Grand prize winner: environmental photographer of the year 2023; also 1st place in the humanity v nature category; and winner of the 2023 public award. Lopé national park, Gabon, 2021. An angry elephant tries to defend itself after it was hit by a train that crosses paths the animals use within Lopé national park. Park officials decided the elephant was too severely injured to be saved. After it was killed, the park director distributed the meat to local people. As the forest loses its carrying capacity to sustain its megafauna, this kind of human-wildlife conflict is increasing. (Photo by Jasper Doest/Environmental Photography Award)

As if pulled from a Disney film, a fox is mesmerised by a butterfly hovering in front of its nose in a field in Taplow, Berkshire, South East England in the second decade of July 2023. (Photo by Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency)

A Kashmiri Shiite Muslim mourns as he flagellates himself during a Muharram procession in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, July 27, 2023. Muharram is a month of mourning for Shiite Muslims in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)

Sir Argus, centre, with Brian Hayes up, jumps the first during the Guinness Beginners Steeplechase, alongside eventual winner Mars Harper, right, with Sam Ewing up, during day four of the Galway Races Summer Festival at Ballybrit Racecourse in Galway, Ireland on August 3, 2023. (Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile)

USA's Tara Davis-Woodhall reacts as she competes in the women's long jump final during the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on August 20, 2023.. (Photo by Marton Monus/Reuters)

A masked dancer performs as part of “Devi Pyankha” (Devi Dance) to mark the beginning of the Indra Jatra Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 15, 2021. Nepali celebrate the Indra Jatra festival to worship “Indra”, the god of rain and to mark the end of monsoon season. (Photo by Sunil Sharma/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Dinosaur mockups are installed in Danghangpo, Goseong, some 466km southeast of Seoul, South Korea, 06 September 2021, 25 days ahead of the Gyeongnam Goseong Dinosaur World Expo 2021 set for 01 October until 07 November. Goseong is one of the world's three largest fossilized dinosaur footprint sites, along with Colorado in the United States and the west coast of Argentina. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)

British singer and songwriter Ella McMahon, better known by her stage name Ella Eyre performs on stage at SWG3 on October 20, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns)