Explore the Best of 2025 selection from the Pangolin Photo Challenge. This collection highlights exceptional wildlife and nature photography, celebrating creativity, technical excellence, and powerful storytelling as photographers capture unforgettable moments from the natural world.
Explore the winning, runner-up and highly commended images from the Monochrome Wildlife category in the Pangolin Photo Challenge 2025. These powerful black-and-white wildlife photographs highlight texture, contrast and form, demonstrating how removing colour can emphasise mood, behaviour and artistic composition as photographers capture striking moments from the natural world.
Explore the winning, runner-up and highly commended photographs from the Water as an Element category in the Pangolin Photo Challenge 2025. For this category, water had to play a central role in the scene as a habitat, a hunting ground, a place to play, or simply to reflect.
Pangolin Africa is proud to celebrate a significant milestone for pangolin conservation in South Africa — the handover of a brand-new Toyota Hilux 4x4 to the Kalahari Wildlife Project, made possible by the collective generosity of over 5,000 Pangolin Photo Challenge participants worldwide.
Discover the winning, runner-up, and highly commended photographs from the Mammal Behaviour category in the Pangolin Photo Challenge 2025. These powerful wildlife images highlight fascinating behavioural moments, from dramatic interactions to intimate natural scenes, captured by photographers who skilfully document the lives, movements, and personalities of mammals in the wild.
Explore the winning, runner-up and highly commended photographs from the Out of Africa category in the Pangolin Photo Challenge 2025. This gallery showcases exceptional wildlife photography captured beyond the African continent, highlighting creative vision, technical skill and unique moments in nature as photographers document remarkable species and landscapes from around the world.
Explore the winning, runner-up and highly commended photographs from the Birds of the World category in the 2025 Pangolin Photo Challenge. This collection showcases exceptional bird photography from around the globe, captured by talented photographers using a variety of techniques, lenses and camera settings to document remarkable avian moments in diverse habitats and lighting conditions.
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Best of 2024 round of the 2024 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Mammal Behaviour round of the 2024 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Water as an Element round of the 2024 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Monochrome Wildlife round of the 2024 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Out of Africa round of the 2024 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Birds of the World round of the 2024 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Check out the top images selected from our Best of 2023 category in the Pangolin Photo Challenge.
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Wildlife in Motion round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Natural Landscapes round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Water as an Element round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Urban Wildlife round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Monochrome Wildlife round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Animal Behaviour round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from The Red List round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Birds of the World round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
Here we reveal the winner and highly commended images from the Small Stuff round of the 2023 Pangolin Photo Challenge
