TEAM researchers set a camera trap in Uganda. (© Benjamin Drummond)
For TEAM researchers in 15 countries from Malaysia to Madagascar, setting up camera traps isn’t always an easy feat. Just reaching the desired site may require days of travel and facing sudden rainstorms, biting insects, landslides and car or boat trouble along the way. When the researchers make their way back to the site 30 days later to collect the memory cards from the cameras, they sometimes find the cameras have stopped working due to extreme weather events or damage by humans or animals. (Learn more by following TEAM scientist Badru Mugerwa through the Ugandan forest in the short film below.)
Luckily, all this hard work has a great reward: remarkable photos that often capture rare animals seldom seen by human eyes.
TEAM recently held a photo contest among its 17 field sites spread out across the tropics in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Here are the winners in each of the four categories:
Best overall: A jaguar grabs a quick rodent snack in Brazil’s Caxuianã National Forest.
Photo courtesy of Conservation International and the TEAM Network
Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution and the TEAM Network
Photo courtesy of Conservation International and the TEAM Network
Photo courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the TEAM Network
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