These pictures from the National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest show the beauty and the majesty of planet Earth but also, the catastrophic effect of pollution on our world. A selection of the contest’s pictures ended in November 2016.
Aaron Feinberg / view on the Pacific Ocean from the National Parc of Polihale, Kauai Island, Hawaï, USA
NingYu Pao / National Parc of Etosha, Namibia
Denis Budkov / Ice cave, Moutnovski vulcan, Russia
Emily Riley / Young colibri
Jose Pesquero Gomez / Empuse commune (Empusa pennata)
Eileen Johnson / Wild gooses flying in a flock, Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, USA
Mario Suarez Porras, Puffin Monk (Fratercula arctica), Skomer Island, Scotland, Wales, United-Kingdom
Kyon. J / Inside Mongolia, Chine
Andrés Miguel Domìnguez / Kingfishers (Alcedo atthis)
Brina Bunt / Erta Ale vulcan, Etiopia
Stas Bartnikas / reserve of bituminous sand, Fort McMurray, Canada
Jassen T. / Kalispell, Montana, USA
Meril D. / National Parc of Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA
Christopher Markisz, view on Mill Valley from the Mount Tamalpais, California, USA
