Cartoons make climate change a laughing matter
"Bitingly satirical, outrageously funny or exceedingly bitter." Some 150 cartoonists from 50 countries entered the Ken Sprague Fund cartoon competition. If you think you shouldn't make light of environmental degradation, look away now ...
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First prize: Coat Star, by Mikhail Zlatovsky, Russia. Judges felt the cartoon "captured the shabbiness and sleazy way our planet is being devastated".
Photograph: Mikhail Zlatovsky/PR
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Second place: Butterflies, by Constantin Ciosu, Romania.
Photograph: Constantin Ciosu/PR
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Third place: The Hand, by Tawan Chuntraskawvong, Thailand
Photograph: Tawan Chuntraskawvong/PR
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Shortlisted: Snowman, by Bernard Bouton, France
Photograph: Bernard Bouton/PR
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Cartumagua, by Aluir Amancia, Brazil
Photograph: Aluir Amancia/PR
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Welcome to Amazonia, by Igor Kondenko, Ukraine
Photograph: Igor Kondenko/PR
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By Vladimir Kazanevsky, Ukraine
Photograph: Kazanevsky/PR
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Ilya Katz, Israel
Photograph: Ilya Katz/PR
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Jakali Nokandeh, Iran
Photograph: Jakali Nokandeh/PR
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Blind date, Stefano Gamboni, Italy
Photograph: Stefano Gamboni/PR
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Wang Rui Sheng, China
Photograph: Wang Rui Sheng/PR
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Mahmood Nazari, Iran
Photograph: Mahmood Nazari/PR
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Suicide, by Vassily Aleksandrov, Russia
Photograph: Vassily Aleksandrov/PR
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Valentin Druzkinin, Russia
Photograph: Valentin Druzkinin/PR
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Wolfgang Leder, Germany
Photograph: Wolfgang Leder/PR
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Branko Ilic, Croatia
Photograph: Branko Ilic/PR
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Indifference, Igor Kondenko, Ukraine
Photograph: Igor Kondenko/PR
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Alpha and Omega, by S Ashmarin, Russia
Photograph: S Ashmarin/PR
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Oleg Goutsol, Ukraine
Photograph: Oleg Goutsol/PR
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