Remembering Cheetahs
Kevin Dooley – Remembering WIldlife
To celebrate its 10th year anniversary, Remembering Wildlife – the book series that through wild animals photography raises funds to support endangered animals as well as efforts to raise awareness on the plight facing wildlife — is releasing 10 Years of Remembering Wildlife, the first book in the series that includes various species.
Since its founding by British wildlife photographer Margot Raggett, who was moved to action after seeing a poached elephant in Kenya, the Remembering Wildlife collective has published nine stunning books, each dedicated to an animal, with iconic images donated by many of the world’s top wildlife photographers: Remembering Elephants, Remembering Rhinos, Remembering Great Apes, Remembering Lions, Remembering Cheetahs, Remembering African Wild Dogs, Remembering Bears, Remembering Leopards and Remembering Tigers.
All profits from the charity book series go to conservation and more than $1.55 million has already been donated to 79 projects in 34 countries.
Remembering Rhinos
HilaryO’Leary – Remembering Wildlife
Remembering Cheetahs,, Maasai Mara, Kenya
Jonathan & Angela Scott – Remembering Wildlife
Remembering Wildlife Photo Competition Winners, And More
The new 10 Years of Remembering Wildlife, is the first book in the series to feature multiple species. The largest book yet, it will be launched on October 6. It showcases the 20 winning images of a recent photo competition that fielded a record number of 4,500 images submitted by photographers from around the world.
Alongside the photography contest winners there will be some of the favorite photographs from the previous nine books in the series and new images donated by world-class wildlife photographers including Marsel van Oosten, Frans Lanting, Greg du Toit and Jonathan and Angela Scott.
A kickstarter campaign to fund the book ran successfully last April.
‘A Majestic Union’, Winner of 10 Years Of Remembering Wildlife Photo competition. Nagarhole Tiger … More
Kaustubh Mulay – Remembering Wildlife
‘Bengal Tiger reflection’, Winner of 10 Years Of Remembering Wildlife Photo competition. Bandhavgarh … More
Bircan Harper – Remembering Wildlife
‘African Black Bellied Pangolin’, Winner of 10 Years Of Remembering Wildlife Photo competition.. … More
Alessandra Sikand – Remembering Wildlife
Pangolin, The Star Of Remembering Wildlife New Book
The focus of the 10 Years Remembering Wildlife book is the pangolin, the world’s most illegally trafficked mammal. All funds from sales of the book will go to organizations working with pangolins across Africa and Asia.
Despite facing extreme threats from poaching and habitat loss, conservation efforts are giving these incredible creatures a fighting chance. From rescue and rehabilitation programs to stronger protections, hope is on the rise.
To date, every animal featured in the series is impacted by climate change, and that’s also true for pangolins, particularly the Temminck’s ground pangolin. Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns in their habitats, such as the Kalahari, affect their survival in several ways, not least scarcity of food as hotter and dryer conditions reduce the availability of ants and termites, making it difficult for pangolins, extremely sensitive to temperature changes, to adapt and find alternative food sources.
Thermoregulation is another climate-related challenge.
The impact of climate change on pangolins highlights the need for conservation efforts that take into account the complex relationships between wild animals and their environments.
‘Age of Innocence’, Winner of 10 Years Of Remembering Wildlife Photo competition. Baffin Island, … More
Julie Oldroyd – Remembering Wildlife
‘Mbili bora in the rain’, Winner of 10 Years Of Remembering Wildlife Photo competition. Masai Mara, … More
Xavier Ortega – Remembering Wildlife
‘Puppy love’, Winner of 10 Years Of Remembering Wildlife Photo competition. Wild gods cubs in Tswalu … More
Marcus Westberg – Remembering Wildlife
“They simply want to lead their lives, raise their families safely and continue to exist on this Earth, unharmed and unbothered by humans.”
Remembering Rhinos, Kenya
Isak Pretorius, – Remembering Wildlife
Remembering Bears. Svalbard, Norway
Marsel van Oosten- Remembering Wildlife
Remembering Wildlife And Climate Change
Watching the impact of climate change says founder Margot Raggett, is “like a slow-motion car crash as so many in the world either deny it or seem to have just accepted there is nothing that can be done. Every day we see its impact in relation to wildlife across the world, from polar bears with less ice to hunt from, to cheetahs, adapted for daytime hunting, being forced to shift to more nocturnal activity due to rising daytime temperatures. This exposes them to increased competition and danger from other nocturnal predators like lions, reducing their hunting success and survival rates.”
She explains that the publication of the books would not have been possible “without the generosity of our supporters. With their help, we can raise awareness of the threats not only facing pangolins but wildlife as a whole and through sales of the book, we can raise funds to support those on the front line. The conservation world has been devastated by the recent cuts from the (United States Agency for International Development) and this is a way for the rest of us to stand up and say it is unacceptable.”
Remembering Leopards, ‘Leopard sun’
Hannes Lochne – Remembering Wildlife
Remembering Great Apes, A sweet moment between an infant orangutan and his mother. Borneo, Indonesia
Jami Tarris – Remembering Wildlife
“Wildlife photography is absolutely imperative when it comes to showing the world just what might be lost, if we don’t fight to preserve it now.”
Remembering Bears
Molly McCormick – Remembering Wildlife
Remembering Elephants. Desert Elephant walking in river bed in front of large sand dunes. Namib … More
Theo Allofs – Remembering Wildlife
According to Raggett, the US AID cuts have shocked the conservation world and will have profound, long-term consequences on the state of our natural world. “We can only hope that other private individuals and fundraising organisations will be able to bridge some of the gaps until sanity prevails once again.”
As My Modern Met explains, “wildlife photography can easily veer into the romantic or sentimental, but these images are instead raw, candid portraits of the animals we stand to lose without direct conservation efforts.”
For Raggett, “wildlife photography is absolutely imperative when it comes to showing the wider world just what might be lost if we don’t fight to preserve it now.”
As explained by Lisa Antell in the dedication of the 2023 Remembering Leopards and extending to all wild species of our world, they “simply want to lead their lives, raise their families safely and continue to exist on this Earth, unharmed and unbothered by humans. May your future existence be peaceful and prosperous.”
Remembering Tigers
Marius Coetzee – Remembering Wildlife
Remembering Cheetahs, ‘Mommy and Me, Cheetah with her cub’.. Massai Mara, Kenya
Piper Mackay – Remembering Wildlife
The cover of the upcoming book to be launched on 6 October 2025
Photo by Tristan Dicks, – Remembering Wildlife
The 10 Years Of remembering Wildlife book can be pre-ordered here
Remembering Wildlife organizes a limited number of fundraising trips each year led by Raggett, focusing on different species featured in the books’ series. The next one is Elephant Festival (co-hosted by Federico Veronesi) in November, 2026.
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