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Jen Guyton

This Cape pangolin was rescued from poachers in Mozambique and released back into the wild. Conservationists hope new pangolin protections in China and the omission of pangolin scales from the country’s list of approved traditional medicines will help slow the decline of all eight species of these endangered animals.

An East African black mud turtle (Pelusios subniger) peeks out of a seasonal pond. The omnivorous reptiles eat just about anything they can find in the water.

The spotted bush snake Philothamnus semivariegatus is an expert climber, hunting lizards and tree frogs in the canopy.

A flap-necked chameleon (Chamaeleo dilepis) climbs through a bush looking for insects to eat in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

This tuskless matriarch moves with her herd across Gorongosa’s floodplain.

A tuskless adult female elephant in the Gorongosa National Park woodlands has been fitted with a GPS collar so researchers can track her movements and better understand her behaviour.

Jen Guyton, a National Geographic explorer, won the 'plants and fungi' category with a photo of a welwitschia in the Namib Desert. Individual welwitschia plants can live 1,000 years or more.