Highly commended A Polar Bear’s Struggle by Justin Hofman, US.
Hofman says his entire body was gripped by sorrow as he watched this starving polar bear at an abandoned hunter’s camp, in the Canadian Arctic, slowly heave itself up to standing. With little, and thinning, ice to move around on, the bear is unable to search for food
Photograph: Justin Hofman/Wildlife Photographer of the Year/NHM