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Record 60,636 Entries: 2025 Wildlife Photography Winners Announced

10/17/2025

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Wim van den Heever, a South African photographer, won the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year grand prize for a brown hyena image in Kolmanskop.
Andrea Dominizi, an Italian photographer, won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year for a longhorn beetle among abandoned logging machinery in Italy.
The 2025 competition drew a record 60,636 entries.
Winning images will be exhibited at Natural History Museum, London, from October 17, 2025.

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Wim van den Heever, a South African photographer, won the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year grand prize for a brown hyena image in Kolmanskop.
Andrea Dominizi, an Italian photographer, won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year for a longhorn beetle among abandoned logging machinery in Italy.
The 2025 competition drew a record 60,636 entries.
Winning images will be exhibited at Natural History Museum, London, from October 17, 2025.