3rd place
bronze star award
tommaso rada
portugal 
title
The Last Elephant Standing
In the last 2-3 years a new market emerged in Mozambique: the illegal Ivory Market. The buyers of Ivory are mostly Chinese and Vietnamese but the poachers are from African countries. An elephant tracker can make around 900 dollars for each animal killed; the poachers are now equipped with helicopters registered in the Comoros Island, automatic weapon and have a military training. The rangers of Mr Jacob have just an old Russian rifle from II World War. While the adult are killed for the ivory the young elephant are poached for the meat that is sold in Pemba. The WWF think that in maximum 10 years the elephants will be extinct if nothing change.
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entry description
The forestall concession of Mr. Jacob J. Von Landsberg is in the Querimbas National Park. There are almost no more adult elephants in the Querimbas National Park; only few very young elephant walk in the bushes without guidance because the parents have been killed. The WWF calculate that the number of elephant poached in Mozambique in 2013 is more than 2500; in the last 14 months, 85 elephant were killed in Mr Jacob Reserve.In the last 2-3 years a new market emerged in Mozambique: the illegal Ivory Market. The buyers of Ivory are mostly Chinese and Vietnamese but the poachers are from African countries. An elephant tracker can make around 900 dollars for each animal killed; the poachers are now equipped with helicopters registered in the Comoros Island, automatic weapon and have a military training. The rangers of Mr Jacob have just an old Russian rifle from II World War. While the adult are killed for the ivory the young elephant are poached for the meat that is sold in Pemba. The WWF think that in maximum 10 years the elephants will be extinct if nothing change.
about the photographer
Tommaso Rada is an Italian photographer currently living in the north of Portugal, in Braga. He attended several workshops taught by Alexandra Boulat and Gary Knight, Franco Pagetti, Jan Grarup. His works has been published in several magazines and newspapers such as Financial Time, Der Spiegel, Monocle, Popoli, Popoli e Missioni, Private online edition, Expresso, Helsingin Sanomat, Courrier International, Le Pelerin, Washington Post and Forbes Brazil. He collaborated with Unicef Mozambique, Comunità di Sant’Egidio and Habitat for Humanity Portugal.back to gallery
