<p>This is the 21st century and anything is now possible with the help of technology, and Tesla owner <a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> seems to be quite excited to combine technology and a collective mission of 'green Earth'.</p>

<p>Making sure that he can help along with his technologically advanced ideas, Musk has now suggested constructing road tunnels under the busy city US roads.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/technology/elon-musk-responds-to-game-developer-who-prodded-him-with-the-same-tweet-for-22-weeks-357727">Elon Musk responds to game developer who prodded him with the same Tweet for 22 weeks</a></strong></p>

<p>The birth of this idea took place in a series of exchanged tweets between the tech tycoon Elon Musk and Miami's Mayor.</p>

<p>"Battery cell production is the fundamental rate-limiter slowing down a sustainable energy future. Very important problem," Musk tweeted.</p>

<p>Miami's Mayor Francis Suarez agreed to it, saying, "couldn’t agree more...would love to have you @CityofMiami. City Hall to discuss it and potential solutions for the benefit of our future..."</p>

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<p>Musk explained that the traffic jams "generate megatons of toxic gases &amp; particulate, but @boringcompany road tunnels under Miami would solve traffic &amp; be an example to the world."</p>

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<p>He also added that he has already had a word about this with the Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last week. "If Governor &amp; Mayor want this done, we will do it," Musk tweeted.</p>

<p>While the idea sounds nice, many Floridians are not convinced about the same as they feel it does not sound do-able due to the shallow water table and the heavy expense the construction will incur.</p>


This is the 21st century and anything is now possible with the help of technology, and Tesla owner Elon Musk seems to be quite excited to combine technology and a collective mission of 'green Earth'.

This is the 21st century and anything is now possible with the help of technology, and Tesla owner Elon Musk seems to be quite excited to combine technology and a collective mission of 'green Earth'. Making sure that he can help along with his technologically advanced ideas, Musk has now suggested constructing road tunnels under the busy city US roads. Also read| Elon Musk responds to game developer who prodded him with the same Tweet for 22 weeks The birth of this idea took place in a series of exchanged tweets between the tech tycoon Elon Musk and Miami's Mayor. "Battery cell production is the fundamental rate-limiter slowing down a sustainable energy future. Very important problem," Musk tweeted. Miami's Mayor Francis Suarez agreed to it, saying, "couldn’t agree more...would love to have you @CityofMiami. City Hall to discuss it and potential solutions for the benefit of our future..." .@elonmusk couldn’t agree more...would love to have you @CityofMiami City Hall to discuss it and potential solutions for the benefit of our future... https://t.co/KCPifpSqw7 — Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) January 18, 2021 × Musk explained that the traffic jams "generate megatons of toxic gases & particulate, but @boringcompany road tunnels under Miami would solve traffic & be an example to the world." Cars & trucks stuck in traffic generate megatons of toxic gases & particulate, but @boringcompany road tunnels under Miami would solve traffic & be an example to the world. Spoke with @RonDeSantisFL about tunnels last week. If Governor & Mayor want this done, we will do it. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 18, 2021 × He also added that he has already had a word about this with the Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last week. "If Governor & Mayor want this done, we will do it," Musk tweeted. While the idea sounds nice, many Floridians are not convinced about the same as they feel it does not sound do-able due to the shallow water table and the heavy expense the construction will incur.

Tweet meet: Elon Musk suggests road tunnels for green Earth; Miami Mayor agrees

<p>Pope Francis urged countries on Saturday to work towards net zero carbon emissions and committed Vatican City - the world`s smallest state - to reaching the target by 2050.</p>

<p>Francis, who has championed environmental causes since his election in 2013, told a U.N. climate summit the 108-acre (44-hectare) city-state surrounded by Rome would be doing its bit to fight climate change.</p>

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<p>"The current pandemic and climate change, which are not only environmentally relevant, but also ethically, socially, economically and politically, affect, above all, the lives of the poorest and most fragile," he said in a video message to the summit.</p>

<p>"In addition to adopting some measures that cannot be postponed any longer, a strategy is needed to reduce net emissions to zero," Francis said.</p>

<p>He committed the Vatican "to reducing net emissions to zero by 2050," as well as intensifying environmental management efforts and furthering the rational use of natural resources such as water and planting more trees.</p>

