Ami Vitale: Back to the Wild

Two-year-old giant panda Hua Yan (Pretty Girl) is one of the world’s most endangered animals. She was born in captivity at the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan province, China, then released into the wild, where she was captured by Vitale, a National Geographic photographer and film-maker

Callie Chee: Iran’s Chabahar Mountains

This region is also known in Iran as the Martian mountains. The dramatically lit peaks are captured here by Chee

Tui De Roy: Blue-footed Booby

There’s no mistaking the blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii), captured here in the Galápagos, Ecuador, by De Roy, a wildlife photographer and author based on the islands

Krystle Wright: Salty Sea Dogs

Off the coast of Montague Island is one of Australia’s largest colonies of fur seals. The Australian photographer Wright says these ‘labradors of the sea’ gave her ‘one of the best days I’ve ever had in the water’ with their curiosity and playfulness

Brooke Holm: Sand Sea

In the Namibian desert, the tallest dunes tower into the sky, their colours shifting with the sun. From above, the dunes can resemble the female form, says Holm, a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, who produces detailed environmental portraits

Michaela Skovranova: Submergence

A baby humpback whale, moments after breaching in Vava’u, Tonga. The Australia-based Skovranova says she captured the event ‘just metres away from us, and the force of the water pushed us away and covered us in thousands of tiny bubbles’

Lisa Michele Burns: Peak Patience

A dramatic image of New Zealand’s highest peak, Mount Cook/Aoraki. Burns, an Australian photographer and editor of The Wandering Lens, says: ‘A pink glow suddenly stopped me in my tracks and I turned to see this scene being revealed. I’ve never opened my camera bag as quickly as I did at that moment’

Jody MacDonald: Rajan Morning Walk

Rajan is a 66-year-old Asian elephant and the last ‘sea-swimming’ elephant of his kind. Brought to the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean for logging in the 1950s, he and a small group of 10 elephants were forced to learn how to swim in the ocean to bring the logged trees to nearby boats. When logging was banned in 2002, Rajan was out of a job. He lived out his days among the giant trees, and was captured by MacDonald before his death in 2016

Tiina Itkonen: Dog Sleds in Greenland

Inuit hunters in north-west Greenland still travel by dog sled on sea ice in winter. Itkonen, a photographer from Finland, has been documenting Greenland and its inhabitants for 30 years, and captures here a moment of rest for the dogs on their arduous journey

Marina Cano: Giraffes

An intimate portrait of two giraffes by Cano, a Spanish wildlife photographer who says she has ‘fallen in love’ with the African continent over the course of 20 years dedicated to nature photography and work to help protect threatened species

Daisy Gilardini: The Hug

Watching polar bears playfight is one of the highlights of autumn in northern Manitoba, Canada. Nestled on the Hudson Bay shore, the town of Churchill is on the annual migration path and has the largest known concentration of polar bears in the world. Gilardini specialises in the polar regions

Jane Goodall: Self Portrait

In her early days at Gombe, Tanzania, Jane Goodall spent many hours sitting on a high peak with binoculars or a telescope, searching the forest below for chimpanzees. She took this photo of herself with a camera fastened to a tree branch. Goodall says: ‘I was really excited to see that the photo of me looking out at the valley at Gombe with my trusty lightweight telescope was chosen [for the print sale]. It was taken in, I think, 1962. I was on my own, very high up in the hills and I thought: what a great photo this would make’