The best of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012

00:01 18 October 2012

The winners of this year's Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year were announced last night ? chosen from 48,000 entries submitted by amateur and professional photographers from 98 countries.

The winning images will be on show at the Natural History Museum in London until 3 March 2013, after which the collection will go on tour around the world. This gallery shows some of our favourites from the exhibition.

Read more: The overall winner is our Picture of the Day, "Penguin ascension wins wildlife photographer prize"

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Dog days by Kim Wolhuter
Winner of The Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife

Wolhuter has been filming African wild dogs at Zimbabwe's Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve for more than four years.

"At times, it's heart-wrenching," he says. "My mission is to dispel the myth that they're a threat and help raise awareness of their plight." African wild dogs require huge territories, and so protecting them can safeguard entire ecosystems. When this picture was taken, the pack had travelled 4 kilometres to a waterhole, only to find it dried up. "The mosaic of mud seemed to epitomise the increasingly fragmented world this puppy is growing up in."

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