Floris van Breugel / Sand dunes reflecting pink and orange glowing colours from the sky at sunset. Death Valley National Park, California, USA. November 2009. Highly Commended in the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photoga...

Bence Mate / Dying Common frogs (Rana temporaria) with their legs removed for food, left to die in their breeding pool surrounded by frogspawn. Covasna, Romania. Highly commended in the Wildlife Photojournalism Ca...

Jordi Chias / Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) carcass after leopard seal attack, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.

Matthew Maran / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) carrying a large dead Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) in an urban garden, North London, UK. August.

Matthew Maran / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cub defending its kill,a large Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) from another cub, North London, UK. August. Highly commended in the Behaviour : Mammals Category of the Wildlife Ph...

Robert Valentic / Rough-scaled death adder (Acanthophis rugosus) waving tip of tail as a lure to entice prey within striking range. Mount Isa, Queensland Australia.

Alex Mustard / Carapace of a dead olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) entangled in discarded fishing gear. Indian Ocean, off Sri Lanka.

John Chan / Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) plucking Dowitcher (Limnodromus) prey, Southern California, USA.

Jack Dykinga / Bird caught in border wall mesh at the Mexican / United States border, Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona, USA, August.

Nick Hawkins / Fishing ropes wrap around the head and mouth, damaging the baleen of a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Fishing gear entanglem...

Nick Hawkins / Fishing ropes wrap over the blowhole of a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Fishing gear entanglement is a leading cause of dea...

Milan Radisics / Aerial shot zooming out from a dead tree by an artificial lake, polluted by extractive mining operations, Minas de Riotinto, Andalusia, Spain, January 2019.

Milan Radisics / Aerial shot of a dead tree by an artificial lake, polluted by extractive mining operations, Minas de Riotinto, Andalusia, Spain, January 2019.

Milan Radisics / Aerial shot of dead trees encrusted in mud in a dry artificial lake, polluted by extractive mining operations, Minas de Riotinto, Andalusia, Spain, January 2019.

Tui De Roy / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) starved to death due to El Nino effect, Puerto Ayora / Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) male examining dead chick on ice. Atka Bay, Antarctica. August.

Sven Zacek / Honey bee (Apis mellifera), two frozen on pond ice after flying out too early. Valgamaa, Southern Estonia. March.

Pal Hermansen / Golden eagle (Aquila crysaetos) on dead Fox (Vulpes vulpes) carcass. Trondelag, Norway. March. Remote camera shot

Pal Hermansen / Logged forest, aerial view. Akershus, Norway. November 2018.

David Perpinan / Group of Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) fighting to feed on a dead lamb. Cuenca, Spain, August.

David Perpinan / Group of Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) arriving and feeding on a dead lamb, Cuenca, Spain, August.

Suzi Eszterhas / African Lion (Panthera leo) young male feeding on Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) prey, Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa

Kerstin Hinze / Male Common european toad (Bufo bufo) in amplexus with a dead fish, Lower Saxony, Germany, April.

Sergey Gorshkov / Minden / Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) feeding on Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) female in winter, Finland

Tui De Roy / Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) hunting tuna. A group of the sea lion bulls have learnt to herd Pelagic yellowfin tuna into a small cove, trapping them. The fish often leap ashore in an effor...

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Leopard (Panthera pardus) female feeding on sub-adult male Impala (Aepyceros melampus) prey in tree, Greater Makalali Private Game Reserve, South Africa

Sergey Gorshkov / Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) flying with squirrel prey, Finland . March

Sergey Gorshkov / Northern goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) fighting over squirrel carcass, Finland, March.

Lucas Bustamante / Brush footed butterfly (Lycorea sp.) caterpillar with parasitic wasp cocoons on silk threads, Yasuni National Park, Orellana, Ecuador.

Philippe Clement / Lynx (Lynx lynx) feeding on a Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in snow in winter, with juvenile passing by, Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany, January. Captive.

Brian Bevan / Close-up of a group of Wood ants (Formica rufa) carrying a dead insect back to their nest, Bedfordshire, England, UK, August.

