Fish rescue wins New Scientist Editors Award in the picture of the land 2025

Restore a way in life is in the center of this Vivian Wan’s picture, about a series winning New Scientist Editors Award at The photo photo 2025 competition.

It shows members of the ugly community working with biologists and technicians to build rotary screw trinity traps, in Willow Creek, Cigamentia. The team uses fish traps to check for animals health and study their migration patterns.

Klamath basin is at the center of the ugly life, with lots of water that gives large chinero trout (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha), which holds deep culture and spiritual meaning to the community. But two centuries of the regional colonization have moved to the yell and removes local resources by mining, logging in and the building of dams.

Climate change and transferred to the river water further pushes the population of the salmon in the room. In 2002, new irrigation policies resulted in thousands of soldiers in the Chinook in Klamath River to die. This further impetus in a decade of long fights to get the river dams. Last year, the last dam on the river was broken.

For Wan, the purpose is to explore how native communities lead war for environmental justice. “I hope spectators have come out of a deep respect for strength, culture and fight with the ugly and fight to protect Klamath basin,” he said.

Below, Hunter Matz, a technician of the shishers in the uprising, a monitor that shows the raised scales of progress from fishing and natural cause. Data helps to set limits of catching and reaching forecast purposes – the number of salmon to enter a specified migration and abundance of salmon population.

Here, Mattz holds a need-thin tag, contributing to the Fish-monitoring research program.

Mattz in charge of the net harvest project. His paper involves navigating a more than 70-kilometer traveling from the mouth of the Pacific Ocean to the Estuary, the half of Klamath basin and last blue Creek, California. This work is important in collecting data in fish species covered by nets and lines of local residents. The recorded data has helped ensure grants for efforts to preserve the sea in the area of ​​Klamath.

All the winners in the land photograph is selected in a panel including New ScientistPlantation Pattern, Tim Boddy, and head of the editorial video, David’s stock. View the picture of the ground 2025 performance of London Geographical Society Society in London until 20 August, before it crosses the UK.