Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Hyena’s Haunting Image Wins

Wim van den Heever wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year with a haunting hyena image in Namibia. The competition highlights nature's beauty and humanity's impact, promoting wildlife preservation and environmental awareness.

The yearly competition, run by London’s Nature Gallery, received a record-breaking 60,636 entrances from 113 countries and regions this year. Victors were introduced this week, with South African professional photographer Wim van den Heever declaring the leading reward.

Record-Breaking Competition

“This image is a multi-layered story of loss, strength and the environment’s silent accomplishment, making it an extraordinary piece of wild animals and preservation photography,” claimed Akanksha Sood Singh, jury participant for the competitors.

Now in its sixty-first year, the competition continues to be a ‘effective system for aesthetic storytelling, showing the diversity, charm and intricacy of the environment and humanity’s relationship to it’.

“Just how suitable that this photo was made in a ghost town,” stated Kathy Moran, chair of the judging panel. “You get a prickly sensation just taking a look at this photo and you understand that you remain in this hyena’s world.”

Hyena’s World: The Winning Image

“With the incorporation of our Biodiversity Intactness Index, this year’s exhibition will be our ideal mix of excellent artistry and groundbreaking science yet, assisting site visitors to become inspired to be advocates for our world,” claimed Dr Doug Gurr, director of the Natural History Gallery.

Abandoned by miners, wild animals has actually taken over. Is it still a community– it would certainly seem that way to me– just no longer ours.”

Nature and Humanity

From our cover story concerning the jobs ensuring every youngster has accessibility to musical tools, to functions on regenerative farming, and the surprising sector that saved a Norwegian island– the brand-new problem has lots of confident tales of compassion, modification and imagination.

A ghostly shot of a rare hyena visiting the skeletal remains of a long-abandoned diamond mining town in Kolmanskop, Namibia, has actually won the most effective photo in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year honor.