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<p>A Vatican statement said the city-state was moving ahead with plans to substitute all its combustion engine cars with electric or hybrid vehicles.</p>

<p>It said the Vatican, which began installing solar panels in 2008 and banned single-use plastic bags last year, was now recycling 65% of its waste and aimed to reach 75% in 2023.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/pope-installs-new-cardinals-including-first-african-american-346172">Pope installs new cardinals, including first African-American</a></strong></p>

<p>In his address, Francis said the Holy See was committed to promoting, in Catholic schools and elsewhere, "an education for integral ecology" to favour development and sustainability and encourage economic policies that respect the environment.</p>

<p>In 2015, Francis wrote a landmark encyclical "Laudato Si" (Praised Be) on the need to protect nature. It backed scientific evidence that human activity was to blame for global warming.</p>

<p>Francis also strongly backed the Paris agreement to limit the global rise of temperatures and has said he was saddened by U.S. President Donald Trump`s decision to withdraw from it.</p>


Pope Francis urged countries on Saturday to work towards net zero carbon emissions and committed Vatican City - the world`s smallest state - to reaching the target by 2050.

Pope Francis urged countries on Saturday to work towards net zero carbon emissions and committed Vatican City - the world`s smallest state - to reaching the target by 2050. Francis, who has championed environmental causes since his election in 2013, told a U.N. climate summit the 108-acre (44-hectare) city-state surrounded by Rome would be doing its bit to fight climate change. Also read| Brazilian model going to 'heaven' after Pope Francis likes her image on Instagram "The current pandemic and climate change, which are not only environmentally relevant, but also ethically, socially, economically and politically, affect, above all, the lives of the poorest and most fragile," he said in a video message to the summit. "In addition to adopting some measures that cannot be postponed any longer, a strategy is needed to reduce net emissions to zero," Francis said. He committed the Vatican "to reducing net emissions to zero by 2050," as well as intensifying environmental management efforts and furthering the rational use of natural resources such as water and planting more trees. Also read| Pope Francis to make first trip from Vatican to Iraq in March 2021 A Vatican statement said the city-state was moving ahead with plans to substitute all its combustion engine cars with electric or hybrid vehicles. It said the Vatican, which began installing solar panels in 2008 and banned single-use plastic bags last year, was now recycling 65% of its waste and aimed to reach 75% in 2023. Also read| Pope installs new cardinals, including first African-American In his address, Francis said the Holy See was committed to promoting, in Catholic schools and elsewhere, "an education for integral ecology" to favour development and sustainability and encourage economic policies that respect the environment. In 2015, Francis wrote a landmark encyclical "Laudato Si" (Praised Be) on the need to protect nature. It backed scientific evidence that human activity was to blame for global warming. Francis also strongly backed the Paris agreement to limit the global rise of temperatures and has said he was saddened by U.S. President Donald Trump`s decision to withdraw from it.

Pope commits Vatican to net zero carbon emissions by 2050

<p>Paleontologists call it the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, but it has another name: “the Great Dying.” It happened about 252 million years ago, and, over the course of just tens of thousands of years, 96% of all life in the oceans and, perhaps, roughly 70% of all land life vanished forever.</p>

<p>The smoking gun was ancient volcanism in what is today Siberia, where volcanoes disgorged enough magma and lava over about a million years to cover an amount of land equivalent to a third or even half of the surface area of the United States.</p>

<p>But volcanism on its own didn’t cause the extinction. The Great Dying was fueled, two separate teams of scientists report in two recent papers, by extensive oil and coal deposits that the Siberian magma blazed through, leading to combustion that released greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/science/greenlands-largest-glaciers-likely-to-melt-faster-than-feared-study-343852" hreflang="en">Greenland's largest glaciers likely to melt faster than feared: Study</a></strong></p>

<p>“There was lots of oil, coal and carbonates formed before the extinction underground near the Siberian volcanism,” said Kunio Kaiho, a geochemist at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and lead author of one of the studies, published this month in Geology, which presented evidence for the burning of ancient fossil fuels by magma. “We discovered two volcanic combustion events coinciding with the end-Permian land extinction and marine extinction.”</p>

