The Nature Conservancy has unveiled the winners of its latest contest with Li Ping of China winning the Grand Prize. Here is a breathtaking selection of photographs from the landscape, plants and fungi categories.
‘Breastfeeding in town’. A female polar bear breastfeeding her two cubs of the year in the harbour of the abandoned Russian settlement, Pyramiden. Often the bears here roam into the human infrastructure left behind with all sort of pollutants. Celebrity Judge Coyote Peterson’s Winner. © Florian Ledoux/TNC Photo Contest
‘Reflection’. The mist slowly thinned giving a glimpse of the trees on the other side, I grabbed my tripod to set up this shot. © Effy Varley/TNC Photo Contest ‘Soaptree Yucca’. Soaptree Yucca in White Sands National Park, New Mexico. © Xiaoling Keller/TNC Photo Contest ‘Ancient’. An old tree of Madeira Island light painted in a foggy evening. This forest grows in a high part of the island and has some amazing mossy trees. © Cristiano Xavier/TNC Photo Contest