Wildlife Comedy Awards 2019: The Funniest Animal Photos

The nominees for the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have been announced. This year's photos feature, among others, a surfing penguin and an overworked brown bear.

Conservation with a Sense of Humour

The Wildlife Comedy Awards were founded by two photographers to raise awareness of nature conservation and species preservation. We are all partly responsible for global warming, which affects not only humans but animals equally. “None of us is perfect. We all fly somewhere occasionally, drive cars, cook or burn something”, they write on their website. That is precisely why it is urgently necessary for all of us to become conservationists in our own way — even in small ways.

The 40 Funniest Animal Photos of 2019

This can be achieved, for example, through more responsible shopping — by avoiding products containing palm oil and non-recyclable products. It can be achieved by reducing water consumption at home and taking shorter showers. And it can be achieved by repeatedly drawing the attention of those around us to the urgency of environmental and animal protection — whether at home, at work, at school, or on social media.