The Natural History Museum, which organises the Wildlife Photography Awards each year, has opened voting for the People's Choice Award 2024. Explore stunning images of wildlife and nature worldwide, and vote for your favourite.
Curious Connection: A chimpanzee gazes down intently as its family traverses Gabon's Loango National Park. Captured by Nora Milligan, this moment highlights the Rekambo group's captivating behaviour. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Earth and Sky: Francisco Negroni captured Villarrica volcano's fiery glow illuminating a rare double lenticular cloud at nightfall, showcasing the unpredictability of one of Chile's most active volcanoes. (Image: Natural History Museum)
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Sneak Attack: Erlend Haarberg captures a polar bear cub in Svalbard attempting playful underwater hunts on a fulmar, showcasing essential survival skills for life in the Arctic. (Image: Natural History Museum)
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Snuffling Sengi: Ian Wood's photo captures a Eurasian badger ambling beneath badger graffiti in St Leonards-on-Sea, illuminated by a lamppost, highlighting urban wildlife coexistence. (Image: Natural History Museum)
Concert in the Forest: Vincent Premel captures a Surinam golden-eyed tree frog puffing its cheeks during explosive breeding season in French Guiana’s first rains. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Unsold: Jose Fragozo captures a cheetah cub hissing during a rescue in Ethiopia, highlighting illegal wildlife trafficking. The cub was safely relocated. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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The Arrival: Brad Leue captures floodwaters channelling into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, South Australia, bringing life to the desert and its rare wildlife. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Annoying Neighbour: Bence Máté captures a European roller ambushing a little owl during breeding season in Hungary’s Kiskunság National Park. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
Aspen Shadows: Devon Pradhuman captures four grey wolves crossing snowy aspens in Yellowstone, USA, during early spring as they search for their next meal. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Drifting Dinner: Noam Kortler captured a decorator crab on a sea squirt, camouflaged with Tubularia, feeding on plankton during a night dive in Komodo, Indonesia. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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A Good Scratch: Mark Williams captures a beluga whale exfoliating in Canada’s Arctic. These sociable ‘canaries of the sea’ gather here, safe from orcas. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Slap Shot: Photographer Savannah Rose captures a beaver in Wyoming using a dramatic tail slap to alert its family to a potential newcomer. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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The Brave Gecko: Photographed by Willie Burger van Schalkwyk, a giant ground gecko bravely defends itself against a pale chanting goshawk in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Evening Song: Photographer Christian Brinkmann captures a singing Eurasian blackbird silhouetted against colourful fairground lights in Münster, Germany, blending nature and festivity. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Forest of Dreams: Photographer Samuel Bloch captured a northern giant petrel on Enderby Island, New Zealand, where it nests near a rātā tree forest. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Spiked: Photographer David Northall captured a bloodied honey badger, determined to finish off a Cape porcupine after a fierce, quill-filled battle in Botswana. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Togetherness: Ivan Ivanek captures red-shanked douc langurs mating gracefully in Vietnam’s Sơn Trà peninsula. Critically endangered, these primates face threats from habitat loss and hunting. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Scanning the Realm: Aaron Baggenstos captures a puma in Chile's Torres del Paine, showcasing conservation efforts that balance ecotourism, sheep farming, and coexistence with wildlife. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Wolf Pack: Indian wolves, photographed by Arvind Ramamurthy, play in Bhigwan's fields, showcasing resilience despite habitat loss, disease risks, and dwindling numbers, with hopes for a strong comeback. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Fallen from the Sky: Carlo D'Aurizio captures a haunting scene of dead butterflies and moths floating in an Italian stream, their mysterious deaths unexplained. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Meeting in the Marsh: Michael Forsberg captures a biologist checking an endangered whooping crane's health in Louisiana, aiding conservation efforts for a population now exceeding 800. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Edge of Night: Jess Findlay captured a barn owl leaving a derelict barn near Vancouver, using precise timing and lighting for this stunning nocturnal shot. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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Icy Repose: Photographer Sue captured a peaceful Weddell seal resting on an ice floe in Neko Harbour, Antarctica, showcasing its thick blubber for warmth (Image Credit: Natural History Museum).
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Whiteout: Photographer Michel d'Oultremont captures a stoat blending into Belgium's snowy landscape, observing its territory before hunting. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
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No Access: Photographer Ian Wood captured a Eurasian badger glancing at graffiti on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, illuminated by a lamppost. (Image Credit: Natural History Museum)
