Iberian lynx

• Prize
  Bronze in Nature/Wildlife
• Photographer
  Csaba Tokolyi, Hungary
• Date of Photograph
  2018. 12. 12.
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.csabatokolyi.com

A highly endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) taking a break at a clearing in the forest near Adamuz, Spain. With only 500 or so individuals living in the wild, the Iberian lynx is categorised as EN-endangered in the IUCN Red List. Conservation efforts helped the species from extinction in the 2000's when only around a 100 animals roamed the Iberian peninsula.

• Biography
  Cheers from Budapest, Hungary. During the day (and sometimes a little longer) I work as an art director at an advertising agency. I picked up photography as a hobby during school years, and remained a casual snapper for years. Then I started diving, and my life changed in many ways. My passion for nature photography started underwater. And after a few years, I started to follow the Darwinian path of evolution and ventured out of the water into the realm of land based nature photography...