Now in its 58th year, the world-famous Wildlife Photographer of the Year festival has released a preview of highly sought-after photographs that have been part of the final component of London’s Natural History Museum show for the world’s hundred nature photographs.
An underwater wonderland, an endangered giraffe, a curious polar bear hunting through the window and a pool party with tree frogs are some of the captivating entries included in this first cut that presents wildlife photography and photojournalism as art forms and demanding situations that affect us. or our position in the global herbarium and our duty to shield it.
This year, the Natural History Museum in London will present on October 14 a new and redesigned wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition featuring the hundred most remarkable photographs illustrating the precious beauty of our planet.
The 2022 festival attracted entries from photographers of all ages and reports from 93 countries. Each access was judged anonymously based on their creativity, originality and technical excellence through a foreign panel of industry experts.
Among the recently released photographs, the organizers of wildlife photographer of the year highlight Tiina Törmänen’s “superherbal encounter with fish” flying “through cloud-like algae, seven-year-old Joshua Cox’s portrait of a deer in Richmond Park, UK, the contrast between the global and human herbal infrastructure skillfully captured through José Fragozo in Nairobi, and Srikanth Mannepuri’s sobering look at the scale of unsustainable fishing.
“Captured through some of the most productive photographic skills around the world, the hundred photographs inspire curiosity, connection and wonder,” says Doug Gurr, director of the Natural History Museum. about global herbs in tactics that words can’t: from the urgency of declining biodiversity to the inspiring resurgence of a protected species. “
The winning images, the prestigious Grand Title Award and the Young Grand Title Award, will be announced on October 11, 2022.
The exhibition at the Natural History Museum opens on October 14 and will be open until July 2, 2023.
Registration opens for the 59th Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest, which begins on October 17, 2022 and closes on December 8.
The sight of a young male bonobo gently holding a mongoose deep in the rainforest is very unusual. The photographer follows an organization of those endangered wonder apes that are being studied by Barbara Fruth of the Max Planck Society.
He remembers going out “in front of the fire”, wading “towards the chest in the flooded forest” and walking 20 kilometers per day. “The bonobo held and stroked the little mongoose for more than an hour,” Ziegler said. The scenario probably had a darker beginning. Bonobos are omnivores and basically eat fruits, but they continually hunt. The baby mongoose, eventually released unharmed, would possibly have been captured when her mother was killed.
Underwater Wonderland, highly recommended, underwater category. Fish swimming cloud-like algae leaves in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica.
The photographer is extremely happy with her annual snorkel on the lake to meet a school of curious European poles. In the past 3 years, he had only discovered dead fish.
Immersed in the surreal scene, she framed the orange-finned fish that flew through clouds of rose-tinted algae. Although it has created a beautiful scene, the excessive expansion of algae, as a result of climate change and warming waters, can cause disruption. for aquatic fauna as it consumes oxygen and blocks sunlight.
Disappearing giraffe, highly recommended, category of Natural Art. The contrast between global and human-based infrastructure in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi National Park.
José Fragozo captures the contrast between global and human herbal infrastructure with this giraffe, overshadowed by the giant pillars of Kenya’s new-gauge railway,
Located on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi National Park is a haven for many species of mammals, birds, reptiles and plants. In 2019, Kenya completed Phase 2A of the so-called Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), building a six-kilometer stretch of railway on 178 piers in the middle of the park. Conservationists and conservationists have warned that the effects of SGR on the park will be devastating.
Nairobi National Park has already been affected by immediate urbanization, infrastructure progression, and the emerging costs of the land around it. This photo shows a giraffe running between the pillars of the railway, as it will most likely feel the noise and vibrations of an oncoming train.
Treefrog Pool Party, highly recommended, category behavior, amphibians and reptiles. An infrequent arrangement. . [ ] frog fury in the Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
Infested with mosquitoes, Güell waded to his chest in the murky water, called a collection of male slippery tree frogs.
At dawn, thousands of women came to the pond to mate and lay their eggs on the protruding palm leaves. Here, men without a partner are looking for female partners.
These impressive occasions of mass reproduction occur only in a few remote locations several times a year. Each female lays about two hundred eggs, creating massive masses of eggs.
Eventually, the tadpoles will fall into the water below.
