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🌱 Protecting biodiversity is essential for sustainable cities & communities. With 5 years left to meet the #GlobalGoals and the targets of the #KMGBF, we must pursue these universal agendas together to achieve harmony with nature and sustainable development. #BiodiversityDay

Have you chosen your winner? 📸 The 25 shortlisted photographs for this year’s People’s Choice Award convey the beauty of the natural world and the challenges it faces. Let us know which one is your favourite. ⬇️ Voting closes on 29 January 2025: brnw.ch/21wPMTG

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Happy New Year from all of us at Wildlife Photographer of the Year! 🥳 We’re so excited to kickstart what we’re sure will be another brilliant year for nature photography, helping to boost the call for further conservation and climate action efforts to protect our planet.

Say hello to this year’s #WPY60 photographers! Could you be our next adult or young Wildlife Photographer of the Year? Submit your photos to #WPY61 now: brnw.ch/21wOzjI

The Oceans – The Bigger Picture winner is Justin Gilligan (Australia), showing a stark mosaic of 403 plastic pieces from the digestive tract of a dead flesh-footed shearwater. Studies found that three quarters of these birds breeding on Lord Howe Island contained plastic. #WPY60

A combination of orographic clouds and the setting sun creates the illusion of flames on the Meili Snow Mountains in China.

Foods and what body parts they support 🥗💊

All creatures take from nature, we’re not unique in that respect. But we have taken more than our share by a lot. We need to be mindful of our impact on what makes Earth habitable.

🐸: Do I look like a fan of this crap???

I hate spiders but this little guy is talented 🕷️

A newly discovered mushroom from Taiwan. (Mycena subcyanocephala)

We know it is still possible to make the 1.5° limit a reality. It requires tearing out the poisoned root of the climate crisis: fossil fuels. And it demands a just, equitable renewables transition.

Thanks to @atlanticdash for excellent After Dinner speech on Rowing Atlantic in 45 days. Superb. @BarryCWAC

Hey gorgeous people. I’m still trying to do my bit for corporate sponsorship on this amazing row. • With Parkinson’s, combat stress and PTSD charities directly benefiting. I’m keen to get local companies on... facebook.com/11290219544084…

"We are doing this for the Animals & mens mental health, if you’d like to donate that would be much appreciated.......Thank you all." Great words back from a very happy Mathew, to donate and help the cause click the link below to donate. monkeyfistadventures.com/charity/

Thanks to @atlanticdash for the incredible talk to the Lads&Dads group tonight . Gritty, inspiring, thought provoking and vulnerable. Massive good luck with @_monkeyfist in May!