{"id":452652,"date":"2026-02-04T05:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452652\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:23:19","slug":"the-final-24-images-of-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452652\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final 24 Images of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photographers from 113 different countries entered a record-setting 60,636 photos to the 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a> competition in 2025. The outstanding contest winners were unveiled last fall<\/a>, but now it\u2019s time for the people to have their say. One of these 24 beautiful wildlife photos will win the prestigious People\u2019s Choice Award, and voting is open now. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s People\u2019s Choice Award is presented by Nuveen, the Lead Corporate Sponsor of the Natural History Museum\u2019s Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. The exhibition not only appears at the Natural History Museum in London but also travels internationally to Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and more locations worldwide. <\/p>\n

The Natural History Museum, London, and an international panel of photography, wildlife, conservation, and science experts selected the two dozen shortlisted photographs below. Subjects range from teeny-tiny critters like bug nymphs, spiders, and hummingbirds to big, powerful predators like polar bears, lions, and tigers, with all sorts of wonderful animals in between. <\/p>\n

\"AA brown-throated three-toed sloth mother cradles her young in her arms to shelter it from the rain. | \u00a9 Dvir Barkay (USA), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AAn ambush bug nymph remains motionless in a flower, waiting for prey to wander within reach. | \u00a9 Joseph Ferraro (USA), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AAgainst the darkness of the night-time sea, a juvenile swimming crab hitches a ride on a jellyfish. | \u00a9 Chris Gug (USA), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year
\n \"AA young lynx playfully throws a rodent into the air before killing and devouring it. | \u00a9 Josef Stefan (Austria), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA pangolin pup nestles into the warmth of a blanket at a rescue centre in South Africa. | \u00a9 Lance van de Vyver (South Africa), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA rare tiger with wide, dark stripes wanders a tiger reserve in India. | \u00a9 Prasenjeet Yadav (India), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA sun bear shelters from the rain in a furnace as a butterfly settles on its snout. | \u00a9 Mogens Trolle (Denmark), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"Close-upA polar bear cub looks into the camera as it accompanies its mother on an unsuccessful hunting trip. | \u00a9 Nima Sarikhani (UK), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AerialA mother polar bear and her three cubs pause peacefully in the summer heat. | \u00a9 Christopher Paetkau (Canada), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"TwoA silhouetted pair of young bear cubs rear up and play-fight in the middle of a quiet road. | \u00a9 Will Nicholls (UK), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year
\n \"TwoA mountainous pile of confiscated snares lies behind Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers. | \u00a9 Adam Oswell (Australia), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA leucistic otter feeds on a catfish in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. | \u00a9 Daniela Anger (Germany), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"TwoA brushtail possum joey mirrors its mother climbing a branch while out foraging. | \u00a9 Charles Davis (Australia), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"TwoA group of flamingos stands out against a stark industrial backdrop of power lines. | \u00a9 Alexandre Brisson (Switzerland), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA spectacular superpod of spinner dolphins herds lanternfish towards the surface of the ocean. | \u00a9 Cecile Gabillon (France), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA sarus crane parent shares an intimate and moving moment with its one-week-old chick. | \u00a9 Ponlawat Thaipinnarong (Thailand), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA male marvellous spatuletail hummingbird shows off its long tail while it feeds on flowers. | \u00a9 Dustin Chen (UK), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year
\n \"AAn elusive rufous-vented ground cuckoo plucks up a cicada in the depths of the rainforest in Costa Rica. | \u00a9 Lior Berman (Costa Rica), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"FiveThree young kestrels prepare to leap from their nest to a nearby beam. | \u00a9 Peter Lindel (Germany), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AerialRows of solar panels stretch across the landscape like ripples on a water\u2019s surface. | \u00a9 Francesco Russo (UK\/Italy), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA tiny male sits on the abdomen of a well-camouflaged female broad-headed bark spider, waiting until she moults and is ready to mate. | \u00a9 Artur Tomaszek (Poland), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AA sika deer carries the interlocked severed head of a rival male that had died after their battle. | \u00a9 Kohei Nagira (Japan), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"Close-upA cellar spider, sometimes known as a daddy long-legs, carries a ball of precious eggs in its mouth. | \u00a9 Thomas Hunt (UK), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year \"AThe striking eyes of a curious lion-tailed macaque and its infant are on display as it races along a path. | \u00a9 Lalith Ekanyake (Sri Lanka), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/p>\n

Many of the photos are not only exceptional from an artistic and technical perspective but also shed vital light on important conservation topics. For example, one of the images above shows a pangolin pup at a rescue center in South Africa. Pangolins are among the most heavily trafficked animals in the world, and this poor pup was orphaned after its mother was poached. The pup miraculously survived. <\/p>\n

Another photo doesn\u2019t feature wildlife itself at all. It is a portrait of a Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger standing in front of a massive pile of illegal snares that the rangers had confiscated during just one year at Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. <\/p>\n

Another eye-catching photo doesn\u2019t include any visible animals at all. An aerial photo of a solar panel farm in the United Kingdom shows how the panels are organized around pastureland, highlighting the often complex relationship between people and nature. <\/p>\n

Online voting for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People\u2019s Choice Award 2026 is open now<\/a> and runs until March 18, 2026. The winner and four runners-up will be announced a week later, on March 25, and the winning shot will join the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. <\/p>\n

Image credits: Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a>; Natural History Museum, London. Individual photographers are credited in the image captions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographers from 113 different countries entered a record-setting 60,636 photos to the 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2837,76,354,355,49,48,23512,6806,356,75,58014,4779,186107,47932,323,58015],"class_list":{"0":"post-452652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-competition","15":"tag-contest","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-naturalhistorymuseum","19":"tag-nature","20":"tag-peopleschoice","21":"tag-photocontest","22":"tag-wildlife","23":"tag-wildlifephotographeroftheyear"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}