From the glowing Milky Manner above a Montana lake to firework-like flowers within the Brazilian savannah at sundown, the winners of the 2025 World Nature Images Awards spotlight the limitless wonders of our planet. In classes working the gamut of animal portraits, landscapes, city wildlife, and extra, photographers across the globe captured unimaginable views of creature behaviors, terrestrial vistas, and astronomical phenomena.
“The World Nature Photography Awards were founded in the belief that we can all make small efforts to shape the future of our planet in a positive way,” says a press release, “and that photography can influence people to see the world from a different perspective and change their own habits for the good of the planet.”
The 2025 version of the competition noticed 1000’s of entries submitted from 48 international locations. The grand prize went to Maruša Puhek’s daring picture of two deer leaping by means of a winery.
Lots of the successful images spotlight the vulnerability of the earth’s inhabitants and juxtapositions between nature and the human-built setting. In Daniel Flormann’s “Lenuk Tasi,” for instance, a child sea turtle glides simply beneath the floor of the boundless sea, and in Ael Kermarec’s “Reclaim,” a lava stream from an Icelandic volcano utterly engulfs a street.
A few of our different favorites embody Marcio Esteves Cabral’s vista stuffed with uncommon Paepalanthus flowers illuminated by the solar within the Veadeiros Tablelands, Brazil, and Mohammad Murad’s seize of two backlit White-cheeked terns battling over territory on Kubbar Island, Kuwait.
See many extra successful images and buy prints—together with high picks from earlier years’ competitions—within the WNPA retailer.
