@BBC News: Run by the Mangrove Action Project, the competition – now in its ninth year – aims to show the relationships between wildlife, coastal communities and mangrove forests, as well as the fragility of these unique ecosystems, both above and below the waterline.
See the winner, and more images on the BBC website
Featured image – runner up, Jason Florio’s, images from The Gambia, West Africa, of womens collecting oysters on a tributary of the River Gambia, and their conservation project with TRY Oyster Women’s Association.
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Related feature: The Guardian: Stewards of the forest: the pioneering women’s collective harvesting the Gambia’s oysters
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