2023 GLT Day Photo Contest Winners

Aug. 2, 2023 — Save the Golden Lion Tamarin and Associação Mico Leão Dourado are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Golden Lion Tamarin Day Photo Contest. This year’s contest featured three categories: pictures of solo (1) golden lion tamarin; pictures of two (2) or more golden lion tamarins (family group); and pictures of doppelgangers, which means pictures of golden lion tamarin(s) that were matched by a human(s) imitating the same pose, gesture and faces as the animal(s).

The winning photographers and the zoos where they took the photos are:

Solo photos

1st Place — Jasmine Mead, Yorkshire Wildlife Park, England

2nd Place — Kris Huybrechts, Apenheul Zoo, Netherlands

3rd Place — Veronica Schmidt, Honolulu Zoo, United States

Group photos

1st Place — Kris Huybrechts, Apenheul Zoo, Netherlands

2nd Place — Tony Bates, London Zoo Regents Park, England

3rd Place — Łukasz Panek, Orientarium Zoo Łódź, Poland

Doppelganger photos

1st Place — Ashleigh Nolder, Yorkshire Wildlife Park, England

2nd Place – Jen Hennessy, Roger Williams Park Zoo, United States

Congratulations to all our winners and thank you to all who participated in the contest. The winners will have trees planted in their names in the GLT habitat near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The planting and maintenance of trees supports the connection of isolated tracks of forest where GLTs live in the wild. 

To see more photos from the 2023 GLT Day Photo Contest, visit us on social media at @SaveTheGLT and Facebook.com/saveglts.