The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert.

South African photographer Wim van den Heever has received this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his image ...

Wim van den Heever says it took him ten years to finally photograph the rare and elusive brown hyena in Namibia's abandoned ...

A rare photograph of a brown hyena standing in a deserted town in Namibia has earned South African photographer Wim van den ...

London's Natural History Museum's contest received a record-breaking 60,636 entries from 113 countries and territories, ...

A rare brown hyena roams Kolmanskop, a Namibian ghost town. Photographer Wim van den Heever captured this elusive creature, ...

The striking image earned South African photographer Wim van den Heever the Natural History Museum in London's top honor ...

An image of a rare hyena standing in front of an abandoned building in a former diamond mining town in Namibia has won the ...

The town, called Kolmanskop, is a ghost of what it used to be in the early 1900s. Wim's photograph aptly captures its eerie ...

Mr van den Heever used camera trap technology for the image “ghost town visitor”, which also won the urban wildlife category ...

The 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest received a record-breaking 60,636 entries from 113 countries. Each entry offered a glimpse into the fragile beauty of wildlife and the growing ...