2019 February Highlights Gallery

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking on Champ Island glacier above the sea, Franz Josef Land

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking on Champ Island glacier above the sea, Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic. Highly commended in Animals in their Enviroment Category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY) Competition. 2018

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Alone, Animal, Animalia, Arctic, Bear, Blue, Carnivora, Carnivore, Colour, Competition Winner, Distant, Endangered Species, European Russia, Franz Josef Land, Glacier, Ice, Mammal, Mammalia, Northwest Federal District, Photography Award, Polar, Polar Bear, Russia, Russian Europe, Solitary, Solitude, Threatened, Ursidae, Ursus, Ursus Labradorensis, Ursus Marinus, Ursus Maritimus, Ursus Polaris, Vertebrate, Vulnerable, Western Russia, Wildlife

Aerial view of a herd of wild White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) running free on Chiefs Island

Aerial view of a herd of wild White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) running free on Chief's Island, Okavango Delta, Botswana. Winner of the Environmental Picture Story Category of the NPPA Best in Photojournalism contest

Aerial View, Africa, Animal, Animalia, Botswana, Ceratotherium, Ceratotherium Simum, Competition Winner, Critically Endangered, Elevated View, Endangered Species, Group, Group Of Animals, Herd, High Angle View, Mammal, Mammalia, Nature, Odd Toed Ungulate, Okavango Delta, Perissodactyla, Photography Award, Rhino, Rhinoceros, Rhinocerotidae, Southern Africa, Square Lipped Rhinoceros, Threatened, Vertebrate, White Rhinoceros, Wildlife

Bush cricket or katydid (Tettigoniidae) with spines, camouflaged amongst moss. Forest

Bush cricket or katydid (Tettigoniidae) with spines, camouflaged amongst moss. Forest interior of mid-altitude montane rainforest, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru

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Amazon, Andes, Animal, Animalia, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Bush Cricket, Bushcricket, Camouflage, Catalogue11, Cloud Forest, Cloudforest, Colour, Defensive Structures, Ensifera, Forest, Green, Hexapod, Hexapoda, Insect, Insecta, Invertebrate, Katydid, Latin America, Longhorned Grasshopper, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Manu National Park, Montane Forest, National Park, Orthoptera, Orthopterida, Peru, Protected Area, Rainforest, Reserve, South America, Spike, Spiked, Spikes, Spikey, Spiky, Spine, Tettigoniidae, Tettigonioidea, Unesco Biosphere Reserve, Wildlife