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ITAR-TASS Photo Agency / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo

World Wildlife Day 2017

Discover the best and freshest wildlife imagery in our collection! Today is , so there’s no better time to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals.

The theme for this year’s competition is ‘.  Nearly a quarter of the world’s population is aged between 10 and 24, and in future years this generation will become the leaders and decision makers in an ever-changing world. The competition is calling out for people to do one thing today to help protect the world’s wildlife for future generations.

As a picture researcher, I’ve seen an incredible range of wildlife photography come into the 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß library, including some of the most endangered, rare and vulnerable species in the natural world. I’ve hand-picked 17 images to showcase the best of our wildlife imagery from the land, sea and sky…

Giant panda eating bamboo Sichuan China
Steve Bloom Images / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Adam Suto / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) walking in snow
SuperStock / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Immature male orangutan drinking Borneo
Steve Bloom Images / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Canada, Nunavut Territory, Repulse Bay, Polar Bear Cub (Ursus maritimus) beneath mother while standing on sea ice near Harbour I
Paul Souders / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Monarch Butterfly migration to Mexico.. Image shot 2013. Exact date unknown.
Denise Campbell / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
A hippopotamus swimming with just head and ears above water in he Kazinga Channel in Uganda.
Mint Images Limited / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Royal Bengal Tiger - India
Sriram Sharma / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Whale Shark underwater
RooM the Agency / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Plains Bison, on the Canadian Prairie, Manitoba, Canada.
Ken Gillespie Photography / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) preening IUCN Critically Endangered captive.
Nature Picture Library / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Great white shark (Carchardon carcharias) breaching on seal decoy at dawn, False Bay, South Africa
Nature Picture Library / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
A Pair of Rhinos Against a Black Background
Abeselom Zerit / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador
Minden Pictures / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) female 'Malui' walking through a cloud of butterflies she has disturbed in Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.
Nature Picture Library / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Sumatra, Indonesia. 12th Nov, 2015. A Sumatran elephant newborn calf, named the Eropa, aged three months, standing next to his mother, Olive, 19 years of age are trained to patrol the forest Tangkahan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, November 12, 2015. A total
Ivan Damanik / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo
Adult Southern rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome in the rookery Falkland islands
Giedrius Stakauskas / 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Stock Photo

 

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