Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

**Pink Pose**
*Photographer: Leana Kuster (Switzerland), Location: France*
A greater flamingo balances on one leg while scratching its head.

The winning photographs will be announced on 14 October, followed by an exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. Here are some of the most striking highly commended entries.

**Special Delivery**
*Photographer: Bidyut Kalita*
A red potter wasp appears almost frozen mid-flight, clutching a green caterpillar beneath its body.

**No Place Like Home**
*Photographer: Emmanuel Tardy (France), Location: Costa Rica*
A brown-throated three-toed sloth grips a barbed wire fence post after crossing a road.

**Ice Edge Journey**
*Photographer: Bertie Gregory (UK), Location: Antarctica*
Emperor penguin chicks huddle on the edge of an ice shelf before leaping into the sea.

**Slime Family Portrait**
*Photographer: Kutub Uddin (Bangladesh/UK), Location: West Sussex, UK*
Tiny slime moulds line a mossy log with a yellow insect egg nestled among them.

**Rutting Call**
*Photographer: Jamie Smart (UK), Location: Leicestershire, UK*
A red deer stag bellows in Bradgate Park during the autumn rut.

**Inside the Pack**
*Photographer: Amit Eshel (Israel), Location: Canada*
A pack of Arctic wolves approach in freezing conditions on Ellesmere Island.

**Essence of Kamchatka**
*Photographer: Kesshav Vikram (India), Location: Russia*
A brown bear walks by Kurile Lake with the Iliinsky volcano in the background.

**A Tale of Two Coyotes**
*Photographer: Parham Pourahmad (USA), Location: California, USA*
A male coyote’s amber eye is framed by the tail of a nearby female.

**Deadly Lessons**
*Photographer: Marina Cano (Spain), Location: Kenya*
Young cheetahs practise hunting a Günther’s dik-dik under their mother’s watch.

**Toxic Tip**
*Photographer: Lakshitha Karunarathna (Sri Lanka), Location: Sri Lanka*
An Asian elephant walks through a landfill site near a protected wildlife zone.

**Wake-up Call**
*Photographer: Gabriella Comi (Italy), Location: Tanzania*
A lion faces a cobra in a tense standoff in the Serengeti.

**Jelly Smack Summer**
*Photographer: Ralph Pace (USA), Location: California, USA*
A swarm of Pacific sea nettles drifts underwater with trailing tentacles.

**Nature Reclaims Its Space**
*Photographer: Sitaram Raul (India), Location: India*
Fruit bats emerge from a ruined building in Maharashtra at night.

**Fragile River of Life**
*Photographer: Isaac Szabo (USA), Location: Florida, USA*
A female longnose gar swims with several males as a turtle drifts into view.

**Clouds of Gold**
*Photographer: Jassen Todorov (USA), Location: California, USA*
Golden clouds reflect in the patchwork salt ponds of San Francisco Bay.

Kursiv Uzbekistan also reports that President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has laid the first stone in the foundation of the country’s future National Museum.

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