'Forest Guard' by Bambang Wirawan, winner of the Students' Choice Award. (Image credit: Bambang Wirawan)
Stunning photographs capturing nature, including an ageing lion in captivity and an elephant wading through plastic, have been named winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Environmental Photography Competition 2025.
Each year, the photo competition is held in five categories: Polar Wonders, Into the Woods, Ocean Worlds, Man vs. Nature, and Change Makers: Reasons for Hope.
The foundation announced on Tuesday (May 6) the winner of the Ocean Worlds category and the competition's top prize, a work made in Spain in 2023 that depicts marine worms pushing out columns of sand from their cone-shaped burrows.
“These burrowing worms play an important role in maintaining the circulation of oxygen and nutrients in the upper layer of the seabed, creating an entire ecosystem hidden beneath the substrate,” Fitor said in a statement. “It was impossible to predict when the worms would be active during the survey. This photograph is the result of two months of work with twenty dives of five hours each.”
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(Image credit: Angel Fitor)
“Invisible Unsung Heroes” by Angel Fitor, winner of the overall and Ocean Worlds category.
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