Guy Edwardes / The Old Man of Storr in winter, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebride, Scotland, UK. January 2015.

Guy Edwardes / The Old Man of Storr in winter, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebride, Scotland, UK. January 2015.

Guy Edwardes / The Old Man of Storr in winter, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebride, Scotland, UK. January 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Old Man of Storr, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK. January 2014.

Guy Edwardes / Old Man of Storr, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK. January 2014.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Timelapse of Old Man of Storr in winter, Trotternish Ridge, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, March 2014.

Ingo Arndt / Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) in old Whaling Station, South Georgia, February

Luke Massey / Black kites (Milvus migrans) flying above man as he throws food skyward from a rooftop. Old Delhi, India. February 2016. Finalist in the Urban category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards...

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) few-weeks old pup caught in the wild and shown at a famous camel trekking site for tourists in the hope of either selling it or being paid for photos, Kebili Governorate. Tun...

Staffan Widstrand / Northern Viscacha or Vizcacha (Lagidium peruanum) resting in an old man made structure, Machu Picchu UNESCO World Heritage Site, Peru. February.

Ammonite / Close-up of Honey bees (Apis mellifera) inside hive producing honey, France, July.

Michael Pitts,Michael Pitts / DC-3 Aircraft wreck. Drug running aircraft that crashed in shallow water. Normans Cay, Exhumas, Bahamas. May 2005

Claudio Contreras / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) with fish catch, Cabo Pulmo National Park, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico, July

Laurent Geslin / Fulani man looking across the Senegal river to his old village, Ari Funda, on the other side, South Mauritania, West Africa, 2005

Pascal Tordeux / Fisherman on Lake Old Forge, Ardennes, France, November 2011. Model released

Jabruson / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) two youngsters 'Mecca' and 'Lungunia' being fed mangos by their keeper, Garamba National Park, North Eastern Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Remnants...

Nick Upton / Garden chair well covered with extensive growths of lichen, including filamentous forms (Usnea sp.), (Evernia prunastri) and Foliose (Flavoparmelia caperata), Cornwall, UK, August.

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of Cromagnon 'Skull of an old man' Plate 1, Section C. Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875..

Christophe Courteau / Close up of man's hand harvesting Pyrethrum, which refers to several Old World plants of the Chrysanthemum genus which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. Pyrethrum is also the...

Sven Zacek / 'Piusa Caves', man-made sand mines. Southern Estonia, Europe, April.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Old Man of Storr at dawn, Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, January 2011

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Old Man of Storr at dawn, Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, January 2011. Did you know? The Isle of Skye is twinned with the fictional islands 'Skylands' from the Skylanders video game.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Old Man of Storr at dawn, Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, January 2011. 2020VISION Book Plate.Did you know? This landmark has been used as a location in several films, most recently the 2012 sci-f...

Juergen Freund / Old coral reef destroyed by dynamite fishing. New corals are not able to colonise the rubble. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010

Angelo Gandolfi / An old Cork Oak (Quercus) growing over a rock. February, Corsica island, France. February 2010

Laurie Campbell / Pinnacles of Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland, June

Jouan & Rius / The Old Man of Stoer, Sutherland, Highlands, Scotland, UK

Staffan Widstrand / Robert Mulluk Sr, portrait, 73 years old, Kobuk Valley NP, Alaska, USA

Gerry Ellis / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) orphan, Maluti, six months old, charging camera, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

David Noton / The Old Man of Storr in dramatic light, Trotternish Isle of Skye, Scotland

Nigel Cattlin / Traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba) flowering in hedgerow, Berkshire, England, UK. August.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Sunrise over the Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2013.

Jed Weingarten / Wild Wonders of China / Photographer Staffan Widstrand and Magnus Lundgren, founders of Wild Wonders of China, taking photos of Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China, April 2015...

Karine Aigner / Shadows of two men feeding Macaque (Macaca sp) at Galtaii or Monkey Temple. Near Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Roger Powell / European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) perched on a plastic bottle recycled into a seed feeder. Druridge, Northumberland, England, UK. December.

