In Photos: Whitley Awards for Nature Conservation 2018 Winners
Rahman has since set up an initiative to protect tortoise populations and their surrounding habitats.
Photograph: Scott Trageser/2018 Whitley Award
With his Whitley award, Rahman will work with indigenous Mro people to establish community conservation areas to safeguard forest habitat and curb hunting by training more ex-hunters as ‘parabiologists’ employed to monitor and protect wildlife.
Photograph: Scott Trageser/2018 Whitley Award