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WNPAs共有14個比賽組別，橫跨哺乳類、爬行類、鳥類等各類動物、地勢景觀、水底世界、植物及人類等，每組設有金銀銅奬項。今年比賽有45個參賽國家、共逾千份作品。明報電子平台組獲准刊登得獎作品，供讀者欣賞鏡頭下的大自然。

2 Second place, Animals in their habitat. A leopard climbs atree in Kenya.

3 Third place, Nature art. A pair of flamingos fly over LakeMagadi in Kenya.

4 Second place, Nature art. Red spider mites climb on a webin Cooch Behar, India.

5 Second place, People and nature. A seal tangled in a fishingnet on the island of Dune, near Helgoland, Germany

6 First place, Underwater. A couple of Harlequin shrimp perchon a blue sea star in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.

7 Second place, Behavior - Birds. A red-billed oxpecker restson a warthog in Zimanga, South Africa.

8 Third place, Behavior - Birds. A swallow skims along thewater's surface in Kiskunság National Park, in Hungary

9 First place, Behavior - Mammals. Japanese macaques,photographed on Japan's Awaji Island.

10 Third place, Animals in their habitat. A badger, seen in aforest at night in Bakonybél, Hungary.

11 Third place, Animals in their habitat. A badger, seen in aforest at night in Bakonybél, Hungary.

12 Third place, Behavior - Mammals. An African savannaelephant attempts to camouflage itself behind a too-small bush in MaratabaPrivate Reserve, Marakele National Park, Limpopo, South Africa.

13 Third place, Behavior - Invertebrates. A scorpion digs insand near Rajasthan, India.

14 Second place, Black and white. Wildebeests leap at theMara River crossing in Kenya

15 Third place, Plants and fungi. Mycena fungi, seen inRecarei, Paredes, Portugal

16 Third place, Animal portraits. A seaweed blenny,photographed near Blue Heron Bridge in Riviera Beach, Florida.

16Winner, Nature art. Spawning coral in the Red Sea.Shlesinger: "Corals are animals, and this is how they reproduce. Usually,at the exact same time, thousands of corals of a given species along hundredsof kilometers of the reef reproduce by spawning egg-and-sperm bundlesaltogether into the open sea. These bundles will be carried away by thecurrents, mixing in the water, until they finally encounter a match—a sperm willfertilize an egg and new life will be created. Yet catching coral spawning istricky business as it usually happens only once a year in a certain month ofthe year, on a specific night of the month, and at a certain hour of the nightfor a very short time window of only few minutes. In this photo, a close-up ofa branching coral spawn pinkish egg-and-sperm bundles."