{"id":109662,"date":"2025-09-02T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109662\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:43:08","slug":"toxic-tip-sri-lankan-shot-among-worlds-top-wildlife-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109662\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Toxic Tip\u2019 : Sri Lankan shot among world\u2019s top wildlife photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sri Lanka Wildlife photographer Lakshitha Karunarathna\u2019s photograph \u2018Toxic Tip\u2019 is among 100 award-winning photographs selected for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, now in its 61st year at the Natural History Museum in London.<\/p>\n

Lakshitha Karunarathna\u2019s photograph depicting a solitary elephant navigating its way through a waste disposal site in Sri Lanka has been selected from a staggering and record-breaking 60,636 submissions made for the award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lakshitha has been recording the conflict that arises between people and the roughly 7,500 elephants on the island. Unfortunately, this regularly includes those that forage for food among Sri Lanka\u2019s open rubbish dumps.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere is an image chosen as one of just 100 award-winning photographs, selected from a staggering and record-breaking 60,636 submissions to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year now in its 61st year at the Natural History Museum, London \u2014 and I am deeply humbled that my photograph \u201cToxic Tip\u201d is one of them,\u201d the Sri Lankan Wildlife photographer said commenting on the recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith immense honour and pride, I share this work, placed among only 0.16% of all submissions chosen for this year\u2019s awards, shining a light on the devastating consequences of erratic waste disposal and its catastrophic toll on Sri Lanka\u2019s Elephants.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften called the Oscars of Wildlife Photography, #WPY<\/a> has once again reminded the world that photography is not only art, but also a voice for the voiceless. I am truly grateful that Toxic Tip was selected for the official media release \u2014 already carried out today across countless print, broadcast, and digital media outlets reaching every corner of the world \u2014 giving this story a stage far beyond borders.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us move towards a world where waste is managed responsibly, where sustainability is not a choice but a way of life. By protecting our Elephants, we safeguard not only a species, but also the spirit of nature that belongs to us all,\u201d he added, in a statement on social media. (Newswire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Wildlife photographer Lakshitha Karunarathna\u2019s photograph \u2018Toxic Tip\u2019 is among 100 award-winning photographs selected for the Wildlife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-109662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}