Masterpieces: winners of 2018 wildlife photography contest announced

Ignorance is over. Finally, the London Natural History Museum has announced the winners of the 2018 wildlife photography contest. It is worth noting that this year there was a particularly large number of truly ingenious works demonstrating the diversity, beauty, strength and vulnerability of life on our planet.

Winning photos were selected from more than 45,000 images sent from 95 countries. The international jury awarded the main prize to the Dutch photographer Marcel van Osten for his Golden Couple photo. The breath-taking picture shows a pair of rhinopithecus in the Qinling mountains of China. These animals are endangered, which makes the frame even more dramatic. "This is a symbolic reminder of the beauty of nature and how much we lose when nature dies."- says Rose Kidman Koz, chairman of the panel of judges. "This work is worthy of hanging in any gallery in the world".

Golden rhinopithecus live only in this part of China, and their number is steadily decreasing. Mainly due to the extinction of the habitat that commercial logging and firewood are destroying.

We offer to look at the works that won in different categories, and the photo that won the Grand Prix.