Brian Bevan / Close-up of a group of Wood ants (Formica rufa) carrying a dead Common wasp (Vespula vulgaris) back to their nest, Bedfordshire, England, UK, August.

Steve Downer / Black slug (Arion ater agg.) feeding on a dead Yellow slug (Limax flavus), Birmingham, England, UK, August.

Roy Mangersnes / Juvenile female Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) lying down protecting a seal carcass at sunset, Svalbard, Norway, March.

James Dunbar / Male Orb-weaving spider (Araneus) courting a female near a dead fly, Bristol, England, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Common prawns (Palaemon serratus) and a Rock goby (Gobius paganellus) feeding on a dead Montagu's crab (Xantho hydrophilus) in a rockpool, Cornwall, England, UK, September.

Christophe Courteau / Male BurchellÕs zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) pulling the head of a dead pregnant female that died due to complications whilst giving birth, trying to wake her up, Etosha National Park, Namibia. Par...

Frederique Olivier / Hungry Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) chick pecking at a rock before tucking into its parent to keep warm, with a dead chick in the foreground, Antarctica

Frederique Olivier / Close-up of an Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) with a chick begging for food and a dead chick nearby, Antarctica.

Ingo Arndt / Dead trees in Namib desert, Namib Naukluft NP, Namibia

Ingo Arndt / Death's head hawkmoth caterpillar in defence posture {Acherontia atropos} Germany

Jen Guyton / Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) barely alive, with Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) quills through his abdomen. Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Jack Dykinga / Dead Vlei, with dessicated 900 year old trees standing in the salt pan surrounded by towering red sand dunes. Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. June 2013.

Jack Dykinga / Dead Vlei, with dessicated 900 year old trees standing in the salt pan surrounded by towering red sand dunes. Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. June 2013.

Alan Murphy/ BIA / Sanderling (Calidris alba) feeding on crab carcass, Texas

Peter Cairns / Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) feeding on red deer carcass, Assynt, Scotland. Highly commended in the Habitat category of the BWPA (British Wildlife Photography Awards) 2016.

Floris van Breugel / Macro shot of a Breccia in a remote canyon, Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park, California, USA December

Wim van den Heever / A misty sunrise over tree silhouette in Deadvlei, Namibia

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Sand dunes and scattered rocks, Death Valley National Park, California

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) basking on rock next to skeleton of one which starved to death. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguana...

Roy Mangersnes / Dead Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos, April 2016. It probably died of starvation as much of the algae in the region have died off due to un...

Luis Quinta / Body of deep sea squid floating near the surface, with mantle ripped up possibly by cetaceans such as Sperm whales which are present in the region, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, May.

Andres M. Dominguez / False death cap mushroom (Amanita citrina) Los Alcornocales Natural Park, Cortes de la Frontera, Malaga, Spain

Wim van den Heever / Ancient dead Camelthorn tree (Vachellia erioloba) trees with red dunes, Namib desert, Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namibia. August 2015.

Wim van den Heever / Ancient dead Camelthorn tree (Vachellia erioloba) trees with red dunes and mist, Namib desert, Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namibia. August 2015.

Wim van den Heever / Ancient dead Camelthorn trees (Vachellia erioloba) with red dunes, and star trails, Namib desert, Sossusvlei, Namibia. Composite.

Wim van den Heever / Ancient dead Camelthorn trees (Vachellia erioloba) with red dunes and the milky way behind, Namib desert, Sossusvlei, Namibia. Composite.

Wim van den Heever / Ancient dead Camelthorn trees (Vachellia erioloba) at night with red dunes behind. Namib desert, Sossusvlei, Namibia. Composite.

Wim van den Heever / Ancient dead Camelthorn trees (Vachellia erioloba) with sand dunes, Namib desert, Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namibia.

Wim van den Heever / Ancient dead Camelthorn trees (Vachellia erioloba) with sand dunes, Namib desert, Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namibia.

Markus Varesvuo / Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) plucking Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) Kuusamo, Finland, April.

