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Funny Wildlife Competition Opens For Entries

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Mar 10, 2025 — 3 min read

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By Fun Correspondent

The most entertaining and joyful free photo competition in the world, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards are back and open for your hilarious and wonderful wildlife images and videos.

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Thanks to the unbelievable success and positive reaction we had following last year’s competition, we are beyond chuffed to be partnering once again with Nikon, one of the world's leading camera brands.

Believe it or not, we will be beavering away like...um...very busy beavers to make this year even bigger, even better and even more sensational than ever before, celebrating global wildlife, the people taking part and encouraging the world to do more for conservation through our hilarious wildlife images and videos.

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To celebrate this fantastic news, Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards have put together some ‘never seen before’ entries from the 2024 Awards.

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PRIZES

There are some incredible prizes including a once in a lifetime safari in the Maasai Mara in Kenya for the winner, with the wonderful Alex Walker’s Serian and a handmade trophy from The Wonder Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Other prizes include Nikon Z6III and Z50II Nikon cameras, brilliant ThinkTANK. camera bags and a website from Amazing Internet.

This year’s judging panel consists of three Nikon Creators, including Cameron Whitnall, Lara Jacksonand Roxy Furman. Also on the panel is Charlotte Kemsley, Regional Director for Nikon in Northern Europe, TV presenter Kate Humble, actor and comedian Hugh Dennis, wildlife photographers Daisy Gilardiniand Will Burrard-Lucas, wildlife expert Will Travers OBE and conservationist Bella Lack.

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This heart-warming competition is free to enter and open to the public until June 30th 2025.

The shortlist will be revealed in October, with the winners announced later in November or December.

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards is proud to once again support the Whitley Fund for Nature(WFN), a UK charity that has been empowering conservation leaders across the Global South for over 30 years.

In that time, WFN has invested £23 million in more than 200 conservationists across 90 countries, and Nikon is honoured to spotlight their incredible work through this competition.

For more information about Comedy Wildlife, Nikon and about the competition or how to enter, please contact or visit: www.comedywildlifephoto.com

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