August 31st 2023.
Incredible stuff, indeed! The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has released 14 Highly Commended photos from the 2023 competition, ahead of the winners’ awards ceremony.
The photos show a variety of stunning and remarkable scenes, from a fox that was scarred in an attack to two storks hunting through a controlled fire. Atsuyuki Ohshima captured an incredible moment of a macaque leaping from a tree onto a deer on the island of Yakushima, while Caitlin Henderson spotted a possum eating insects outside her balcony window in Australia.
One of the photos shows an injured fox at a rehabilitation centre in Kent, while two white storks were captured hunting in a Kenyan bushland. There is also a rare snow leopard hunting a Pallas’s cat in China, and a grumpy tiger cub being evacuated from eastern Ukraine.
Kathy Moran, chairwoman of the judging panel, declared that the photos are “a thought-provoking collection” that show “absolute beauty, rarely seen behaviours and species” as well as “stark reminders of what we are doing to the natural world.”
The 59th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition received almost 50,000 entries from 95 countries - a testament to the skill, creativity, and originality of the photographers. An exhibition of the photos will open at the Natural History Museum on October 13th and will run until June 30th next year. There will also be a UK and international tour of the photos, so everyone will have the opportunity to see these incredible images.
Dr Doug Gurr, director of the Natural History Museum, highlighted the importance of photography to raise awareness of the urgent biodiversity and climate crises. He said that the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition “offers hope and achievable actions visitors can take to help protect the natural world.”
So if you’re looking for an inspiring way to help the natural world, why not check out the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition? Or if you want to do something more practical, UK dairy farmers are calling on the nation to become wildlife heroes, and there are also once-in-a-lifetime wildlife experiences in Australia if you’re looking for an unforgettable experience.
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