March/April 2025 | Best Shots from Our Annual Photo Competition

FEATURES

ON THE COVER
Photographer Donna Feledichuk snapped this image of a Canada lynx last summer when she glimpsed the animal along a country road in Lac La Biche, Alta. 

THE DAM, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND
An exploration of the landscape-shifting icon celebrating 50 years as Canada's national symbol: the beaver.
By Brian Banks

NATURE MEANT US ALL TO BE WILDFLOWERS
A journey of friendship, loss and healing in the footsteps of an early 20th-century mountain explorer. 
By Meghan J. Ward
With photography by Natalie Gillis

THE MAGIC IN THE MUD
An invisible fuel draws thousands of migrating sandpipers to the Roberts Bank mudflats each year.
Story and photography by Isabelle Groc

CANADIAN PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2024
Canadian Geographic presents the winners of our annual photo competition!