Charlie Hamilton James (UK) captures a world-famous migration from above.
To demonstrate the scale of the greatest migration on Earth, Charlie flew his drone high above the multitudes of travelling wildebeest. Appearing as tiny figures, they zig-zagged through the vast, green plains on the border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
Chasing seasonal rains, each year almost 1.3 million wildebeest travel more than 2,800 kilometres in a circuit from Tanzania to Kenya and back. About 70% of the total wildebeest population complete this gruelling trek.
The sheer numbers might imply all is well, but wildebeest faces ever-increasing threats, from competition with humans and livestock for space and water to tourism, poaching fences and the obstruction of their migration routes by fences.
In the Pleistocene, these scenes would be common around the world. So much has been lost and it is getting worse.