Photo © Staffan Widstrand. All images courtesy of World Nature Photography Awards, shared with permission
Moments of coincidental humor, stark cruelty, and surprising inter-species intimacies are on full display in this year’s . The winners of the 2022 competition encompass a vast array of life across six continents, from an elephant’s endearing attempt at camouflage to a crocodile covered in excessively dry mud spurred by drought. While many of the photos highlight natural occurrences, others spotlight the profound impacts humans have on the environment to particularly disastrous results, including ’s heartbreaking image that shows an Australian fur seal sliced open by a boat propellor.
Find some of the winning photos below, and explore the entire collection on .
Photo © Jens Cullmann, gold winner and grand prize of the World Nature Photographer of the Year
Photo © Norihiro Ikuma
Photo © Julie Kenny
Photo © Nicolas Remy
Photo © Vladislav Tasev
Photo © Tamas Aranyossy
Photo © Dr Artur Stankiewicz
Photo © Takuya Ishiguro
Photo © Thomas Vijayan
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