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Our Favourite Nature Photographs from 2024
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Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) pregnant females basking to bring young to term, black and yellow colour morphs, Pennsylvania, USA

Rattlesnake Rookeries: The Surprisingly Social Lives of Timber Rattlesnakes
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Juvenile European lobster (Homarus gammarus) on black background, National Lobster Hatchery, Padstow, Cornwall, UK. November.

Hatching Hope: How the UK’s National Lobster Hatchery is helping to save wild lobsters.
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Rylee Jensen, photographer and ambassador for Girls Who Click

The New Age of Women in Wildlife Photography
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African lioness (Panthera leo) walking across savanna at sunset. Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

Girls gone wild!
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Photographer Suzi Eszterhas

Women in the World of Wildlife Photography: Part 1
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Eurasian Griffon Vultures: A rare peek in the nest
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Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) male biting female. Caleta Valdes, Valdes Peninsula, Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina.

Love BITES! An Exploration of Nature’s Least Romantic Species
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Reasons to be Cheerful this January
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Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) browsing on a thorny Acacia bush, Etosha National Park, Namibia. March.

How the Vegans of the Animal Kingdom are Helping to Save the Planet
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People holding signs spelling CO2, representing carbon capture for peatland burial. Sutherland, Scotland, July 2012.

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Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris) detail of scutellum. From a dead specimen found in Nottinghamshire, UK. July. Focus stacked using a x20 microscope objective.

Our Favourite Nature Photographs from 2023
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Portrait of a Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris). UK. Focus stacked image (dead specimen).

In celebration of wasps. Yes, seriously.
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Fragrant Orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea) Sella Massif, Dolomites, Italy, July.

Blame it on Wild Orchids – by Paul Harcourt Davies
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Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) drinking while in flight, UK

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Common blue butterflies (Polyommatus icarus) roosting in morning light, Devon, UK. July.

Top Tips for taking great butterfly photos
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Three adult Meerkats (Suricata suricatta) rear view standing and looking in same direction, and a juvenile, Kalahari Desert, South Africa

Animal Teamwork
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Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) swimming next to freediver, Tubuai, French Polynesia, Pacific Ocean.

“The Day I Danced with Whales…for Four Hours!” By Shane Gross
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Close-up of a Sunflower (Helianthus), Surrey, England, UK, July.

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European badger (Meles meles) walking down garden steps at night, with house in background, Wiltshire, UK, June.

How to photograph garden wildlife with Nick Upton
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