{"id":80367,"date":"2025-10-15T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80367\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:25:09","slug":"a-closer-look-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80367\/","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hussain Aga Khan&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Hussain Aga Khan (Switzerland) frames a gracefully agile Amazon river dolphin, also known as a boto.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain\u2019s portrait shows a wild boto near a pontoon along the Rio Negro river in Manaus, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Here tourists can pay to feed the animals. Wildlife tourism may help boost conservation interest, but it can cause harm if the botos become reliant on being fed.<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil\u2019s Mamirau\u00e1 Reserve, the boto population declined by 70% in the 22 years to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Botos are also used as bait for the vulture catfish, which is in demand.<\/p>\n<p>To limit this, the Brazilian government renewed its fishing ban on vulture catfish in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hussain Aga Khan&#8217;s Image Hussain Aga Khan (Switzerland) frames a gracefully agile Amazon river dolphin, also known as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,5924,111,139,69,61399,61398,61396,61397,61395],"class_list":["post-80367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-nature-photography","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}