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Greg Lecoeur took the grand prize and first place in the action category with this shot of the sardine migration along the wild coast of South Africa. (Photo by Greg Lecoeur/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

Greg Lecoeur took the grand prize and first place in the action category with this shot of the sardine migration along the wild coast of South Africa. (Photo by Greg Lecoeur/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



An enormous cumulonimbus forms during a thunderstorm over the Pacific in an image placed in landscape by Santiago Borja. (Photo by Santiago Borja/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

An enormous cumulonimbus forms during a thunderstorm over the Pacific in an image placed in landscape by Santiago Borja. (Photo by Santiago Borja/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



Michael O’Neill won a prize in animal portraits with fry of a peacock bass hovering around their mother for protection against predators in South Florida. (Photo by Michael Patrick O'Neill/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

Michael O’Neill won a prize in animal portraits with fry of a peacock bass hovering around their mother for protection against predators in South Florida. (Photo by Michael Patrick O'Neill/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



Vadim Balakin won the environmental issues section, with an image of polar bear remains on an island in northern Svalbard, Norway. (Photo by Vadim Balakin/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

Vadim Balakin won the environmental issues section, with an image of polar bear remains on an island in northern Svalbard, Norway. (Photo by Vadim Balakin/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



Great egrets take flight in a swamp in Hunagry in a picture placed in the action category by Zsolt Kudich. (Photo by Zsolt Kudich/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

Great egrets take flight in a swamp in Hunagry in a picture placed in the action category by Zsolt Kudich. (Photo by Zsolt Kudich/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



Chris McCann won a prize in environmental issues for the view of salt mining near the Facebook headquarters in the San Francisco Bay area. (Photo by Chris McCann/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

Chris McCann won a prize in environmental issues for the view of salt mining near the Facebook headquarters in the San Francisco Bay area. (Photo by Chris McCann/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



Green turtles devour the soft tentacles of a jellyfish in a shot from the action section by Scott Portelli. (Photo by Scott Portelli/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

Green turtles devour the soft tentacles of a jellyfish in a shot from the action section by Scott Portelli. (Photo by Scott Portelli/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



A detail of a puffin on Skomer island in Wales won Mario Suarez Porras a prize in animal portraits. (Photo by Mario Suarez Porras/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

A detail of a puffin on Skomer island in Wales won Mario Suarez Porras a prize in animal portraits. (Photo by Mario Suarez Porras/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



A young woman on in beach in Mallorca, Spain, watching a firefighting plane won a honorable mention in environmental issues for Sergej Chursyn. (Photo by Sergej Chursyn/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

A young woman on in beach in Mallorca, Spain, watching a firefighting plane won a honorable mention in environmental issues for Sergej Chursyn. (Photo by Sergej Chursyn/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)



A moody image of a snake in a forest in Amboli, Maharashtra, India, won Varun Aditya first place in animal portraits. (Photo by Varun Aditya/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

A moody image of a snake in a forest in Amboli, Maharashtra, India, won Varun Aditya first place in animal portraits. (Photo by Varun Aditya/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)
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