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Canada’s wild side: The best wildlife photos of 2025
From lynx in snowy forests to a moose wading through misty waters, and moss glowing under wildfire flames, these award-winning photos showcase Canada’s stunning wildlife and landscapes.
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Maxime Légaré-Vézina of Quebec City has been named the 2025 Canadian Wildlife Photographer of the Year and will begin a two-year term as Canadian Geographic’s Audain emerging photographer-in-residence, thanks to the Audain Foundation. (Maxime Légaré-Vézina/ Canadian Geographic)
A Canada lynx guides her kittens through the northern Ontario forest amid a heavy snowfall. (Jean-Simon Bégin/ Canadian Geographic)
A young raccoon, drenched from a recent rain, searches for food at Marthaville Habitat Management Area in Petrolia, Ont. (Reece Buruma/ Canadian Geographic)
A common merganser chick dives for juvenile bass in the waters of Quebec’s Lake Memphremagog, a risky move, says the photographer. “Several times, adult bass tried to eat the chicks, but the mother rescued them just in time!” (Alex Côté/ Canadian Geographic)
Salmon swim upstream in B.C.’s Campbell River to spawn, while Maxwel Hohn concealed himself in the canyon’s shadows to capture the swift-moving fish. (Maxwel Hohn/ Canadian Geographic)
In June, as crews battled a wildfire near Squamish, B.C., Jillian Brown captured the striking sight of flames engulfing moss on a rock face. (Jillian A. Brown/Canadian Geographic)
An aerial view of an algal bloom in Dog Lake near Kingston, Ont., resembles an abstract painting. Once considered a problem only in heavily polluted waters, algae overgrowth is now appearing even in remote lakes, driven by landscape disturbances and climate change. (Haolun Tian/Canadian Geographic)
A northern spreadwing, covered in morning dew, perches in B.C.’s South Chilcotin Mountains. This damselfly is found in high elevations and areas near ponds and lakes across Canada. (Leslie Poulson/Canadian Geographic)
Using low-level flash, Trevor Lowthers captured a female wood duck seemingly “disco dancing” against the backdrop of a Dartmouth, N.S., sunset. (Trevor Lowthers/Canadian Geographic)
A squat lobster stands watch at the entrance of its beer bottle home in Whytecliff Park, a protected area and popular dive site in West Vancouver, B.C. (Eli Wolpin/Canadian Geographic)
A metallic sweat bee gathers pollen from a lily’s anther in the photographer’s garden in Kemptville, Ont. (Keri Fisher/ Canadian Geographic)
An Arctic hare rests on a hillside in the shadow of Mount Thor on Baffin Island, Nunavut. Its coat gradually shifts from brown to white with the approach of autumn, providing camouflage. (Artur Stanisz/ Canadian Geographic)
Fresh vegetation begins to reclaim land scorched by wildfire near Tumbler Ridge, B.C. (Brandon Broderick/ Canadian Geographic)
A sea otter pup snuggles close to its mother near Port Alice, B.C. (Christy Grinton/Canadian Geographic)
Jean-Christophe Lemay came across this red fox near a fast-food restaurant in Rimouski, Que. While urban foxes have adapted to city life, they face a higher risk of injury or death from traffic. (Jean-Christophe Lemay/Canadian Geographic)
A series of images captures hundreds of fireflies lighting up as dusk settles on a late spring night near Lakefield, Ont. (Tom Halligan/Canadian Geographic)
Amanda Peyton-Noseworthy was drawn to the lush moss carpeting the forest floor along a trail in Birchy Bay, N.L. (Amanda Peyton-Noseworthy/Canadian Geographic)