Pedro Narra / Shell of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) outside mud house, Bissagos Islands, Guinea Bissau. Endangered species. 3rd Place in the SOS Especes Menacees / SOS Endangered Species Portfolio category of the...

Jabruson / Mummified infant Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) a relic from research from 1959, amongst old laboratory paraphernalia and assorted zoological specimens. CRSN (Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles...

Juergen Freund / Paralytic tick (Ixodes holocyclus) with engorged body on human hand, this species affects many species, Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) among them and infects them with a toxin that ca...

Dave Watts / Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) swimming in lake, Tasmania, Australia.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga boy peering out of house decorated with buffalo skulls, Konyak Naga headhunting Tribe.Mon district, Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Head-hunted human skulls, collected by the Konyak Naga tribe, North East India, October 2014.

Sven Zacek / American mink (Mustela vison) on ice with Common frog (Rana temporaria) prey, Tartumaa, Estonia, January. Introduced species.

Sven Zacek / American mink (Mustela vison) shaking off fur on ice with Common frog (Rana temporaria) prey, Tartumaa, Estonia, January. Introduced species.

Solvin Zankl / Deepsea Basket star (Gorgonocephalus lamarckii) specimen, from the North Atlantic near Iceland.

Solvin Zankl / Deepsea Viperfish (Chauliodus sloani) specimen from the North Atlantic near the North West of Spain, at a depth of 560-580m.

Solvin Zankl / Deepsea Octopus (Bathypolypus bairdii) specimen from the North Atlantic, near the Faroe Islands at a depth of 805m

Solvin Zankl / Illuminated netdevil (Linophryne arboritera), female specimen, from deepsea Atlantic Ocean near Cape Verde at a depth of 1900m.

Solvin Zankl / Deepsea Isopod (Glyptonotus antarcticus) from Antarctic Ocean at a depth of 231m.

Solvin Zankl / Deep sea squid (Histioteuthis corona) specimen, from deep sea Atlantic Ocean.

Solvin Zankl / Ribbon sawtail fish (Idiacanthus fasciola) from Atlantic Ocean, at a depth of 800-1000m.

Solvin Zankl / Frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) specimen with mouth open, from Atlantic Ocean, at a depth of 729m.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) male juvenile aged about 18 months approaching a kill, wide angle view. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Andy Trowbridge / Female Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) perched on a branch in falling snow, with Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) prey, Norway, January.

Staffan Widstrand / Dead Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) starved to death, Zeipelodden, Svalbard, Norway, September.

Espen Bergersen / Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) flying with guillemot prey. Hornoya bird cliff. Finnmark, Norway. March

Pal Hermansen / Graveyard with white crosses half buried in snow, Svalbard, Norway. March.

Pal Hermansen / Dead, polluted Larch (Larix) forest, with power station behind, Norilsk, Russia.

Cyril Ruoso / Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) scavenging Water buffalo carcass. Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia.

Charlie Summers / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) mother standing grieving over stillborn baby. Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.

Tui De Roy / Dead Sally-lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus) washed up in surf, Puerto Egas, James Bay, Santiago Island, Galapagos, Ecuador, May.

Anup Shah / Lion (Panthera leo) pride feeding on an elephant carcass that has died from natural causes. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) watching over the body of a dead elephant. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd watching over the body of a dead elephant. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Lion (Panthera leo) pride feeding on an elephant carcass that has died from natural causes. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Lion (Panthera leo) pride feeding on an elephant carcass that has died from natural causes. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

David Pattyn / Heathland landscape at sunset, Kampina Nature Reserve, Netherlands. August 2006.

Anup Shah / Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) group feeding on kill, Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / African Lion (Panthera leo) pride feeding on African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) carcass that has died from natural causes, Masai Mara, Kenya

Denis-Huot / Olive baboon (Papio anubis) males fighting over newborn Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) prey, Masai-Mara game reserve, Kenya.

Denis-Huot / Starving group of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) feeding on Zebra, Masai-Mara game reserve, Kenya.