The Nature Conservancy declared the winners of its annual picture contest on September 29.
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This calendar year's profitable pictures showcase the extensive range of daily life and landscapes on Earth.
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Photographer Li Ping won the Grand Prize, working with a drone to capture this photograph of a highway slicing across tree-formed gullies in Tibet.
Li Ping/Courtesy TNC Picture Contest 2022
Other pictures capture animals in the wild — like this pair of lions rubbing heads. The just one on the proper is plainly older than the left lion.
These giraffes appear like they're becoming helpful or passionate, but necking, or swinging their heads and necks into just about every other, is actually how they fight.
These eagles had been combating, way too — over a piece of salmon, in accordance to the photographer.
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This elephant seal had to combat off a striated caracara that was hoping to attack her calf.
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One more photograph exhibits employees at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy dashing to treat a wounded elephant calf, though sedating its mother so they can do so safely and securely.
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Animals aren't the only types who can be dramatic. Lightning struck this mountain at just the suitable moment.
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A layer of fog gave an eerie glow to this mangrove tree in Lamongan, East Java.
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Fog also made this scene glimpse peaceful, as the mist thinned previously mentioned a glassy lake and distant snowy trees.
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Snowy mountains stand in stark contrast against a black sand beach front in Iceland.
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Fireflies in Japan generate distinction, standing out as circles of dazzling yellow mild against the darkish forest.
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An additional shiny pop of color, in one more forest, will come from bioluminescent Omphalotus Nidiformis, nicknamed 'ghost mushrooms.'
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Other shots capture humans' influence on nature, like this factory crafted on the edge of a beach in Greece.
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People have also modified the landscape with wastewater ponds like these.
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A extra colorful signal of human existence is these pink lagoons near a salt mine.
Nick Leopold Sordo/Courtesy TNC Photograph Contest 2022
A burn up scar, filled with charred trees, lies in the wake of the Dixie Fire — California's premier single wildfire.
Jassen Todorov/Courtesy TNC Image Contest 2022
Additional north, alongside the Oregon coast, fog pours into a normal hole in the rock, identified as the Drainpipe of the Pacific.
Tom Fenske/Courtesy TNC Picture Contest 2022
These dragon blood trees only increase in the higher plateaus of Socotra Island, in the Indian Ocean.
Cristiano Xavier/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022
