Spanish freelance photographer and filmmaker Jon A Juárez, affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) in Berlin, has been awarded one of the world’s most prestigious distinctions in nature photography: the “Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 Award” (WPY) in the Category “photojournalism” at the Natural History Museum, London. His winning photo documents the world’s first successfully embryo transfer in southern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum simum) — a scientific milestone offering renewed hope for saving its critically endangered northern relative (Ceratotherium simum cottoni).