<p>The findings solidify the Great Dying as one of the best examples that we have from Earth’s history of what a changing climate can do to life on our planet.</p>

<p>Kaiho and his team retrieved samples from rock deposits in south China and northern Italy that formed around the time of the extinction, and they detected spikes of a molecule called coronene. That substance, Kaiho explained, is produced only when fossil fuels combust at extremely high temperatures — like those you might find in magma.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/science/chemicals-found-in-daily-use-products-could-decrease-covid-19-vaccines-effectiveness-reports-343850" hreflang="en">Chemicals found in daily-use products could decrease COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness: Reports</a></strong></p>

<p>One potential issue with coronene, says Henrik Svenson, a geologist at the University of Oslo who was not involved in the work, is that it forms only at temperatures exceeding 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit, and to reach such temperatures, the fossil fuels would have had to be enveloped inside the magma, not just sitting next to it.</p>

<p>But the team’s findings are backed up by a Nature Geoscience study published last month that presents chemical evidence for the acidification of the oceans after the fossil fuel combustion and greenhouse gas release.</p>

<p>As the planet warmed, the oceans absorbed more and more carbon dioxide. This caused waters to acidify to the point that organisms like corals would have dissolved, explained Hana Jurikova, a biogeochemist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who led the study. Jurikova and her team discovered spikes of the element boron — a proxy for acidity levels — in fossil brachiopod shells found in rocks in Italy that stretch across the extinction boundary.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/science/coronavirus-mutations-appearing-in-siberia-russian-scientists-343820" hreflang="en">Coronavirus mutations appearing in Siberia: Russian scientists</a></strong></p>

<p>“For the first time, we’re able to explain what caused the extinction,” Jurikova said. “If you just increase the temperature, organisms often find a way to cope. But the problem is if you really change temperature and acidification, and maybe nutrients, that’s when your organisms will not be able to adapt.” Today, with sea-surface temperatures on the rise, the oceans are acidifying, and some shelled animals are already showing signs of their shells dissolving.</p>

<p>Svenson thinks the next step for geologists is field work in Siberia to get a handle on whether ancient magma interacted with the fossil fuel deposits as the new studies imply.</p>

<p>“A lot of this we simply do not know,” Svenson said.</p>

<p>While you may be tempted to draw an analogy between the Great Dying and today’s warming climate, there are significant differences. For one, the greenhouse gases emitted during the Permian-Triassic events were far greater than anything humans have produced. Also, the volcanoes released carbon dioxide 252 million years ago at a rate much slower than humans emit it today.</p>

<p>“The amount of carbon released to the atmosphere per year from the Siberian traps, it was still 14 times lower than the rate we have at the moment,” Jurikova said. “So, the amount of carbon we’re burning per year at the moment is much higher than during the largest extinction. I mean, that’s incredible, right?”</p>


Paleontologists call it the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, but it has another name: “the Great Dying.” It happened about 252 million years ago, and, over the course of just tens of thousands of years, 96% of all life in the oceans and, perhaps, roughly 70% of all land life vanished forever.

