What's new
Earth Day April 22nd 2018
The theme of this year’s Earth Day is ending plastic pollution. Click here to find out more about Earth Day events. You can also view our new expanded Earth Day gallery of environmental issues and our latest feature story The Plastic Problem.
Meet Nature Picture Library at Fotofringe
We will be at Fotofringe in London on Tuesday April 17th. Don’t miss the picture buying event of the year! Register now to attend at www.fotofringelondon.com and if you would like to fix a time to talk with us, just send us an email.
New Canada lynx images
We are excited to have just received new images from Connor Stefanison which show the elusive Canada lynx in the wild.
World’s loneliest tree records new geological era
Scientists from UCL and University of New South Wales have dated the start of the current Anthropocene era to 1965 through carbon dating a single remote Sitka spruce found on Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean. Find out more.
Nat Geo cover!
We’re thrilled to have our image by Brent Stephenson on the cover of the January issue of National Geographic, which is on sale NOW!
NPL Winners of 2017
Enjoy our new gallery of award-winning images and portfolios from the world’s major nature photography competitions of 2017. Congratulations to all the winning and commended NPL photographers!
Featured Story
Animal Blunders
It’s not just us humans that get things wrong sometimes. Animals can be just as clumsy and accident-prone as we are! Download our full story PDF, including text, here.
Latest Highlights
Best of March 2018!
In our March highlights gallery discover Pallas’s cats from China, wild wolves from Italy, and endangered crocodiles from Cuba, plus a fantastic range of rainforest wildlife, marine and freshwater life.
Supporting Conservation
By licensing images, you can help!
We support conservation by making a quarterly donation from our sales revenue to a charity or specific project which is making a difference. This quarter we are supporting the Hookpod project. We also offer discounted reproduction fees to conservation organisations. Visit our conservation page to find out more.
Photographer of the month
Bernard Castelein
Belgian photographer Bernard Castelein believes passionately in photographing nature close to home, but has also travelled extensively in many regions of the world, and has great coverage on the wildlife, landscapes and peoples of the Andes and Himalayas, India and Madagascar. View our new expanded gallery to find out more…
Book of the month
Close-up and Macro Photography
Robert Thompson's latest book Close-up and Macro Photography is an in-depth guide to the art and field techniques of macro and close-up nature photography. To find out more, check out our gallery of bookplate images…
