Runner-up successful the Humanity vs Nature category: No Air successful the Pit by Javier Aznar
Rattlesnakes successful a pit, Texas, United States, 2020. During the Jaycee’s Rattlesnake Round-Up successful Sweetwater, Texas, children observe hundreds of occidental diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox) crowded into a pit, immoderate of which suffocate to death. Started successful 1958, the lawsuit is held annually astatine the Nolan County Coliseum successful Newman Park. Snakes are captured from the wild, sold to the Round-Up, and kept successful pits. After measuring, sexing, and extracting venom, the snakes are killed for their skin, meat, and organs
Photograph: Javier Aznar