Paleontologists call it the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, but it has another name: “the Great Dying.” It happened about 252 million years ago, and, over the course of just tens of thousands of years, 96% of all life in the oceans and, perhaps, roughly 70% of all land life vanished forever. The smoking gun was ancient volcanism in what is today Siberia, where volcanoes disgorged enough magma and lava over about a million years to cover an amount of land equivalent to a third or even half of the surface area of the United States. But volcanism on its own didn’t cause the extinction. The Great Dying was fueled, two separate teams of scientists report in two recent papers, by extensive oil and coal deposits that the Siberian magma blazed through, leading to combustion that released greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Also read| Greenland's largest glaciers likely to melt faster than feared: Study “There was lots of oil, coal and carbonates formed before the extinction underground near the Siberian volcanism,” said Kunio Kaiho, a geochemist at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and lead author of one of the studies, published this month in Geology, which presented evidence for the burning of ancient fossil fuels by magma. “We discovered two volcanic combustion events coinciding with the end-Permian land extinction and marine extinction.” The findings solidify the Great Dying as one of the best examples that we have from Earth’s history of what a changing climate can do to life on our planet. Kaiho and his team retrieved samples from rock deposits in south China and northern Italy that formed around the time of the extinction, and they detected spikes of a molecule called coronene. That substance, Kaiho explained, is produced only when fossil fuels combust at extremely high temperatures — like those you might find in magma. Also read| Chemicals found in daily-use products could decrease COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness: Reports One potential issue with coronene, says Henrik Svenson, a geologist at the University of Oslo who was not involved in the work, is that it forms only at temperatures exceeding 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit, and to reach such temperatures, the fossil fuels would have had to be enveloped inside the magma, not just sitting next to it. But the team’s findings are backed up by a Nature Geoscience study published last month that presents chemical evidence for the acidification of the oceans after the fossil fuel combustion and greenhouse gas release. As the planet warmed, the oceans absorbed more and more carbon dioxide. This caused waters to acidify to the point that organisms like corals would have dissolved, explained Hana Jurikova, a biogeochemist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who led the study. Jurikova and her team discovered spikes of the element boron — a proxy for acidity levels — in fossil brachiopod shells found in rocks in Italy that stretch across the extinction boundary. Also read| Coronavirus mutations appearing in Siberia: Russian scientists “For the first time, we’re able to explain what caused the extinction,” Jurikova said. “If you just increase the temperature, organisms often find a way to cope. But the problem is if you really change temperature and acidification, and maybe nutrients, that’s when your organisms will not be able to adapt.” Today, with sea-surface temperatures on the rise, the oceans are acidifying, and some shelled animals are already showing signs of their shells dissolving. Svenson thinks the next step for geologists is field work in Siberia to get a handle on whether ancient magma interacted with the fossil fuel deposits as the new studies imply. “A lot of this we simply do not know,” Svenson said. While you may be tempted to draw an analogy between the Great Dying and today’s warming climate, there are significant differences. For one, the greenhouse gases emitted during the Permian-Triassic events were far greater than anything humans have produced. Also, the volcanoes released carbon dioxide 252 million years ago at a rate much slower than humans emit it today. “The amount of carbon released to the atmosphere per year from the Siberian traps, it was still 14 times lower than the rate we have at the moment,” Jurikova said. “So, the amount of carbon we’re burning per year at the moment is much higher than during the largest extinction. I mean, that’s incredible, right?”

Burning fossil fuels helped drive Earth’s most massive extinction

<p>In order to contribute to the aim of a green Earth, the United Kingdom has decided to impose a ban on the sales of on diesel and petrol cars from the year 2030.</p>

<p>The decision has come as a part of a 10-point plan for a&nbsp;"green industrial revolution", which will be unveiled by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday, November 18.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/boris-johnson-says-devolving-powers-to-scotland-was-a-disaster-faces-criticism-343737">Boris Johnson says devolving powers to Scotland was 'a disaster'; faces criticism</a></strong></p>

<p>Boris Johnson has&nbsp;earmarked £12 billion (13.4 billion euros, $15.9 billion) for the laid-out plans with the aim of making the country carbon neutral by the year 2050. The Johnson administration is also hoping to generate nearly 250,000 jobs through the same plan, which includes&nbsp;quadrupling offshore wind power within a decade while scaling up hydrogen production capacity for industry, transport, power and homes.</p>

<p>The UK will also be investing in zero-emission public transport, research for zero-emission planes and ships and researchers will also be provided resources for researching on how to make cycling and walking more accessible and attractive.</p>

<p>"My 10-point plan will create, support and protect hundreds of thousands of green jobs, whilst making strides towards net zero by 2050," Johnson said in a statement ahead of publishing the full blueprint.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/uk-pm-boris-johnson-tells-ministers-that-brexit-deal-with-eu-remains-uncertain-343769">UK PM Boris Johnson tells ministers that Brexit deal with EU remains uncertain</a></strong></p>

<p>"Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales."</p>

<p>Further, an amount of&nbsp;£525 million will also be spent on developing large and small-scale nuclear plants and new advanced modular reactors — a move which is being debated by environmentalists.</p>

<p>Johnson aims to make the UK a world leader in the&nbsp;carbon capture technology and the City of London a "global centre of green finance".&nbsp;</p>

<p>For now, the government is planning to invest&nbsp;£1.3 billion on installing various chargepoints for the electric vehicles in homes and streets, and will also initiate grants worth&nbsp;£582 million to motivate them to buy zero/ultra-low emission vehicles.</p>

<p>The details of the plan will be revealed soon by Boris Johnson.</p>


In order to contribute to the aim of a green Earth, the United Kingdom has decided to impose a ban on the sales of on diesel and petrol cars from the year 2030. The decision has come as a part of a 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution", which will be unveiled by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday, November 18.

