Juergen Freund / Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) split level view, Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua, Indonesia. Second Place in the Portfolio Award of the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards Competition 2015.

Espen Bergersen / Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) rear view lying down, resting at sunset, Svalbard, Norway. April.

Bruno D'Amicis / Desert monitor (Varanus griseus) moving across sand dunes, showing characteristic tracks, in the Sahara, Tunisia.

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) Sultan tied up in front of a tourist shop in the souk, Douz, Kebili Governorate. Tunisia. Unwittingly, tourists support the capture of fennec fox cubs from the wild by payi...

Juan Manuel Borrero / Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) captive, occurs in South America.

Staffan Widstrand / Atlantic Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) at surface, Svalbard, Norway, Arctic, September

Danny Green / Snow monkey (Macaca fuscata) close up with eyes cast down, Nagano, Japan, February

Danny Green / Coastal brown bear (Ursus arctos) resting, Lake Clarke National Park, Alaska, September.

Cyril Ruoso / Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) resting, captive at Singapore Zoo. Non-ex

Erlend Haarberg / Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) cub sitting,rear view, Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway, July.

Theo Webb / Female Bonobo (Pan paniscus) resting, Max Planck research site LuiKotale in Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Andy Rouse / Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) Chengdu, China. Endangered species, captive.