It’s no secret that certain species of animal are under threat on our planet.
Wildlife photographers have captured poignant images of some of these animals – and the results are breathtaking.
Bringing to life many creatures that are either endangered or critically endangered, these talented photographers have contributed their works.
10 Years of Remembering Wildlife by Wildlife Photographers United published by Remembering Wildlife, explores some of the most endangered animals.
It is the tenth book in the Remembering Wildlife fundraising series, which has so far raised more than £1.2 million for conservation.
Featuring 20 winning images alongside some of the favourite photographs from the previous nine books in the series, the book also contains a new chapter that focuses on the world’s most trafficked mammal – the pangolin.
The pangolin is one of the least-known animals on earth – and sadly more than one million have been taken from the wild in the past decade. All book sales go to pangolin conservation projects.
By shining a light on their secretive world – and that of many other endangered animals – the book aims to encourage people to save these precious creatures.
The Indian pangolin prefers to live and forage on the ground – so they tend to have stronger limbs as well as longer claws, in order to help them with digging
Five cheetahs photographed at blue hour – during the brief period just before sunrise and just after sunset – in Shompole Hide in kKenya
The African elephant, whose life is often cut short by a bullet, spear or poison arrow, has seen many attempts to be protected and preserved as a species
The black-bellied pangolin, captured at Sangha Lodge on the high banks of the Sangha River on the edge of the Central African Republic’s Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve
The black-bellied pangolin is a tree-climbing species found in Africa – with a light body, helping it adapt to navigate branches
Bengal tigers photographed at Ranthambore National Park. Over the last 100 years, hunting and forest destruction have reduced tiger populations
Two Indian leopards – the melanistic species, left and spotted, right – at the Nagarhole National Park, also known as Rajiv Gandhi National Park, a wildlife reserve in the South Indian state of Karnataka
A southern white rhino captured at the Kalahari in Botswana
African wild dogs roam in the Mana Pools National Park, located in the northern most part of Zimbabwe along the Zambezi River
The Sri Lankan leopard, in Wilpattu National Park in Sri Lanka. They are threatened in the wild due to habitat loss and hunting
African wild dogs in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in South Africa
A lioness holds a baby in her mouth in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya
Ranthambore National Park’s sloth bear, a shaggy-haired bear native to the Indian subcontinent
A magnificent shot of a Bengal tiger and its reflection in Bandhavgarh National Park, India
Polar bears curl up and play in the snow against the beautiful backdrop of Canada’s Baffin Island
