Kilda’s shores, three quarters of Scotland’s great skua population died. Ecologists and conservationists are now trying to better understand the birds’ immune responses to exposure of different strains of Avian Flu to better protect them in the future.
COLUMNISTS:
- Ian Urbina, investigative journalist and director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, explains how the Chinese fishing fleet has managed to increase its control over global fishing, using some controversial practices.
- Hugo Tagholm, ocean campaigner and executive director of Oceana UK, emphasises the importance of rejuvenating and protecting Scottish seas.
- Cal Major, ocean advocate and founder of the charity Seaful, writes about her recent adventure of hiking in the Outer Hebrides that taught her to embrace the uncomfortable side of simplicity to the fullest.
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