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Ghostly Shot of Hyena Wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award
- On October 14, 2025, South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever won the grand prize for `Ghost Town Visitor`, showing a rare brown hyena in Kolmanskop, Namibia.
- The photograph frames wildlife reclaiming abandoned human spaces in Kolmanskop, Namibia, with jury members describing it as a layered story of loss, resilience, and a new urban twist.
- Using a camera trap, Wim van den Heever captured the image after spotting fresh hyena tracks and pursuing the animal for ten years.
- On Friday , the exhibition opening at the Natural History Museum, London will run until July 12 next year and then tour UK and internationally to inspire millions.
- The competition, run by the Natural History Museum, received a record-breaking 60,636 entries from 110 countries this year, with winners including Fernando Faciole and Andrea Dominizi.
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And the winning Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 image was taken with... an eleven-year-old Nikon DSLR
The winners of the Wildlife Photographer of The Year competition 2025 have been unveiled, and once again, it’s a set of incredible images. And despite leading brands investing in mirrorless cameras, DSLRs remain a popular choice among the contest's entrants.
The snapshots of rattlesnake caught in Texas and the tiny embryo of an African white rhinoceros have led Spanish photographers Javier Aznar González de Rueda and Jon Andoni Juárez to be among the winners of the prestigious photography awards organized by the Museum of Natural History in London. The main recognition fell to South African photographer Wim van den Heeverr for his snapshot ‘Visitor of a ghost town’ in which a brown hyena, the rarest…
South African photographer Wim van den Heever was awarded the prestigious London Museum of Natural History award on the evening of October 14.
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