If you’re planning to enter our Animal Kingdom round, which launches next week, take these tips from three of last year’s top ten photographers

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let me introduce you to 19-year-old me, back when I was doing my undergraduate degree in zoology and had a chance to work in the industry for a year. Most of my fellow students stayed relatively local

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We get close to woodpeckers, birds of prey and raccoon dogs in Estonia, in the company of wildlife pro Paul Browning