In pictures: The first 10 shots of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year unveiled

For 58 years, the Natural History Museum in London has organized the

awarding the best nature photographs selected by an international jury.

While extreme climatic episodes are multiplying in the four corners of the globe, this competition amazes by the beauty of the selected shots, while highlighting the fragility of the species that surround us in the face of attacks by humans.

The results of the competition will be announced on October 11 and the complete winners can be found in a book to be published on October 12 by Biotope editions.

Here are the first 10 photos of the 2022 selection unveiled.

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• Brandon Güell waded for a long time in the murky water of a pond to document the breeding frenzy of tree frogs.

  As soon as night fell, thousands of females arrived at the pond to mate and lay their eggs on the overhanging palm fronds.

  Here, unmated males await the arrival of females to mate with.

• Britta Jaschinski created this staging to denounce the impact of coltan mining.

  Bright blue, coltan is a component of cell phone and laptop batteries.

  Britta placed around mining tools and the remains of animals impacted by the mining industry, all seized by customs authorities: a skull, gorilla bones, as well as porcupine quills.

• Dmitry Kokh tells us about his encounter with polar bears that have taken over an abandoned village in the Russian High Arctic.

  Extremely curious, polar bears explore abandoned structures in search of potential food.

  With global warming, they often come closer and closer to human habitation.

• Jasper Doest painted the portrait of Lubinda Lubinda, revealing the impact of drought on the Zambezi floodplain.

  He is the director of an observation station on the Zambezi River.

  His new house (right) must not have been built as high as the older ones, testifying to the downward evolution of the level of the floods of the river, a consequence of more frequent droughts.

• Canadian Jo-Anne McArthur tells us about the living conditions of young American mink on a farm in Sweden.

  For Jo-Anne, it is important to document cruelty in order to encourage change.

• Jose Fragozo made an image symbolizing the confrontation of the natural world with human activities.

  Around the world, human development is increasingly encroaching on the territory and habitat of animals.

• Joshua Cox immortalized this young deer standing majestically in the snow.

  Richmond Park is home to herds of deer and fallow deer, which have roamed freely since 1637.

• Srikanth Mannepuri takes a sobering look at the scale of commercial fishing.

• Suzi Eszterhas immortalized the encounter between a sloth and a dog.

  Sloths live in trees and rarely descend to the forest floor.

  Due to increasing habitat loss and forest fragmentation, they are forced to move into urbanized areas to find food.

• Tiina Törmänen was swimming through cloud-like clumps of algae in a lake in Finnish Lapland.

  She was delighted to meet this school of curious little perch in this lake where she dives every year in summer.

  Despite the magical nature of the scene, the excessive growth of algae, a consequence of climate change and warming waters, can lead to a disruption of the ecosystem as they block sunlight and consume oxygen.

• The results of the competition will be announced on October 11 and the complete winners can be found in a book to be published on October 12 by Biotope editions.

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