Wildlife Photography Highlights and Conservation Updates from Global Locations

A collection of wildlife photography and conservation news features multiple global events. Josef Stefan from Austria won the Nuveen People's Choice award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for an image of an Iberian lynx in Ciudad Real, Spain. In Tasmania, Australia, a brushtail possum was discovered in an airport toy store and later returned to nature. A new pit viper species was identified in Phnom Prampi cave in Battambang, Cambodia, during a survey. Mountain gorilla twins were born in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, marking a second twin birth within two months. Southern white rhinoceroses were moved to Kidepo National Park in Uganda as part of reintroduction efforts after local extinction due to poaching. The Wildlife Conservation Society has urged protection for striped hyenas in Turkmenistan, a species with fewer than 10,000 individuals remaining globally.