In order to contribute to the aim of a green Earth, the United Kingdom has decided to impose a ban on the sales of on diesel and petrol cars from the year 2030. The decision has come as a part of a 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution", which will be unveiled by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday, November 18. Also read| Boris Johnson says devolving powers to Scotland was 'a disaster'; faces criticism Boris Johnson has earmarked £12 billion (13.4 billion euros, $15.9 billion) for the laid-out plans with the aim of making the country carbon neutral by the year 2050. The Johnson administration is also hoping to generate nearly 250,000 jobs through the same plan, which includes quadrupling offshore wind power within a decade while scaling up hydrogen production capacity for industry, transport, power and homes. The UK will also be investing in zero-emission public transport, research for zero-emission planes and ships and researchers will also be provided resources for researching on how to make cycling and walking more accessible and attractive. "My 10-point plan will create, support and protect hundreds of thousands of green jobs, whilst making strides towards net zero by 2050," Johnson said in a statement ahead of publishing the full blueprint. Also read| UK PM Boris Johnson tells ministers that Brexit deal with EU remains uncertain "Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales." Further, an amount of £525 million will also be spent on developing large and small-scale nuclear plants and new advanced modular reactors — a move which is being debated by environmentalists. Johnson aims to make the UK a world leader in the carbon capture technology and the City of London a "global centre of green finance". For now, the government is planning to invest £1.3 billion on installing various chargepoints for the electric vehicles in homes and streets, and will also initiate grants worth £582 million to motivate them to buy zero/ultra-low emission vehicles. The details of the plan will be revealed soon by Boris Johnson.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ban petrol and diesel cars from 2030

<p>They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. But in this case, these pictures&nbsp;convey so much more.</p>

<p>The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards can easily be labelled as one of the quirkiest award series that is linked to the cause of conservation. It is a world renowned photography competition focused on animals, with an aim to bring forth humour while spreading the message of conservation.</p>

<p>Have a look at some of the winning entries in the year 2016:&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Tom Stables timed his shot to perfection to capture one of those days ... we&#39;ve all had them. It was another Highly Commended shot. Enjoy. <a href="https://t.co/p3exPrL9AB">pic.twitter.com/p3exPrL9AB</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Anup Deodhar shot this stunningly proud base guitarist/warrior/pole vaulter lizzard to get Highly Commended in this years awards. <a href="https://t.co/qZDFMEHtxD">pic.twitter.com/qZDFMEHtxD</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/799158017417740288">November 17, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The 2016 Comedy Wildlife Photographer of the Year is Angela BOHLKE from the USA. An amazing hilarious image. Huge congratulations. <a href="https://t.co/RKvRAxV6Sv">pic.twitter.com/RKvRAxV6Sv</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/797007698193776640">November 11, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">One more from our final 40. Judging next week. Look out for the winners. Sign up for our updates at <a href="https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z">https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z</a> <a href="https://t.co/QpuxSXzGxi">pic.twitter.com/QpuxSXzGxi</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/791149825127505920">October 26, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">One of the top 40 in with a chance. Winner revealed on the 9th November... stay tuned... <a href="https://t.co/ALT1RjkuYl">pic.twitter.com/ALT1RjkuYl</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/790099137249284097">October 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Not sure who looks more silly... two animals in one for the competition. Follow us on for more hilarious imagery. <a href="https://t.co/VmgLLW3AC0">https://t.co/VmgLLW3AC0</a> <a href="https://t.co/GskSt8qvTN">pic.twitter.com/GskSt8qvTN</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/784294384363712513">October 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The competition is over, the judging has started. Keep up to date by signing up at <a href="https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z">https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z</a>. We feel like this right now!!! <a href="https://t.co/ChYLQio16u">pic.twitter.com/ChYLQio16u</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/784039981794852865">October 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sign up to our newsletter at <a href="https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z">https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z</a> and stay up to date...and laugh at this while you do just that. <a href="https://t.co/9i1ECgus4o">pic.twitter.com/9i1ECgus4o</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/782669743446749184">October 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Big night out? Or whatever caption you think works! <a href="https://t.co/qHjQWMgqzD">pic.twitter.com/qHjQWMgqzD</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Another runner up from the 2015 awards. Name the animal and you can enter the 2016 competition. Or enter anyway!!!! <a href="https://t.co/C5mZYBVfPE">pic.twitter.com/C5mZYBVfPE</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/748236988357173248">June 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">WINNERS announced last night, v exciting Well done Julian Rad, Liam Richardson and Oliver Dreike <a href="https://t.co/QjSaK108Ef">pic.twitter.com/QjSaK108Ef</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/664774512425177088">November 12, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">One week to go for the deadline!! Enter your funny wildlife pics now at <a href="http://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z">http://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z</a> win a safari / nikon <a href="http://t.co/R1KFF84U1b">pic.twitter.com/R1KFF84U1b</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/646947498116952064">September 24, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">We are lucky enough have Martin Le-May&#39;s extraordinary image of the woodpecker and weasel on its back entered <a href="http://t.co/lUM9NL2Zfx">pic.twitter.com/lUM9NL2Zfx</a></p>
&mdash; Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyPhotoAward/status/636106001901592576">August 25, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p>(Contributed by: Zeba Khan)</p>


