Nature Picture Library has teamed up with the Earth Project to organise the COP26 Countdown photo competition. 26 NPL photographers each selected 3 images which best encapsulate the issues surrounding COP26 and the climate and nature crisis. This gallery shows the full set of 78 images used in the series of three COP26 Countdown photo competition galleries. The 3 winning images were announced on 6th November and occupy the first 3 places in this gallery. Read all about it on our blog.
Wild Shots Outreach / South Africa has the largest population of rhino in the world - however, there has been a catastrophic decline in their numbers due to poaching. Desperate times call for desperate measures and dehorni...
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Doug Gimesy / Little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor), two standing on rocks at night, silhouetted against Melbourne city lights. St Kilda breakwater, Victoria, Australia. December 2016. COP26 Countdown Photo Competi...
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Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / One piglet from a large litter looks around her small crate as her mother lies immobile beside her. Sows are kept in gestation crates and then farrowing crates in industrial farms, which is the standa...
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Edwin Giesbers / Two Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on iceberg, Antarctica. COP26 Countdown Photo Competition 2021 Finalist.
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Roy Mangersnes / Melting ice sheet with massive waterfalls running off the Austfonna glacier, the third largest glacier in the world covering most of Nordaustlandet island, eastern Svalbard, Norway. ~Winner of True...
Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf 'Tahafa' male with injured pectoral fin and scarred body, with mother. Vava'u, Tonga, Pacific Ocean. COP26 Countdown Photo Competition 2021 Finalist.
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Nick Garbutt / Light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) flying over Fortuna Glacier with rainbow, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia. (digitally stitched image) similar to 01296715
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Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / A mother Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) and her joey, surrounded by burnt trees. Survivors of a bushfire in Mallacoota, Australia, January 2020. COP26 Countdown Photo Competition 2021 Fina...
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Michel Roggo / Gornerglacier (or Gornergletscher) near Zermatt, at an altitude of about 2,500 meters at the glacier terminus. This lower part of the glacier will melt away in a few years. Since 2007, the glacier has...
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Michel Roggo / Dugdale Glacier with meltwater draining from the Admiralty Mountains into Robertson Bay, North Victoria Land, Antarctica. Aerial shot from helicopter, February 2017. Photographed for The Freshwater Pr...
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Michel Roggo / Aerial view of the front of the Sermeq Kujalleq Glacier, Greenland, entering the Kangia Ilulissat Icefjord full of icebergs. The icebergs are produced by the Sermeq Kujalleq Glacier, one of the fastes...