Ross Hoddinott / The Old Man of Storr, golden early morning light, the Trotternish peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK. November 2017.

Nick Upton / Researcher radiotracking Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) in mature mixed forest. Muraka Forest Reseve, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018.

Nick Upton / Researcher setting trailcam to monitor Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) nest hole. Mature mixed forest, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researcher using laptop to check trailcam footage of Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) nest box in mature mixed forest. Near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researcher radio tracking Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) in mature mixed forest. Muraka Forest Reseve, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researchers carrying equipment prior to fitting nest box for Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans). Mature mixed forest, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researchers carrying ladder and nest boxes for Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans). Mature mixed forest, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researchers fitting Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) nest box to tree. Mature mixed forest, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researchers fitting Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) nest box to mature tree and recording position on GPS unit. Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Forester hanging Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) nest box in mature mixed forest, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Research team preparing to radio collar Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) caught in a trap. Muraka Forest Reserve, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researcher reviewing trailcam footage on laptop of Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) emerging from nest hole in Aspen (Populus tremula) tree at night. Mature mixed forest, near Lisaku, Estoni...

Nick Upton / Researcher examining Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) droppings. Mature mixed forest, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researcher wearing thick gloves collecting Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) from trap prior to fitting radio collar. Muraka Forest Reserve, Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researcher face to face with Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) whilst setting trap on old Aspen (Populus tremula) tree. Muraka Forest Reserve, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released...

Nick Upton / Researcher collecting Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) droppings below an old deciduous tree with an occupied nest hole. Muraka Forest Reserve, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model releas...

Nick Upton / Researcher examining and sexing Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) prior to fitting radio collar. Muraka Forest Reserve, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / Researcher inspecting a Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) caught in trap on old Aspen (Populus tremula) tree with occupied nest hole. Muraka Forest Reserve, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018....

Derek Galon / View from Portree road at Old Man of Storr on a frosty autumn morning. Skye, Scotland. October 2012

Bruno D'Amicis / Detail of centuries-old Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) covered in lichens and mosses. Val Cervara old-growth beech forest. Europe's oldest beech forest. Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park / Par...

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) on a tree in front of visitors, Foping Nature Reserve, Shaanxi, China. Endangered species

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Temperate cloud forest with Usnea lichens hanging from trees, near the glacier lake at Mount Bawu Bameng, Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan, China. October 2017.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Lichen covered (Usnea longissima) and lichen hanging from the trees in temperate cloud forest, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Lichen (Usnea Longissima) covered trees in temperate cloud forest, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Lichen covered (Usnea Longissima) and lichen hanging from the trees in temperate cloud forest, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Lichen (Usnea Longissima) covered trees in temperate cloud forest, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October 2017.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Temperate cloud forest with Lichen (Usnea longissima) near the glacier lake at Mount Bawu Bameng, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October 2017.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Temperate cloud forest with lichen (Usnea longissima) hanging from tree, near the glacier lake at Mount Bawu Bameng, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan, China. October.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Wild Wonders of China. team holding up their flag in the lichen-covered (Usnea longissima) temperate cloud forest, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Lichen (Usnea longissima) and other plants on tree trunk in cloud forest , near the glacier lake at Mount Bawu Bameng, Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Lichen (Usnea longissima) hanging from a tree. Temperate cloud forest sceneries, near the glacier lake at Mount Bawu Bameng, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan, China. October 2017.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Old gentleman, guardian of the sacred banyan fig trees, Tongbiguan Nature Reserve, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, May 2017.

Ashley Cooper / Sadhu or Hindu holy man in Kathmandu, Nepal. Sadhus are men who have renounced all material attachments to concentrate on their spirituality. January 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Men an Tol stone near St Just in Cornwall, UK. This late Neolithic monument is thuoght to have been part of a now disappeared stone circle or an entrance to an old burial chamber

Ashley Cooper / Lichen covered rocks on Swirl Howe, looking towards Dow Crag and Coniston Old Man. Above Wrynose, Lake District, Cumbria, England, UK, February 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Valley mist over Lake Windermere from Todd Crag looking towards Coniston Old Man. Lake District, England, UK, November.

