27/05/2026
Wildlife Photographer of the Year made a special post for this year, and we are positively chuffed 🥹🥹🥹🥹
It means so so much that so so many people decided to help us celebrate and suppport otter conservation.
THANK YOU 🥰🦦❤️
From the original post:
🦦 The biggest otter of them all, the giant river otter, was captured by Charlie Hamilton James.
While making a film about giant otters in Cocha Salvador, Manu National Park, Peru, Charlie got to know this youngster well. “He was full of personality,” says Charlie. “These animals have a lot of attitude.”
The portrait of the four-month-old cub was taken lying down in his boat, and the cub was as curious about Charlie as Charlie was about him, craning up its neck while treading water.
Charlie’s image ‘Treading Water’ was commended in the Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Species category in .
🦦 Fred Začek’s image captured as he lay on his stomach on a river ice. It was the first time he had seen an otter. It kept diving and resurfacing with frogs, and each time it went back in Fred slid closer across the ice. “The sound of the otter’s sharp teeth chewing through a frog as if it was a sandwich was unforgettable,” he says.
Fred’s image ‘Cold Catch’ was a finalist in the 10 Years and Under category of .
🦦 Tan Yong Lin’s beautiful image frames the underwater choreography of an otter and its prey.
Yong Lin watched from a bridge in Singapore as, encircled by swirls of ripples and fleeing fish, the sleek form of a smooth-coated otter twisted and curved in pursuit of its prey. Fascinated by the colour tones and whirl of shapes, he framed the shallow-water scene.
Yong Lin’s image ‘Smooth Mover’ was highly commended in the Natural Artistry category of .
See more incredible images of the natural world in the exhibition, open now at the Natural History Museum in London.
Book your tickets: https://brnw.ch/21x2Np3
