Jana Bedek, a biologist and cave explorer from Croatia, has become one of seven winners of this year's Whitley Fund for Nature awards. The awards, presented by HRH The Princess Royal and backed by David Attenborough, reward projects helping communities and projects around the world.

Bedek, who is also President of the Croatian Bio-speleological Society, won the Whitley Award for her work to explore, study and raise public awareness of the wildlife-rich caverns, tunnels, rivers and lakes which lie beneath the Dinarides mountains. 

The video, narrated by David Attenborough, describes her work.