Images capturing a hungry lion, fighting the bison and the vipers’ pit honored in environmental photography prices
Breathtaking images capturing the natural world, including an aging captive lion as well as an elephant waddling through plastic, were revealed as the winners and finalists of Prince Albert II of the Prix of Environmental Photography of the Monaco Foundation.
The annual photography competition is divided into five categories: polar wonders, in the forest, the oceanic worlds, humanity against nature and manufacturers of changes: reasons of hope.
A marine worm plan pushing sand plumes from the top of their cone -shaped burrows, captured by Angel In Spain in 2023, won the Ocean Worlds category and the Grand Prix, the Foundation announced on Tuesday May 6.
“These worms Fouis play a central role in maintaining the circulation of oxygen and nutrients in the upper layer of sediment on the seabed, an activity that generates an entire ecosystem hidden under the substrate,” said Fitor a declaration. “On the spot, it was impossible to predict when the worms would be active. This photo is the result of two months of work, with twenty dives of five hours each.”
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The finalists of this category included an image of a tiny octopus delicately balanced on jellyfish animals named Salpus, broken in the Philippines in 2024 by Pietro trainedand a strange image of a leafy sea dragon off the Australian coast, photographed by Daniel Sly in 2024.
The winning image in the Polar Wonders category was a spectacular blow as a lion’s mane jelly. The photo was taken off the coast of Greenland in 2019 by Galice Hoarau. “Autumn in the fjords of eastern Greenland is full of life, in particular planktonic species ranging from the tiny copépods to the big jellyfish like the mane jellyfish of this lion (Cyanea Capillata) with its long spicy tentacles deriving elegantly in water, “said Hoarau in the statement.
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A founding iceberg deriving in the waters off Iceland, taken by Michaël Arzur in 2024, and a battle between two muscic oxen (Moschatus ovibos) in Norway, broken by Miquel Angel Artús Illana In 2021, finalists were appointed in this category.
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A photo capturing a fierce fight between two colleagues of male deer, taken by Iacopo Nerozzi In Italy in 2022, won the forest category.
“During the primers season, male beetles (Lucan Deer) Go a frenzy, with animated but harmless clashes statement.
David HerasimtschukImage of an adult and several juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), taken in the northwest of the American Pacific in 2023, and Santiago J. Monroy GarciaPhotography of an Andean bear (Tremarctos ornament) Hiding in the Colombian forest, captured in 2023, were named finalists.
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In the humanity category against nature, the winner was a photo taken by Amy Jones in 2023. He showed an elderly Indo-Chinese tiger (Panthera Tigris Corbetti) Named Salamas on a tiger farm in northern Thailand. “For more than 20 years, it has been confined in this cage and used as a breeding machine, producing cubs of industries ranging from tiger tourism to illegal trade of skins, teeth, bone, claws and meat,” said Jones in the statement. “Despite her fragile and emaciated state, Salamas survived the 12 -hour trip to their 17 -acres sanctuary forest, where she was able to wander freely and feel grass under her legs and the heat of the sun on her fur for the first time in two decades. Unfortunately, the Salamas died nine months after being saved.”
An image of an Asian elephant (Larger elephant) wade through a plastic waste soup in Sri Lanka, taken by Lakshitha Karunarathna In 2023, and a photo of bell snakes stacked in a pit in Texas, taken by Javier Aznar in 2020, were the finalists.
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The winner of the Change Makers category: Reasons for Hope was the image of a Dogue Mer Babiner (Caretta Caretta) This FITOR hosted a recovery center in Spain in 2022. The finalists were two images of Armadillos and Antilles rehabilitated, both per Fernando Faciole.
The facial image of a South American tapir (Terrestrial tapirus) The recovery of serious injuries to burns in Brazil in 2024 won the public prize, while the Winner of the Student Choice Award was the photograph of Bambang Wirawan of a Sumatra tiger (Panthera Tiger Sumatrae) In Indonesia, photographed from the interior of the bloody rib of its prey.
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“The images cause a conversation and a consideration of how we can protect and enhance these irreplaceable environments through the planet. They cut apathy, capture reality, evoke empathy and light the action,” Love vitalA photographer of the National Geographic and documentary filmmaker and president of the Prize jury, said in the press release. “Thanks to this visual support, we reconnect people with nature, highlighting not only the perils but also the promise and the hope that exists all around us.”
