Displaced by Palm Oil: Indonesias last Orangutans

• Prize
• Photographer
  Sandra Hoyn, Germany
• Studio
  Sandra Hoyn
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.sandrahoyn.de

Indonesias rainforests are being destroyed for palm oil and
pushing the last wild orangutans to the brink of extinction.
Angelo, a 14-year-old male orangutan found with air gun metal
pellets embedded in his body in Sibolangit district in northern
Sumatra island is getting medical examinations at the center of
the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP).

Indonesia is market leader in global palm oil production. Palm
oil is used for food, cosmetics and as biofuel. Palm oil
plantations are replacing four-fifths of the rainforest in
Indonesia.

• Biography
  Sandra Hoyn (b. 1976) is an independent photojournalist based in Hamburg, Germany. She studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, graduating in 2005. She started working for magazines, NGOs and on her personal photo projects, focusing on social, environmental and human rights issues.
• Awards
  2017 she received the first prize of the Sony World Photography Awards in category daily life and POYi – Pictures of the Year International third place category portrait. In 2016 she received the Magnum Photography Award in category photojournalism, 2015 World Press Photo Award third prize, category nature singles.