Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Open to visitors since 1881, the Natural History Museum looks after a world-class collection of 70 million specimens. We are also a leading scientific research institution with ground-breaking projects in about 70 countries. Around 300 scientists work at the Museum, researching the valuable collection to better understand life on Earth, its ecosystems and the threats it faces.

Every year more than three million visitors, of all ages and levels of interest, are welcomed through our doors. They come to enjoy the many galleries and exhibitions, which celebrate the beauty and meaning of the natural world and encourage us all to see the environment around us with new eyes.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is one of the Museum’s most successful and long-running exhibitions. Together with BBC Wildlife Magazine, the Museum has made it the most prestigious, innovative photographic competition of its kind and an international leader in the artistic representation of the natural world.

Last year’s exhibition attracted a record 161,000 visitors, and more than a million others saw the images as they toured venues across the UK and internationally. People come to see the world’s best wildlife photographs, and gain an insight into the diversity of the natural world – an issue at the heart of our work.

For what’s on and more about our work, please visit www.nhm.ac.uk

For more than 40 years, BBC Wildlife Magazine has showcased the wonder and beauty of planet Earth, its animals and wild places - and highlighted its fragility.

By helping our community of more than 300,000 readers to understand, experience and enjoy the wildlife both close to home and abroad, we inspire them to care about the future of the natural world and take action to conserve it.

Every month, BBC Wildlife brings a world of wildlife to people's living rooms. We pride ourselves on our spectacular photography, and for this we rely on the photographers whose brilliance has been celebrated by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition since its launch in 1965.

Each issue includes page after page of beautiful photographs by the award-winning photographers, complete with the wild animals and even wilder stories behind them - and through their eyes we see the world's wildlife in all its glory.

Visit www.bbcwildlifemagazine.com to find out more about BBC Wildlife.