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Lissi’s love of nature nets prize
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After a successful launch year in the Isle of Man in 2020, 'The Young Nature Blogger 2021' went international as Kerry Biosphere and Dublin Bay Biosphere joined the competition.
Open to anyone under 21, entrants were asked to write up to 500 words about their favourite experience or place in nature.
Each Biosphere participating awarded local prizes with the top entry from each being submitted to the international competition between the three.
This week the two judges for the international element Author Dara McAnulty and Professor Martin Price, Chair of the UK Man and the Biosphere Committee, have unanimously chosen 'The Otter' by Lissi Nickelsen (Kerry) as winner of the inter-Biosphere Young Nature Blogger 2021.
"I absolutely love the observational detail in this piece," Dara McAnulty, author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the youngest ever winner of The Wainright Prize for nature writing said:
"You can really feel that breathless excitement and tension of seeing an otter. The drawing shows how multimedia can be used to great effect in a blog."
Professor Martin Price added that it "is a beautifully written blog about a very special encounter".
"I really get the feeling of what Lissi observed so carefully, and her joy about spending time with an otter! And the drawing is wonderful too!"
Lissi will receive a young naturalist writing set from Dara McNulty, a framed otter picture from Wildlife photographer Vincent Hyland, Wild Derrynane, and a family kayak trip in the Kerry Biosphere.
The winning entry can be read on the Kerry Biosphere website www.kerrybiosphere.ie/news.
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