In the category: “Nature in Focus”
This category celebrated the beauty, diversity and wonder of wildlife, habitats and natural systems. The winning photograph, by Anna Terrade, captures a large stag encountered during the rutting season while carrying out fieldwork. Standing in a sunlit woodland clearing, the animal is a powerful reminder of the wildlife our work aims to protect.

Anna Terrade

In the category: “Nature & Infrastructure”
This category showcased the relationship between transport infrastructure and the natural environment. Alejandra Franco Saldarriaga won with “The Pyrenean Contrast”, a sweeping mountain landscape in which a viaduct crosses a green Pyrenean valley, illustrating how infrastructure and landscape meet.

Alejandra Franco Saldarriaga

In the category: “Connecting Landscapes”
This category highlighted ecological connectivity, movement and the connections between people, nature and place. Victoria Gilbey’s winning image shows Cockcrow bridge early in the morning, the first heathland green bridge in the UK, bathed in sunrise light.

Victoria Gilbey

In the category: “Innovation in Action”
This category celebrated practical solutions and positive action for nature positive infrastructure. Gebhard Banko won with “Three Ways to Wander: where rubber meets the road, steel meets the track, and paws meet the path”. This aerial photograph brings together road, railway and a wildlife crossing in a single frame, showing how different networks can coexist.

Gebhard Banko

In the category: “special mentions”
The jury also wished to recognise two outstanding entries:
Lazaros Georgiadis, for “Bridging in Different Centuries, Greece”, which places historic and modern bridges side by side in the same valley.
Neil Strong, for “Transport infrastructure corridors for all”, a close up reminder that it is not just humans who use rails to commute.

Lazaros Georgiadis

Neil Strong