Ashley Cooper / Stone stripes on Coniston Old Man in the Lake district, UK. These patterned ground features are caused by freeze thaw cycles which heaves the larger stones into lines down slope. January 2012

Ashley Cooper / The Broch of Borwick on the west coast of Mainland Orkney, Scotland, UK, thought to date from the first millenium BC and probably in use for over 1000 years.

Ashley Cooper / Dalit woman / untouchable woman in her hut, illuminated by an electric light, powered by an A4 sized solar panel, that charges a battery, and enables her to have light. Karnataka, India. December 2013

Ashley Cooper / Dalit woman / untouchable woman in her hut, illuminated by an electric light, powered by an A4 sized solar panel, that charges a battery, and enables her to have light. Karnataka, India. December 2013

Ashley Cooper / Old man with a low energy light bulb which he can use to power house with solar charged batteries from WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. Dece...

Ashley Cooper / Technicians work on Wymeswold Solar Farm the largest solar farm in the UK at 34 MWp, based on an old disused second world war airfield, Leicestershire, UK. It contains 130,000 panels and covers 150 ac...

Felis Images / Sikkim spruce (Picea spinulosa) branches with male (purple) and female (orange) cones covered in Usnea lichen. Lava, Bhutan.

Felis Images / Sikkim spruce (Picea spinulosa) branches with male (purple) and female (orange) cones covered in Usnea lichen. Lava, Bhutan.

Ashley Cooper / First Nation Canadians protest against the destruction and pollution of the Tar Sands industry at the 4th annual Healing Walk north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. August 2012

Ashley Cooper / Tuvaluans watching as the high tide inundates their island home on Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu. These low lying islands are very susceptible to sea level rise, March 2007

Ashley Cooper / Old ski club hut on the peak of Chacaltaya (5,395m), until 2009 Chacaltaya had a glacier which supported the worlds highest ski lift at over 17,000 feet. The glacier finally disappeared completely in...

Ashley Cooper / Man re-thatching old barn, Symondsbury, Dorset UK, June 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Man re-thatching old barn, Symondsbury, Dorset UK, June 2012.

Cyril Ruoso / Minden / Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) biologist, Elijah Mofya, measuring two month old chick, Bangweulu Wetlands, Zambia

Suzi Eszterhas / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) keepers with seven month old cubs, Bifengxia Panda Base, Sichuan, China

Jen Guyton / White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) pick at the drying and deflated skin of an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana) while spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) look on, Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. The hye...

Jen Guyton / Rüppell's griffon vultures (Gyps rueppelli) and white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) feed on an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana), Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. The elephant was killed by government...

Jen Guyton / White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) pick at an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana) while a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) looks on, Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. The hyena is tinted a reddish-brown f...

Jen Guyton / Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), Rüppell's griffon vultures (Gyps rueppelli) and white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) at the carcass of an elephant (Loxodonta africana), as the night and day shifts...

Jen Guyton / Rüppell's griffon vulture (Gyps rueppelli) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) pick at an elephant (Loxodonta africana) carcass at dawn, Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. This elephant was killed by governme...

Jen Guyton / A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) chases a flock of white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) away from an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana), Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. The hyenas are tinted a reddish...

Jen Guyton / White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) pick at the drying and deflated skin of an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana), Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. The hyenas are ti...

Ross Hoddinott / The Old Man of Storr, golden early morning light, the Trotternish peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK. November 2017.

Francisco Marquez / Man feeding wild Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) at night in City of Harar. This is a centuries old tradition. Ethiopia. February 2008.

Francisco Marquez / Man feeding wild Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) at night in City of Harar. This is a centuries old tradition. Ethiopia. February 2008.