Winners of the 2024 World Nature Photography Awards (2024)

Third Place, Behavior—Mammals. Elephants reach for branches at Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe. #

© Lukas Walter / World Nature Photography Awards

Second Place, Planet Earth's Landscapes and Environments. Cloud cover above Chile's Villarrica volcano. #

© Francisco Negroni / World Nature Photography Awards

Winner, Behavior—Mammals. A mother zebra and her foal are attacked by a cheetah in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. "That morning, we decided to follow four cheetahs on the hunt. We followed them for hours. We passed herds of topis, gazelles, and zebras. We knew something was going to happen. When, five hours later, our Maasai guide whispered, ‘They are going for the zebras,’ I was convinced they would attack the topis or gazelles dotted across the valley. Seconds later, the cheetahs burst into a small group of zebras. One cheetah ran toward us, clinging onto a foal. In those seconds, I took this picture of the mother zebra launching a last attempt to push her foal away from the attacking cheetah. She failed. I will remember those last seconds for the rest of my life.” #

© Alexander Brackx / World Nature Photography Awards

Winner, Underwater. "A female orca split a herring bait ball while diving through it to get one, shot from underneath while free diving. Every winter, enormous schools of herring migrate from the open ocean into the fjords of northern Norway and attract large numbers of big predators such as orcas and humpback whales." Photographed near Skjervøy, Norway. #

© Andy Schmid / World Nature Photography Awards

Second Place, Nature Art. A stand of aspen trees, seen in Aspen, Colorado. #

© Robert J. Ross / World Nature Photography Awards

Winner, Animals in Their Habitat. A pair of Nubian ibex in the Negev desert in Israel. #

© Amit Eshel / World Nature Photography Awards

Second Place, Animal Portraits. The hands of a mother and infant gorilla, seen in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. #

© Michael Stavrakakis / World Nature Photography Awards

Winner, Planet Earth's Landscapes and Environments. "Winter in Stokksnes, Iceland. The beach with its black sand and the majestic mountain called Vestrahorn—I love the contrast in colors between the white mountains and the black dunes with yellow grass." #

© Ivan Pedretti / World Nature Photography Awards

Third Place, Nature Photojournalism. A binturong is kept in a cage for the production of kopi luwak coffee in Sulawesi, Indonesia. #

© Lennart Stolte / World Nature Photography Awards

Second Place, Black and White. Mother elephant and calf, Amboseli National Park, Kenya. #

© Tom Way / World Nature Photography Awards

Third Place, Animal Portraits. The bloody head of a Himalayan vulture, photographed in Chopta, in Uttarakhand, India. #

© Partha Roy / World Nature Photography Awards

Second Place, Animals in Their Habitat. A Canada lynx leaps through a snowy field. #

© Thomas Vijayan / World Nature Photography Awards

Winner, Plants and Fungi. "Once, a photographer whom I respected, Suchat Chanhomhuan, took me to Doi Hua Mot Mountain, Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary, Tak province, Thailand, to meet a kind of living organism with a strange shape that looked like an owl. The scientific name of this plant is Thismia thaithongiana." #

© Chatree Lertsintanakorn / World Nature Photography Awards

Third Place, People and Nature. A boy chases a swarm of locusts in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. #

© Hira Punjabi / World Nature Photography Awards

Second Place, Urban Wildlife. A fox walks among broken bricks in Lucerne, Switzerland. #

© Roman Willi / World Nature Photography Awards

Third Place, Black and White. An osprey catches two fish in Kangasala, Finland. #

© Tom Nickels / World Nature Photography Awards