Dipper Dispute, highly recommended, Bird Behavior Category.
Two divers interact in a hotly contested dispute over a privileged area on a submerged rock.
Divers use “soaked” rocks as a launch pad to detect submerging rivers to hunt ephemerals and friganous larvae and small fish, swallowing small catches when submerged.
Only one day of fishing, Highly recommended, Oceans, Overview Category. A sobering look at the scale of unsustainable fishing in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The photo is sobering about the scale of unsustainable fishing. The photographer was surprised to see so many recently caught billfish and sailboats in one position on a single morning.
To show the scale of the fish market, he used a drone to take the symbol in a straight line.
The sailboat and the marlin are the main oceanic predators essential for ecosystems. Globally, 85% of fish stocks are lately overexploited by humans. Without urgent efforts to protect marine habitats and create sustainable fishing practices, we will soon begin to lose species forever.
Life and death in fur breeding, highly recommended, category of photojournalism. American Mink KitsArray. . [ ] fighting in a small cage at a fur farm in Lindasen, Sweden.
Ten, then 8 mink kittens trapped in a nest box. American mink puppies fight for the area in small cages on a fur farm. For the photographer, it is imperative to document cruelty to bring about change.
On a Swedish mink farm, the signal above a narrow, inhospitable cage that two kittens died.
Due to legislative adjustments since this photo was taken, farms now have larger cages, but the popularity of life remains poor. In 2020, scientists discovered that mink can contract the Covid-19 virus and that it can mutate and transmit humans.
In response, Denmark shut down the industry. In 2022, in Sweden, following a temporary breeding ban, some mink farms were allowed to reopen.
A red deer stands majestically as the snow falls: it had just started snowing when Cox and his father arrived in London’s Richmond Park. They followed the deer from a distance when suddenly the snow intensified and one of the deer stopped. there was a rain of snow,” Cox said.
Richmond Park is home to herds of red deer and deer, which have been roaming freely since 1637. Grazing deer manage the park’s landscape.
The Octopus Case, highly recommended, young photographer of the year, category 15-17 years. One. . . [ ] coconut octopus emerges from its shell in the Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
During one of his dives in the dust, the young photographer saw through a coconut octopus, which peeked out from its shell shelter.
To fire, Sloss reduced the force of his strobe lamp to afflict him. The octopus closed the lid of the shell as it approached, but then slowly opened it, revealing colors and spirals.
The coconut octopus is one of the smartest invertebrates in the world and one of the few sea creatures ever seen with tools. Especially on the sandy slopes of the Lembeh Strait in Sulawes, Indonesia, with few places to hide, it evolved to survive. methods that earned him one of the most inventive animals in the ocean.
This little octopus basically hunts shrimp, crabs, clams and small fish. To protect its comfortable structure when feeding on sand or mud, it hides in various elements, including coconut shells, creating cellular houses that it transports “walking” in two of them. his arms
He can close the shells in the blink of an eye, turning his lair into a very safe fortress.
The Right Look, Highly Recommended, Animal Portraits. The photographer becomes an object of Array. . [ ] fascination with a young whale in Port Ross, Auckland Island, New Zealand.
With the whale investigating it, the photographer’s main challenge was to swim far enough away from the curious calf to photograph it. The encounter lasted 30 minutes, with the whale surrounding it, swimming and then returning to look at it again.
New Zealand’s southern right whale population, called “tohorā” in Maori, hunted almost to extinction in the nineteenth century through European whalers and then through Soviet whalers in the twentieth century.
Now protected, the population has gone from being a small organization of only thirteen breeding women to more than 2000 individuals.
New Zealand’s whales are among the largest and healthiest on the planet. The key to your good fortune is possibly the obvious adaptability of your eating strategies.
Elsewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, the recovery of right-south populations appears to have been affected by warming oceans. South African whales were forced to move their feeding grounds and, as a result, their reproductive good fortune declined.
Burrow Mates, Highly recommended, Animals in its Environment category. An intimate encounter between Array. . [ ] a beetle and a dwarf rabbit near Quincy, Washington, USA
An intimate encounter between a beetle and a rabbit is captured. Heim placed camera traps near the active burrows of dwarf rabbits in the Columbia Basin to practice their movements and captured this moment of interaction when one of the rabbits sniffed a stinky beetle that had taken refuge in its burrow.
