Winning image for the?野性生物 Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award is 宣言するd. Find out if YOUR favourite （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the 栄冠を与える...

By Katrina Conaglen

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A dreamy image of a polar 耐える drifting to sleep on a ‘bed’ carved into an iceberg has been 投票（する）d the 勝利者 of the 野性生物 Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award?(WPY).?

It was taken by British?amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani while 調査するing Norway’s Svalbard 群島 on an 探検隊／遠征隊 ship. He （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 four 高度に commended finalists to （人命などを）奪う，主張する the 栄冠を与える.?

The 25 images in the running for this year's People’s Choice Award received a 記録，記録的な／記録する number of 投票（する）s, with over 75,000 野性生物 photography and nature fans from around the world casting their 投票（する）s to 指名する Nima this year’s 勝利者.?

Nima 逮捕（する）d his remarkable picture - called 'Ice Bed' - after three days searching for polar 耐えるs in 厚い 霧. The 探検隊／遠征隊 大型船 he was on decided to change course and 長，率いるd に向かって an area of sea ice. Here they 遭遇（する）d two polar 耐えるs.

Just before midnight, the young male clambered の上に a small iceberg and, using his strong paws, clawed away at it to carve out a bed for himself. Nima 逮捕（する）d the dreamlike moment the young 耐える drifted off to sleep.?

This dreamy image of a polar bear drifting to sleep on a ‘bed’ carved into an ic eberg has been voted the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award (WPY). It was taken by British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani while exploring Norway’s Svalbard archipelago on an expedition ship

This dreamy image of a polar 耐える drifting to sleep on a ‘bed’ carved into an iceberg has been 投票（する）d the 勝利者 of the 野性生物 Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award (WPY). It was taken by British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani while 調査するing Norway’s Svalbard 群島 on an 探検隊／遠征隊 ship?

Mark Boyd's highly commended 'Shared Parenting' photo shows a pair of lionesses devotedly grooming a cub in Kenya's Maasai Mara

示す Boyd's 高度に commended '株d Parenting' photo shows a pair of lionesses devotedly grooming a cub in Kenya's Maasai Mara

For 'Aurora Jellies', highly commended finalist Audun Rikardsen photographed two moon jellyfish in the cool autumnal waters of a fjord outside Troms? in northern Norway, illuminated by the aurora borealis

For 'Aurora Jellies', 高度に commended finalist Audun Rikardsen photographed two moon jellyfish in the 冷静な／正味の autumnal waters of a fjord outside Troms? in northern Norway, illuminated by the aurora borealis?

Director of the Natural History Museum, Dr Douglas Gurr, said: 'Nima's breathtaking and poignant image 許すs us to see the beauty and fragility of our 惑星. His thought-刺激するing image is a stark 思い出の品 of the integral 社債 between an animal and its habitat and serves as a visual 代表 of the detrimental 衝撃s of 気候 warming and habitat loss.'?

Nima says: 'I am so honoured to have won this year's Pe ople's Choice award for WPY, the most prestigious 野性生物 photography 競争. This photograph has stirred strong emotions in many of those who have seen it.?

'Whilst 気候 change is the biggest challenge we 直面する, I hope that this photograph also 奮起させるs hope - there is still time to 直す／買収する，八百長をする the mess we have 原因（となる）d.'

The work of the four other finalists spanned the globe to 描写する nature at its most miraculous.

示す Boyd, from Kenya, submitted '株d Parenting'. It shows a pair of lionesses devotedly grooming one of the pride's five cubs in Kenya's Maasai Mara.?

'The Happy Turtle', by finalist Tzahi Finkelstein from Israel, shows a Balkan pond turtle sharing a moment of fascinating peaceful coexistence with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in Israel's Jezreel Valley

'The Happy 海がめ', by finalist Tzahi Finkelstein from イスラエル, shows a Balkan pond 海がめ 株ing a moment of fascinating 平和共存 with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in イスラエル's Jezreel Valley?

Highly commended 'Starling Murmuration' by Daniel Dencescu shows a mesmerising mass of starlings swirling into the shape of a giant bird on their way to communal roosts above Rome, Italy

高度に commended 'Starling Murmuration' by Daniel Dencescu shows a mesmerising 集まり of starlings 渦巻くing into the 形態／調整 of a 巨大（な） bird on their way to communal roosts above Rome, Italy?

For 'Aurora Jellies', finalist Audun Rikardsen, from Norway, photographed two moon jellyfish in the 冷静な／正味の autumnal waters of a fjord outside Troms? in northern Norway, illuminated by the aurora borealis. It's ありふれた for this 種類 to gather in their hundreds under the Northern Lights.

'The Happy 海がめ', by finalist Tzahi Finkelstein from イスラエル, shows a Balkan pond 海がめ 株ing a moment of fascinating 平和共存 with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in イスラエル's Jezreel Valley.

'Starling Murmuration', 一方／合間, by Daniel Dencescu shows a mesmerising 集まり of starlings 渦巻くing into the 形態／調整 of a 巨大（な） bird on their way to communal roosts above Rome, Italy.

野性生物 Photographer of the year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. Images entered into the 60th 競争 are 現在／一般に 存在 裁判官d by an international パネル盤 of 専門家s.?

The 勝利者s will be 発表するd at the next 年次の awards 儀式, which takes place in South Kensington in October 2024.

訪問者s can see the 野性生物 Photographer of the Year 展示 until 30 June, 2024, at the Natural History Museum.

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