Ten months spent tracking rare snow leopards in isolated areas of northern India and Pakistan has paid off for American photographer Steve Winter, who was today named as wildlife photographer of the year. An exhibition of the winning, runner-up or commended photographs from the competition’s 17 categories goes on show at the Natural History Museum [...]

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by Xan Rice from the Gaurdian, UK

 Victor Matioli’s organic pumpkins are plump, his coriander aromatic and his spinach “very soft, sweet, and tasty”. His half-acre farm is a former rubbish dump in the heart of east Africa’s biggest slum.

So arresting is the sight of tall sunflowers growing amid the rust-coloured shacks and dirt paths of [...]

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