Included in the price of admission, from Friday 5 June until Sunday 6 September in the Outdoor Gardens and Core Building, visitors will be able to marvel at the award-winning images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. First launched in 1965, the competition is deemed one of the world’s most prestigious photography events.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition brings together the award-winning images selected from a record-breaking 60,636 entries across 113 countries and territories, capturing rare wildlife encounters, dramatic landscapes and intimate moments in nature taken by both professional and amateur photographers. Through striking visual storytelling, the images reveal both the beauty and fragility of the natural world, encouraging visitors to reflect on their relationship with the planet.
Highlights of the showcase include Wim van den Heever’s striking image of a brown hyena in the abandoned town of Kolmanskop, Namibia, which earned the Grand Title Award after a decade-long effort to capture the shot.
Andrea Dominizi was named Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year for After the Destruction, a beautifully detailed portrait of the longhorn beetle Morimus asper.
The Nuveen People’s Choice Award attracted more than 85,000 votes worldwide, with Josef Stefan’s Flying Rodent taking the title. The image captures a young Iberian lynx tossing a rodent into the air before ultimately killing and devouring it.
Alongside the exhibition, the Eden Project’s National Wildflower Centre (NWC) will open for entries on Friday 29 May for the second Wildflower Photographer of the Year competition – a free, UK-wide initiative in partnership with CWG – inviting photographers of all ages and abilities to capture the beauty, diversity and importance of British wildflowers.
The competition will once again be judged by renowned horticulture photographers Clive Nichols and Molly Holman.
Entries are open to both young people aged 13–17 and adults, with amateur and professional categories and cash prizes of £500 and £1,000 respectively. Entries must feature British wildflowers only and be photographed anywhere in the UK between 1 October 2025 and 30 September 2026, with entrants asked to include the county where the image was taken.
Simon Townsend, General Manager at the Eden Project, said: “It’s an honour to be hosting the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition for the third year running, as well as opening entries for Eden’s second Wildflower Photographer of the Year competition. Wildflowers and wildlife range from mighty to miniscule wonders, which together have an enormous impact on our landscapes, our existence and on how we feel.
“Our mission as a charity is to inspire wonder, hope and positive action for the planet, and through both of these cultural moments, we hope to encourage visitors of all ages to slow down, look closely at the nature around them and consider the role we all play in caring for it.”
This July will also see 2025’s winning entries go on display at Eden Dock in Canary Wharf as part of the Wharf’s Nature Week, commencing 13 July.
Launched in 2025 to mark 25 years of the National Wildflower Centre, the competition highlights the vital role wildflowers play in supporting biodiversity and pollinators, particularly as the UK has lost an estimated 97 per cent of its wildflower habitats since the Second World War.
Building on a successful debut year that attracted more than 500 entries, the competition encourages people to notice the wildflowers growing all around them, from roadside verges and urban spaces to meadows and nature reserves.
Winning and shortlisted images from the National Wildflower Photographer of the Year competition will be exhibited at the Eden Project from November, extending the celebration of nature photography beyond the summer.
Elsewhere on site, a mini exhibition showcasing astonishing botanical illustrations from South Africa’s Grootbos Florilegium will go on show in the South Africa garden of the Mediterranean Biome from 5 June. This is ahead of a major Eden-wide Florilegium exhibition to come in the spring of 2027, including illustrations from the Grootbos Florilegium, Hawai’i’s National Tropical Botanical Garden Florilegium and the Eden Project’s own Florilegium collection of images meticulously recorded and preserved over the charity’s 25 years.
For more information and to book admission, which includes the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, visit www.edenproject.com/visit/whats-on.
For more information on the National Wildflower Photographer of the Year competition, visit: www.edenproject.com/wildflower-photo.
