Winners of the 2023 Earth.Org Photography Competition

Earth.Org has presented the awards for its Global Wildlife & Natural World Photography Competition. Nearly 1,000 talented photographers, conservationists, wildlife enthusiasts, and explorers from across the world submitted their entries from over 50 countries, according to the website of the Hong Kong-based news and data platform. Among them, eight photographs have been declared winners in three categories.

An octopus trapped in a net is photographed in the Aomi Town of Japan’s Yamaguchi prefecture. Journalist and underwater photographer Kazushige Horiguchi became the second runner-up in the ‘Hu