Stephen Dalton / Female Cave spider (Meta menardi) with egg-sac, UK

Nick Garbutt / Juvenile Reticulated python (Python reticulatus) resting coiled round sapling by a stream. Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Juan Manuel Borrero / Tropical rainforest interior, Braulio Carrillo NP, Costa Rica

Nick Garbutt / Dawn over the Segama River, with mist hanging over lowland rainforest. Heart of Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo.

Doug Wechsler / Liana and ant nest hanging down from tree, interior view of tropical rain forest, Ecuador, South America

Nick Garbutt / Bornean horned frog (Megophrys nasuta) amongst leaf-litter on forest floor. Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Nick Garbutt / Stream in rainforest, Ranomafana NP, Madagascar

Nick Garbutt / Maliau Falls (6th of 7 tiers) on the Maliau River with a brooding storm in the sky. Centre of Maliau Basin, Sabah's 'Lost World', Borneo.

Shattil & Rozinski / Jaguar {Panthera onca} captive, Belize, Central America

Nick Garbutt / Mist and low cloud hanging over lowland Dipterocarp Rainforest, just after sunrise, Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, May 2011.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Tree with buttress roots in Varzea seasonally flooded forest on the shore of Mamiraua Lake, Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve, Alvaraes, Amazon, Amazonas State, Northern Brazil.

Nick Garbutt / Flower of locally endemic Rafflesia (Rafflesia tengku-adlinii) flower diameter 22cm blooming on forest floor within lowland Dipterocarp rainforest, Maliau Basin, Sabah's 'Lost World', Borneo

Suzi Eszterhas / Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei) mother holding baby twins age five months, Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda. Endangered species