These rabbits live in the Columbia Basin, Washington, which has increasingly overgrazed, with vast sections cleared for cultivation. With this small, remote population in danger of extinction, conservationists have stepped in, raising the number to 150 and increasing.
Sloth Dilemma, highly recommended, urban category. An encounter between a sloth and a dog for Array. [ ] Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica
Peaceful encounters between sloths and dogs are not necessarily common. The brown-throated sloth tridactyl from Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica, had already crossed a road and descended from a palm tree, but to succeed in the next group of trees, it had to return to the ground and crawl.
Encountering a large dog, he froze. The dog, which had participated in an educational sloth protection program with the Foundation for the Conservation of Sloths, simply sniffed it. Sloths live in trees and rarely descend to the forest floor. With increased habitat loss and forest fragmentation, they are forced to make vulnerable journeys through urbanized areas. spaces for food, suitable habitats and partners.
Lost Floods, Highly Recommended, Wetlands: Category Overview. They have an effect on drought in Array. [ ] one of the great floodplains of Africa in Zambia.
The effect of drought on the Zambezi floodplain is severe. As the worst drought in 30 years reports, Zambezi River Authority station director Lubinda lubinda sits between his old and new homes on the Barotse floodplain, one of Africa’s wonderful floodplains.
The water, which was intended to reach the bottom of its old area on the left, remained several meters lower than in previous years. Climate change and deforestation mean that the Barotse, other people of the floodplain, are subject to more common droughts.
The diversity depends on normal flooding, as does the way of life of the other barotse villages. The wetland provides other fish, pastures for livestock, fertile soil and plants for thatched roof and the manufacture of items for the family.
The Barotse Floodplain acts like a sponge, structuring much of the Zambezi River basin and offering an indispensable “safety valve” against climate effects, such as droughts and floods, for communities, but also for downstream countries.
With the accumulation of droughts due to global climate change, the long-term ecological service of the Barotse floodplain is slowly disappearing, threatening not only the livelihoods of some 250,000 more people and the economic stability of this part of the world, but also the biodiversity of the region.
A “crime scene” of mining’s invasion of nature is illustrated through the photographer’s flashlight to highlight the effect of coltan mining.
Bright blue, coltan is a component of phone and computer batteries. Here, the photographer surrounds him with mining equipment and remains of animals affected by the industry, all seized at customs: a gorilla skull, vertebrae and bones of porcupine legs and barbs.
Coltan is extracted from the riverbeds of the Democratic Republic of the Congo through low-paid miners who hunt wild animals for food and damage or even destroy forest spaces in search of coltan.
The coltan mining domain includes national parks such as Kahuzi Biega National Park, which is home to the mountain gorilla. In this park alone, the gorilla population has been reduced by almost half. In addition, poverty through the displacement of local human populations through miners has led to the slaughter of gorillas for their meat.
The hunting and wildlife industry threatens the long-term gorillas of the country and increases the threat of virus transmission to humans. When humans make their way through forests to dig up minerals that enter phones, computers, and other devices, they can catalyze a phenomenon called “overflow”: when a virus makes the leap from one species to another. In fact, this overflow is to blame for two-thirds of new infectious diseases, in addition to Covid-19.
Coltan is short for columbite-tantalite, a dull steel ore. Once refined, coltan becomes a heat-resistant powder, steely tantalum, which has houses to store electrical charge.
Coltan is discovered in granitic pegmatites, a bag where molten rock crystallized in depth is discovered. Pegmatites involve many rare metals, as well as massive crystals of some non-unusual minerals.
Coltan is used in many electronic devices around the world due to its unique electrical properties. The two main products are cell phones and laptops, they are also used in other electronic devices.
Coltan is mined by hand with strategies similar to those of gold mining in California in the nineteenth century. Groups of men dig basins in streams scraping the dust from the surface to get coltan underneath. They then “splash” the water into giant tanks, allowing the coltan ore to settle to the rear due to its superior weight.
As part of an interdisciplinary effort by the Leibniz Institute for biodiversity change analysis, measures are being developed to identify and address crimes similar to species coverage.