{"id":229852,"date":"2025-10-16T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229852\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:31:13","slug":"wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-see-2025s-winning-snaps-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229852\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Photographer of the Year: See 2025’s winning snaps | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year for 2025 has been revealed, along with the winners in the competition’s other categories. <\/p>\n

South African photographer Wim van den Heever takes the main prize for his shot.<\/p>\n

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\n Pic: Wim van den Heeve\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/p>\n

Ghost Town Visitor shows showing a brown hyena visiting the skeletal remains of a long-abandoned diamond mining town in Kolmanskop, Namibia. It took Mr van den Heever a decade to get the single shot of the world’s rarest hyena, which are nocturnal and mainly solitary.<\/p>\n

He used camera trap technology for the image, according to the Natural History Museum, London, which develops and produces Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“How fitting that this photograph was made in a ghost town,” said Kathy Moran, Chair of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Jury. “You get a prickly feeling just looking at this image, and you know that you’re in this hyena’s realm.”<\/p>\n

The winning photo was whittled down from a record-breaking 60,636 entries from 113 countries and territories.<\/p>\n

The competition’s Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year goes to Italian photographer Andrea Dominizi, for his image After The Destruction, which captures habitat loss.<\/p>\n

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Framed against abandoned machinery, the image spotlights a longhorn beetle in the Lepini Mountains of central Italy, an area once logged for old beech trees.<\/p>\n

The competition’s Impact Award, which recognises “a conservation success, a story of hope or positive change,” has gone to Brazilian photographer Fernando Faciole, for his image Orphan Of The Road – spotlighting an orphaned giant anteater pup following its caregiver after an evening feed at a rehabilitation centre.<\/p>\n

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All the winning photographs will be showcased in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum from Friday. Find out more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are the other winners in all categories:<\/p>\n

Animals in their Environment<\/p>\n

Shane Gross took this photo, called Like an Eel Out Of Water, in D’Arros Island, Amirante, Seychelles. It shows a peppered moray eel very much in its element hunting for carrion at low tide.<\/p>\n

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Animal Portraits<\/p>\n

Shadow Hunter by Italian Philipp Egger shows the orange glint of an eagle owl’s eyes and the evening light falling on its feathers.<\/p>\n

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Behaviour: Amphibians and Reptiles<\/p>\n

Frolicking Frogs by Frenchman Quentin Martinez shows a gathering of lesser tree frogs in a breeding event in Kaw Mountain, French Guiana.<\/p>\n

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\n Pic: Quentin Martine\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/p>\n

Behaviour: Birds<\/p>\n

Synchronised Fishing by Qingrong Yang is a perfectly timed shot of a ladyfish snatching its prey from right under this little egret’s beak in Yundang Lake, Fujian Province, China.<\/p>\n

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Behaviour: Invertebrates<\/p>\n

This shot in Western Australia by Georgina Steytler, called Mad Hatterpillar, showcases the strange headgear of a gum-leaf skeletoniser caterpillar.<\/p>\n

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Behaviour: Mammals<\/p>\n

Cat Amongst The Flamingos by Dennis Stogsdill shows a caracal hunting a lesser flamingo in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

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\n Pic: Dennis Stogsdill\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/p>\n

Oceans: The Bigger Picture<\/p>\n

Audun Rikardsen witnesses feeding time around an Atlantic fishing vessel during a polar night in northern Norway in his photo, The Feast.<\/p>\n

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Natural Artistry<\/p>\n

Simone Baumeister shows an orb weaver spider on its web on a pedestrian bridge, silhouetted by lights from the cars below in Ibbenbu\u0308ren in Germany.<\/p>\n

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Underwater<\/p>\n

Survival Purse by Ralph Pace illuminates the egg case of a swell shark, tethered to the base of a giant kelp, in Monterey Bay, California.<\/p>\n

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Plants and Fungi<\/p>\n

In this photo, called Deadly Allure, Chien Lee uses a UV torch to reveal the fluorescent world of an insect-attracting pitcher plant in the city of Kuching in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

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Portfolio Award<\/p>\n

Alexey Kharitonov, a self-taught photographer, won the Portfolio Award for a number of photos taken during his artistic exploration of remote regions in the Russian North, Siberia, and Asia.<\/p>\n

The image below, called Eye Of The Tundra, shows a 30-metre-wide thermokarst lake.<\/p>\n

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Photojournalist Story Award<\/p>\n

In a series of photos, Spanish photographer Javier Aznar Gonz\u00e1lez de Rueda explored the complex relationship between humans and rattlesnakes across the US.<\/p>\n

This photo, labelled From Venom To Medicine, shows drops of deadly venom dripping into a glass as an eastern diamondback rattlesnake is milked, before the drops are used to produce antivenom that has the potential to treat medical conditions.<\/p>\n

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Photojournalism<\/p>\n

Jon A Ju\u00e1rez won this for documenting ground-breaking science used in Kenya to save the northern white rhino from extinction through in vitro fertilisation (IVF).<\/p>\n

This southern white rhino foetus, which did not survive due to an infection, was the result of the first successful rhino embryo transfer into a surrogate mother through IVF. The photo is aptly called How To Save A Species.<\/p>\n

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\n Pic: Jon A Juarez\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/p>\n

Wetlands: The Bigger Picture<\/p>\n

German photographer Sebastian Fr\u00f6lich finds a springtail among a galaxy of neon green gas bubbles in Austrian moorlands for this photo, named Vanishing Pond.<\/p>\n

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\n Pic: Sebastian Frolic\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/p>\n

Rising Star Award<\/p>\n

Luca Lorenz won the award with some of his dark, atmospheric explorations of wildlife in his native Germany.<\/p>\n

This one, called Sole Survivor, shows a Eurasian pygmy owl looking out for its chicks after its mate disappeared.<\/p>\n

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\n Pic: Luca Lorenz\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/p>\n

10 Years and Under<\/p>\n

Jamie Smart took this photo of an orb weaver spider inside its silken retreat on a cold September morning in mid-Wales, keeping the spider perfectly lit and symmetrically framed as she manually focused her camera. It’s called Caught In The Headlights.<\/p>\n

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11-14 Years<\/p>\n

French youngster Lubin Godin finds himself in mist-shrouded mountains with silhouetted ibex in this photo, called Alpine Dawn.<\/p>\n

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