Wim van den Heever says it took him ten years to finally photograph the rare and elusive brown hyena in Namibia's abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop.

The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert.

‘Ghost Town Visitor’ is the winner of #WPY61’s Urban Wildlife category and won Wim the title of Wildlife Photographer of the ...

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At night, the long-abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop is almost empty. The tourists who visit this early 20th-Century settlement near Namibia's Atlantic Coast for its sand-filled buildings ...

An image of a rare hyena standing in front of an abandoned building in a former diamond mining town in Namibia has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award. Shot by South African ...

South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever was announced as the Natural History Museum London's Wildlife ...

An image of a rare hyena standing in front of an abandoned building in a former diamond mining town in Namibia has won the ...

A rare brown hyena roams Kolmanskop, a Namibian ghost town. Photographer Wim van den Heever captured this elusive creature, winning the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award. The image ...