Silver in Press/Feature Story / 2026 / Press / Feature Story

• Prize
  Silver in Press/Feature Story
• Photographer
  Pascal Dumas, New Caledonia
• Date of Photograph
  Between 01/05/2024 and 08/07/2025

IRD researchers embedded in New Caledonia's ecosystems. A drone pilot knee-deep in mangrove water; a geospatial engineer mapping tidal flats; a young biologist and her molluscs; an anthropologist specialising in the politics of nickel; a botanist beneath the canopy of an island forest; a specialist cataloguing species in the herbarium; a marine mammal ecologist back from the sea; a scientist-diver emerging from the lagoon. Eight field portraits telling the story of research from the edge of the world, in an island territory at the frontline of climate change. Science rooted in landscape.