Indian teen wins global award for clicking crocs

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Indian Teen Wins Global Award For Clicking Crocs. Young Wildlife Pho�to��g�rapher of The Year Award. A 14-year-old Indian boy, who camped out overnight on the banks of the Chambal river in Madhya Pradesh to click the winning shot of a crocodile, has bagged this year’s ‘Young Wildlife Pho�to��g�rapher of the Year Award’.

London: A 14-year-old Indian boy, who camped out overnight on the banks of the Chambal river in Madhya Pradesh to click the winning shot of a crocodile, has bagged this year’s ‘Young Wildlife Pho­to­­g­rapher of the Year Award’.

Udayan Rao Pawar shot the fresh water crocodile or gharial with hatchlings on its head by creeping up on the nestling colony.

“When the dawn broke I hid myself behind a rock, and when the morning light came I took those images,” Udayan Rao Pawar explained.

“I could hear them making little grunting sounds. Very soon a large female surfaced near the shore. Some of the hatchlings swam to her and climbed onto her head. Perhaps it made them feel safe,” he added.

Despite conservation efforts, the fresh water gharial is on the verge of extinction with an estimated 200 mating pairs remaining as a result of illegal sand-mining and fishing.

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