Stunning wildlife photography scoops top prize at Environmental Photography Award

(Image credit: Kathleen Ricker / PA2F)

The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (PA2F) has announced the winners of the inaugural Environmental Photography Award, which was launched to examine the relationship between people and the environment.

To mark its 15th anniversary, the foundation launched the Environmental Photography Award with the theme ‘Humanity and Wildlife: Crossed Destinies, Shared Territories’. An award jury made up of professional photographers and environmental campaigners judged entries in three categories: Incredible Wildlife, Wildlife in Crisis, and Reasons for Hope.

*Incredible Wildlife winner:* Lincoln MacGregor was awarded first place with his image, 'Enchanted Forest', taken in Australia. It is a photo of a wombat, wandering through a forest aglow with the light of bioluminescent mushrooms. Lincoln explains that wildlife in the region experiences this phenomenon only at certain times of the year when ghost fungi glows in the dark. (Image credit: Lincoln MacGregor / PA2F)

Images from category winners and runners-up, as well as the public vote winners and other shortlisted images, will also feature in a PA2F Environmental Photographer of the Year 2021 book. The foundation plans to invite entries to next year’s competition from February 2022. The competition is open to amateur and professional photographers of all nationalities who are over 18. For more details go to the PA2F competition website.

*Wildlife in Crisis, public vote:* Maxime Aliaga's thought-provoking photograph 'Captif' was shot in Malaysia, where young orangutans are often poached from their mothers and sold as pets on the black market. Although it is illegal to hold a wild animal in domestic captivity in Malaysia, Maxime explains that it still “is a mark of richness for some families to have a young orangutan". (Image credit: Maxime Aliaga / PA2F)

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Laurence is an NCTJ-trained journalist with nearly 20 years' editorial experience gained on a wide range of publications, from The Beirut Times in Lebanon to The Sunday Times, and including recent freelance engagements with Future's cycling and automotive portfolios, Outdoor Fitness, and The English Home. He has recently been undertaking a sports broadcast journalism MA at Southampton Solent, gaining valuable TV and radio experience, and am currently videographer for Frome Town FC soccer team. He is the author of Bikepacking (Wild Things Publishing, 2016).

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