Daniel Beltrá is an assignment photographer for Greenpeace

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

, working principally on conservation photography

Conservation photography

Conservation photography is the active use of the photographic process and its products, within the parameters of the journalistic activity, to achieve concrete conservation outcomes in the context of the biocultural landscape....

. A member of the International League of Conservation Photographers

International League of Conservation Photographers

The International League of Conservation Photographers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering environmental and cultural conservation through ethical photography...

, Beltra has won the Prince's Rainforests Project

Prince's Rainforests Project

The Prince’s Rainforests Project was set up in 2007 by HRH The Prince of Wales following reports from leading climate change experts, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to promote awareness of the urgent need to take action against tropical deforestation...

 (PRP) award at the Sony world photography awards  and the inaugural "Global Vision Award" from the Pictures of the Year International. In 2006 his work on the Amazon

Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon Rainforest , also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America...

 drought

Drought

A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of the affected region...

 won 3rd prize in the World Press Photo

World Press Photo

World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955 the organization is known for holding the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest....

 awards nature Series category, as well as the Golden Award in the China Press International Photo Contest. His career started with photos of bombings by the Basque

Basque nationalism

Basque nationalism is a political movement advocating for either further political autonomy or, chiefly, full independence of the Basque Country in the wider sense...

 separatist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) while he was a student at the Complutense University of Madrid

Complutense University of Madrid

The Complutense University of Madrid is a university in Madrid, and one of the oldest universities in the world. It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighboring city of...

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