World Press 2014: The Plight of the Fennec Fox

Kathy Moran, Senior Editor, Natural History

Bruno D’Amicis’ photograph of the fennec fox is all about passion, the drive to keep going after a story until you feel you’ve covered every angle.   When Bruno first shared his fox photographs with me, he had a lovely set of images that showed fennecs in their desert environment.   Camera trap photographs of foxes by moonlight, females with cubs, young animals at play gave no hint of the conservation issues impacting the species. Bruno had spent weeks tracking the foxes.  When his resources were exhausted, he had to return home.   He sent me the photographs in hope of securing funding to go back to Tunisia for additional work.  When I asked him what more he

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