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Department of Zoology

 

This photograph, taken by Tim Cockerill a PhD student in the Department's Insect Ecology Group, was a runner-up in the British Ecological Society Photographic Competition 2010.

 

The photograph was entered in the Ecology and Society category with the following caption: "In a plantation of oil-palm in Sabah, Borneo, the stump of a once-majestic rainforest tree provides a haunting reminder of how the landscape has changed in the name of human consumption.".