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Check out annual wildlife photo contest shots

October 2, 2024 by The Wildlife Society

London Natural History Museum is showcasing a selection of photographs in advance of announcing the winners

Leaping sharks and stoats, jaguars killing caimans and a temperamental image of lions post-mating while storm clouds are brewing make up some of the photos in the running for the London Natural History Museum’s annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year. During the 60th anniversary of the exhibition, the museum’s contest judges will select between nearly 60,000 anonymous entries from 117 countries. “In this selection you see species diversity, a range of behavior and conservation issues,” said Kathy Moran, the chair of the judging panel, in a press release. “These images represent the evolution of the competition through the years, from pure natural history to photography that fully embraces representation of the natural world—the beauty and the challenges.” The winners of the contest will be announced Oct. 8, 2024. Here are a few of the entries.

Read more at the London Natural History Museum’s press office.

A jaguar (Panthera onca) bites a caiman in the Brazilian Pantanal. Credit: Ian Ford
A dead deer in California. Credit: Randy Robbins
A ball of male Dawson’s burrowing bees (Amegilla dawsoni) compete for access to a female in Australia. Credit: Georgina Steytler
A stoat (Mustela erminea) leaps into the air in France. Credit: Jose Manuel Grandío
A manatee and her calf laze in seagrasses that were replanted in Florida’s Crystal River as part of an ongoing restoration project in November 2021. Decades of pollution fueled algae that choked out the seagrasses that were the foundation of Crystal River’s underwater ecoystem and the primary food source for manatees. Over the last five years, community organizations and restoration biologists banded together to clean up the pollution and replant more than 400,000 square meters of seagrass. Manatees now use Crystal River year-round as a nursery to raise calfs. In other parts of the Florida, water pollution has wiped out seagrasses, triggering mass die offs as thousands of manatees starved to death. Crystal River’s restoration provides a roadmap for fixing problems in other parts of the state and hope for the future.
A David Bowie spider (Heteropoda davidbowie) carries an egg sac in Malaysia. Credit: Lam Soon Tak
Indian peacocks (Pavo cristatus) in Rajasthan. Credit: Shreyovi Mehta
Tawny owls (Strix aluco) in Germany. Credit: Sasha Jumanca
Weddel seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) navigate ice floes in Antarctica. Credit: Tamara Stubbs
A jackdaw (Coloeus monedula) brings carries rocks to use in nest-making in England. Credit: Samual Stone
A Pallas’ cat (Otocolobus manul) in Inner Mongolia with the moon setting behind. Credit: Xingchao Zhu
Muscles on the shoreline of Portugal. Credit: Theo Bosboom
Lions (Panthera leo) in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania with storm clouds behind. Credit: William Fortescue

Header Image: A Pallas’ cat (Otocolobus manul) in Inner Mongolia with the moon setting behind. Credit: Xingchao Zhu

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