The Natural History Museum in London invites people to vote for their favourite image to win this year’s people’s choice award. Twenty-five incredible images have been shortlisted
to win this year’s people’s choice award. Twenty-five incredible images have been shortlisted highlighting important nature stories from around the world.Voting ends 2 February. The top five images will be displayed online and join winners of the 58th competition chosen by a panel of judges. The winner will be showcased at the museum until 2 July
Eladio set out to highlight the plight of the endangered American eel. Caught in its juvenile stage, as glass eels, it is exported in the millions each year to Asia. On the coast of the Dominican Republic, over five months, hundreds of fishers gather from dawn to dusk to catch the little eels. These larvae have migrated from the Sargasso Sea, where the adult eels spawn. The US fishery is now tightly controlled, leaving the Caribbean to export without regulations.
Hanging in a shed, this stuffed cat skin may at first appear as inconsequential as the other objects, but the colourful yarns tied to it reveal it is not a disused item. The relationship between the Andean cat and its human neighbours is complex. The cats are celebrated as mountain guardians and also considered good luck for the fertility of livestock. For this they are killed and sometimes worn during ceremonies to induce an abundant year.
The spectacle of two female muskoxen attacking each other surprised Miquel. For four days, he had been following a muskox family in Norway’s Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella national park – a male, a female and three calves. On a high plateau, another similar-sized family of muskox appeared. Expecting a male head to head , he was disappointed when the two males came to an understanding and the weaker one backed off.
This leopardess had killed a monkey in Zambia’s South Luangwa national park. The monkey’s baby was still alive and clinging to its mother. Igor watched as the predator walked calmly back to her own cub, who played with the baby monkey for more than an hour before killing it, almost as if it has been given live prey as a hunting lessonHeads or tails? by Jodi Frediani, US
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