{"id":928961,"date":"2026-04-30T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/928961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:37:38","slug":"wildlife-photographer-wins-prestigious-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/928961\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife photographer wins prestigious national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By James Bovington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Farsley wildlife photographer Farsley\u2019s Rosie Dutton, the fox is well out of the bag.<\/p>\n<p>Her photo of an adorable young fox has been chosen as the winner of the Mammal Society\u2019s Mammal Photograph of the Year in their people\u2019s choice category.<\/p>\n<p>Rosie said: \u201cI\u2019m grateful to everyone who voted for my photo for two reasons. It is a wonderful picture. However, this support is helping me get closer to achieving my goal of becoming a full-time professional wildlife photographer and videographer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to thank this amazing little fox family who welcomed me observing them in their habitat in local woods in West Leeds. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to this closeness hopefully repeating itself with the babies this year.\u00a0 Everyone benefits from closeness to wildlife in its natural setting. I want to congratulate the photographers who won awards in the different categories as we all work together to showcase the beauty of British wildlife in all its glory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need good news. If we appreciate our wildlife and respect all living things around us, we will all benefit both physically and mentally and cope better with the often crazy dysfunctional world we live in. I\u2019m forever grateful for the wildlife which keeps my heart full.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mammal Society \u2018works for a future where populations thrive as part of healthy and diverse ecosystems benefit people and nature.\u2019\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-17.13.46-616x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201524\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By James Bovington For Farsley wildlife photographer Farsley\u2019s Rosie Dutton, the fox is well out of the bag.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,208169,393,209403,4884,53731,1860,215953,16,15],"class_list":["post-928961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-community-reporters","tag-england","tag-farsley","tag-great-britain","tag-james-bovington","tag-leeds","tag-rosie-dutton","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116494876493333350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}