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Witness by Emily Garthwaite, UK. Highly commended, Wildlife Photojournalist Award: Single Image. “One of several sun bears kept behind the scenes at a zoo in Sumatra, Indonesia, in appalling conditions. Sun bears are the world’s smallest bears, now critically endangered. In the lowland forests of Southeast Asia, they spend much of their time in trees, eating fruit and small animals, using their claws to prise open rotten wood in search of grubs. They are threatened by rampant deforestation and the demand for their bile and organs for traditional Chinese medicine”. (Photo by Emily Garthwaite/2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year)
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