Judges have whittled down a shortlist of 24 phenomenal images from 60,636 entries for this yr’s competition. Submissions were constituted of around the globe and online voting is now open. Not only do these images showcase technical ability and a creative eye, but they highlight vital themes impacting the natural world today. Several entries draw attention to issues similar to poaching, pollution and illegal wildlife trade. Take a have a look at a few of the nominations on this gallery and don’t forget to forged your vote here. Voting closes on March 18 (Picture: Christopher Paetkau/Wildlife Photographer of the Yr)
Photographer Josef Stefan spent two weeks observing lynx from a hide at Torre de Juan Abad, Ciudad Real, Spain. This particular young lynx played with its prey for 20 minutes, throwing it up into the air multiple times before eating it (Picture: Josef Stefan/Wildlife Photographer of the Yr)
Shortly after this pangolin pup was born, its mother died. She was a victim of poaching and lived in appalling conditions. Pangolins are considered one of the worlds most trafficked animals, often wanted for his or her scales that are utilized in traditional medicine (Picture: Lance van de Vyver/Wildlife Photographer of the Yr)
These animal snares were confiscated over a one yr period. It was shot by photographer Adam Oswell within the Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. He helped park rangers and volunteers to construct the big pile with the intention to highlight the continued effort to combat poaching syndicates in the realm (Picture: Adam Oswell/Wildlife Photographer of the Yr)
This image captures a superpod of spinner dolphins herding their prey, superpods of this size have gotten increasingly rare as a consequence of overfishing and pollution. Photographer Cecile Gabillon said that her fisheye lens wasn’t even wide enough to absorb the total scene and that she was so amazed by the encounter that she almost forgot to return up for air (Picture: Cecile Gabillon/Wildlife Photographer of the Yr)
Attributable to deforestation, the natural habitat of those marvellous spatuletail hummingbirds has change into smaller and smaller. They now only exist in a small area of the Andes in norther Peru. Photographer Dustin Chen was lucky enough to come across one showing off it’s long tail while feeding on flowers (Picture: Dustin Chen/Wildlife Photographer of the Yr)
Photographer Nima Sarikhani has said that this image is probably going the last photo taken of this polar bear cub. Shortly after it was taken, the polar bear and its family were attempting to find food too near an area of huts and were chased away by people. The mother was sadly found dead by a close-by shore of the Svalbard archipelago, and the cub was then shot by police who claimed it was acting aggressively (Picture: Nima Sarikhani/Wildlife Photographer of the Yr)
This sun bear was found sheltering from the rain in a furnace just as a butterfly got here to land on its nose. It was taken within the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand where an increasing variety of sun bears have been seen entering campsites on the lookout for food (Picture: Mogens Trolle/Wildlife Photographer of the Yr)
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