
Brightly coloured sediment paints the Icelandic landscape as it flows towards the ocean. Photograph: Kristin Wright/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022
The global photography competition, The Nature Conversancy Photo contest, has attracted more than 100,000 entries from 196 different countries and territories. The competition is divided into six categories: people and nature, landscape, water, wildlife, climate, and plants and fungi.
Here are some of the top images:

On either side of a highway in Tibet, gullies formed by rainwater erosion span out like a tree.
Photograph: Li Ping/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

The jungle of the Yucatán peninsula protects a great biodiversity of species. The Mayan Train will be built here, affecting the best preserved jungle in Mexico.
Photograph: Francesca Franchini/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022.

This photo was taken in Lamongan, East Java at sunset. Mangroves were planted to reduce the impact of abrasion around this area.
Photograph: Waluya Priya Atmaja/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

‘Himebotaru’ is a small firefly that lives in the forest and emits a short and powerful light like a flash. This photo was shot with a single shutter, 60-second exposure time and no compositing. When a firefly passes near the camera, it becomes a big bokeh.
Photograph: Masahiro Hiroike/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Photograph: Shafeeq Mulla/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Photograph: Tibor Litauszki/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Photograph: Jassen Todorov/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Photograph: Florian Ledoux/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Photograph: Dasun Nirmala Malaarachchi/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Photograph: Fabio Saltarelli/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

A vibrant fan-throated lizard (Sarada superba) stands guard over his territory. This lizard was photographed in the Chalkewadi plateau in Satara district, which is the site of one of the largest windfarms in this region of Maharashtra.
Photograph: Sandesh Kadur/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

The slope of Mount Adi in Navarra, Spain.
Photograph: Francisco Javier Munuera González/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Photograph: Amish Jain/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Photograph: Rick Dowling/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022

Nicknamed ‘ghost mushrooms’ due to its eerie green glow, the scientific names of these bioluminescent mushrooms are Omphalotus nidiformis. The glow is visible to the naked eye in complete darkness. They are found in certain forests in Australia.
Photograph: Callie Chee/Courtesy TNC Photo Contest 2022