Winner of the sharing the planet category: Saving Orangutans 01, by Alain Schroeder

‘Sibolangit, SOCP quarantine centre, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The whole SOCP team works together to prepare Brenda, an estimated three-month-old female orangutan (she has no teeth yet), for surgery. A sedative is administered, the arm is shaved, her temperature is taken, while others hold her head or her hand out of compassion for the baby … Brenda was confiscated from a villager in Blang Pidie on the west coast of Aceh who was keeping her as a pet’

Photograph: Alain Schroeder