The international Nature’s Best Photography (NBP) 2024 awards have just announced 11 categories and 100 outstanding photographs. Among them, many wildlife images have made a strong impression on photographers.
The photo was taken by Mangesh Ratnakar Desai at the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India. Photo: Mangesh Ratnakar Desai.
The heron and fish “encounter” captured by Xiaoping Lin at Yundang Lake, Xiamen, Fujian, China. Photo: Xiaoping Lin.
A fight between bald eagles at Hood Canal, Kitsap County, Washington, USA. Photo: Michael Despines.
A moment of a parrot biting a lizard’s tail at Keloadev National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India. Photo: Hira Punjabi.
A cormorant hunting at the Baja California Sur peninsula, Sea of Cortez, Espiritu Santo Archipelago, Los Islotes Rockeries, Mexico. Photo: Franco Banfi.
A curved-billed toucan in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica. Photo: Greg Basco.
A red-throated diver in Suomenniemi, Finland. Photo: Jari Heikkinen.
A great egret at the Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Uncertain, Texas, USA. Photo: Michael Zheng.
A great horned owl or ear owl in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Photo: Isabel Guerra Clark.
A Bengal tiger “hugging a tree” at the Pench Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India. Photo: Krishna Daga.
A rare scene of African lion cubs drinking water at the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana. Photo: Keith Bannerman.
A Masai giraffe cuddling a calf at Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Photo: Thomas Nicholson.
A playful snow moment of a tiger cub at Canada Lynx, Northern Ontario, Canada. Photo: Thomas Vijayan.
A South American tapir under the Olho d’Água River, Jardim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo: Marcio Cabral.
Two puma cubs in Patagonia, Chile. Photo: Ralph Lee Hopkins.
A mother and child Indian pangolin in Matale, Sri Lanka. Photo: Heshan Peiris.
A white rhinoceros and its calf at Solio Game Reserve, Kenya. Photo: Jules Oldroyd.
A Gelada family with a young one at Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. Photo: Marco Gaiotti.
An American bison and its “face-off” at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Photo: Lara Ferraro.
A brown bear hunting at Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA. Photo: Barrett Hedges.
An olive baboon at Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Photo: Steve Mattheis.
The “sweet kiss” of mountain rabbits in the Monadhliath range, Scotland, United Kingdom. Photo: Andy Parkinson.
A bee and butterfly playing with a turtle by Tres Chimbadas Lake, Peru. Photo: Hung Tsui.
A red-billed sparrow perched proudly on the horn of a wildebeest. This moment was captured at Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo: Luisa Pericoli.
An osprey hunting in Oceanport, New Jersey, USA. Photo: William Page Pully.
A spotted leopard and its cub at Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Photo: Daryl Yeo.
An Eurasian otter trapped in a rock crevice at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Photo: Larry Taylor.
A humorous moment in front of the camera captured of an emperor penguin in Antarctica. Photo: Thomas Vijayan.
To capture this photo, photographer Brett Freliche’s fingers and face were frozen due to the extreme cold underwater in Hudson Bay. Photo: Brett Freliche.
A cute scene of a sleeping emperor penguin chick in Atka Bay, Antarctica. Photo: Stefan Christmann.
A leopard seal hunting at Paradise Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula. This is one of the largest seal species in the world, characterized by its spotted coat resembling a leopard’s patterns. Photo: Matty Smith.
Diving with sperm whales in the Caribbean Sea. Photo: Franco Banfi.
A free diver and a silky shark at Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba. Photo: Wayne Lai.
A stonechat perched near a metal gate “playing” the role of a territory protector. Photo: European Stonechat.
A Tule elk caught in barbed wire at Point Reyes National Seashore, California, USA. Photo: Jim Coda.
The rescue of a chimpanzee at the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Marcus Westberg.
Drifting fish among Moon Jellyfish at Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Photo: Michael Patrick O’Neill.
