{"id":125706,"date":"2025-10-16T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125706\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:33:22","slug":"a-closer-look-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125706\/","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":123970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-125706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}