Winners were announced this week, with South African photographer Wim van den Heever claiming the top prize. A ghostly shot of a rare hyena visiting the skeletal remains of a long-abandoned diamond mining town in Kolmanskop, Namibia, has won the best image in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. She added: “I also love the twist on this interpretation of ‘urban’ – it was once but is no longer a human-dominated environment. An exhibition of the winning images launches on Friday 17th October at the Natural History Museum. Winning shots: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025