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Global Competition and Traveling Exhibition

The Mkapa Awards was a wonderful two-year global photographic competition Nature's Best Photography designed and operated in alliance with African Wildlife Foundation in support of AWF programs to protect the unique wildlife and wild lands of Africa: "Bringing the World to Africa, and Africa to the World." The Mkapa Awards is no longer accepting entries, but photos of African subjects should be entered in the other NBP Awards competitions.

The 2022 winners of the Mkapa Awards were first presented at Nairobi National Museum with a ceremony awarding the photographers in Kenya. The exhibition ran from from Oct. to Feb. 2023. ABOVE: A selection of the finalists were then displayed at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida from April 26 - June 4, 2023. The Mkapa Awards went across the USA to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, then north to the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, from Nov. 4, 2023 - April 21, 2024. The traveling exhibition finally came back East to New York and was displayed from June - August 30, 2024 at the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, northwest of New York City. There were events in each location bringing support to AWF and important conservation programs.