The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is an initiative that hopes to help conserve animals and birds through funny pictures

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. But in this case, these pictures convey so much more. The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards can easily be labelled as one of the quirkiest award series that is linked to the cause of conservation. It is a world renowned photography competition focused on animals, with an aim to bring forth humour while spreading the message of conservation. Have a look at some of the winning entries in the year 2016: Tom Stables timed his shot to perfection to capture one of those days ... we've all had them. It was another Highly Commended shot. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/p3exPrL9AB — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) November 17, 2016 Anup Deodhar shot this stunningly proud base guitarist/warrior/pole vaulter lizzard to get Highly Commended in this years awards. pic.twitter.com/qZDFMEHtxD — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) November 17, 2016 The 2016 Comedy Wildlife Photographer of the Year is Angela BOHLKE from the USA. An amazing hilarious image. Huge congratulations. pic.twitter.com/RKvRAxV6Sv — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) November 11, 2016 One more from our final 40. Judging next week. Look out for the winners. Sign up for our updates at https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z pic.twitter.com/QpuxSXzGxi — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) October 26, 2016 One of the top 40 in with a chance. Winner revealed on the 9th November... stay tuned... pic.twitter.com/ALT1RjkuYl — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) October 23, 2016 Not sure who looks more silly... two animals in one for the competition. Follow us on for more hilarious imagery. https://t.co/VmgLLW3AC0 pic.twitter.com/GskSt8qvTN — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) October 7, 2016 The competition is over, the judging has started. Keep up to date by signing up at https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z. We feel like this right now!!! pic.twitter.com/ChYLQio16u — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) October 6, 2016 Sign up to our newsletter at https://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z and stay up to date...and laugh at this while you do just that. pic.twitter.com/9i1ECgus4o — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) October 2, 2016 Big night out? Or whatever caption you think works! pic.twitter.com/qHjQWMgqzD — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) September 6, 2016 Another runner up from the 2015 awards. Name the animal and you can enter the 2016 competition. Or enter anyway!!!! pic.twitter.com/C5mZYBVfPE — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) June 29, 2016 WINNERS announced last night, v exciting Well done Julian Rad, Liam Richardson and Oliver Dreike pic.twitter.com/QjSaK108Ef — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) November 12, 2015 One week to go for the deadline!! Enter your funny wildlife pics now at http://t.co/ZBPJDUnV3z win a safari / nikon pic.twitter.com/R1KFF84U1b — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) September 24, 2015 We are lucky enough have Martin Le-May's extraordinary image of the woodpecker and weasel on its back entered pic.twitter.com/lUM9NL2Zfx — Comedy Wildlife Phot (@FunnyPhotoAward) August 25, 2015 (Contributed by: Zeba Khan)

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