Georgette Douwma / Manta ray {Manta birostris} feeding at surface, Sudan, Red Sea

Georgette Douwma / Manta rays filter feeding at sea surface, Red Sea off Sudan

Georgette Douwma / Sea and sky off, Sudan, Africa

Franco Banfi / Reef covered with soft coral,( Dendronephthya sp) and Black coral, (Antipathes sp) with shoal of Jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Soft coral (Dendronephthya sp) with shoal of Jewel fairy basslet, (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Shoal of Blackfin barracuda (Sphyraena qenie) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Reef and shoal of Jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Scuba diver and soft coral (Dendronephthya sp) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Scuba diver and soft coral (Dendronephthya sp) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Scuba diver and soft coral (Dendronephthya sp.) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Scuba diver and soft coral (Dendronephthya sp) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Shoal of Blackfin barracuda (Sphyraena qenie) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Lighthouse keepers, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Woman walking on the long staircase inside the Lighthouse, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / High angle view from Lighthouse, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / High angle view from Lighthouse, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Lined butterflyfish (Chaetodon lineolatus) North Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) North Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Soft coral (Chironephthya sp) North Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Marbled stingray (Taeniura meyeni) North Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Marbled stingray (Taeniura meyeni) North Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / San Marco Motor Sailing Yacht, Classic schooner-rigged two-masted caique, Sha'ab Rumi Reef, Sudan, Red Sea. May 2011.

Franco Banfi / Panoramic view of reef and pier from Lighthouse, Sanganeb Reef, Sudan, Red Sea. May 2011.

Nature Production / Elephantfish (Campylomormyrus tshokwe) native to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola

Sean Viljoen / Slow motion clip of a flock of Red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) flying at sunset, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

Sean Viljoen / Slow motion clip of a flock of Red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) flying at sunset, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

Sean Viljoen / Slow motion clip of a flock of Red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) flying at sunset, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) cub licking sibling, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) ten week old cubs, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) ten week old cub, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) ten week old cub, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) ten week old cub, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) ten week old cub hiding, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) ten week old cub snarling, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) ten week old cub snarling, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) mother licking cub, Landau, Germany

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sudan Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii), Landau, Germany

Pascal Kobeh / The wreck of a pick-up or a van in Shaab Suedi also called Toyota Reef, the reef where the Blue Bell / Belt sank in 1977 with its load of cars and vans, Red Sea, Sudan

Pascal Kobeh / Diver near the remains of Precontinent 2 in Shaab Rumi, an experimental underwater village built by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Calypso team in 1963, Sudan, Red Sea

Pascal Kobeh / The wreck of a pick-up or a van in Shaab Suedi also called Toyota Reef, the reef where the Blue Bell / Belt sank in 1977 with its load of cars and vans, Red Sea, Sudan

Pascal Kobeh / The wreck of a pick-up or a van in Shaab Suedi also called Toyota Reef, the reef where the Blue Bell / Belt sank in 1977 with its load of cars and vans, Red Sea, Sudan

Pascal Kobeh / Diver under the remains of Precontinent 2 in Shaab Rumi, an underwater community experiment led by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Calypso team in 1963, Sudan, Red Sea

Pascal Kobeh / The hold with three Fiat 1100 of the Umbria wreck, Sudan, Red Sea

Roland Seitre / Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis), Sudan

Pascal Kobeh / Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Pod of Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Group of Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) swimming above coral reef, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Two Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) swimming on above coral reef, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) above coral reef, cleaned by two Blue streaked cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus) among Jewel fairy basslets / anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Suda...

Pascal Kobeh / Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) swimming in open water, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Group of Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) swimming by coral drop off with divers in the background, Sudan. Red Sea. June 2013.

Pascal Kobeh / School of Blackfin barracudas (Sphyraena qenie) with Black surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Coral drop off with soft corals (Dendronephthya) and (Sarcophyton ), hard corals (Acropora) and (Porites) and Jewel fairy basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Coral drop off with hard corals possibly (Porites) and Kewel fairy basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Coral drop off with hard corals (Porites) and jewel fairy basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) and two-band anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) in a Mertens' sea anemone (Stichodactyla mertensii) Sudan...

Pascal Kobeh / Coral drop off with Soft corals (Dendronephthya) and (Scleronephthya) and Jewel fairy basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Blackfin barracudas (Sphyraena qenie) in open water cleaned by a Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Brown-marbled grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) laying on sandy sea floor, whilst cleaned by a Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) on reef, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Giant trevally / jack (Caranx ignobilis) in open water, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Group of Blackspotted sweetlips (Plectorhinchus gaterinus) on coral reef, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Pair of Masked butterflyfish (Chaetodon semilarvatus), pair of Red Sea bannerfish (Heniochus intermedius) and Blackspotted sweetlips (Plectorhinchus gaterinus) under a hard coral table (Acropora) Suda...

Pascal Kobeh / Giant triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens) building its nest, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Common lionfish (Pterois volitans) hiding behind a coral, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Longnose hawkfish (Oxycirrhites typus) in amongst seafan / gorgonian, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Arabian angelfish (Pomacanthus maculosus) on reef, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Rusty parrotfish (Scarus ferrugineus) sleeping at night, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Red coral crab (Tetralia cymodoce) at night, Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Smallscale scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephalus) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Bluestreak cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus) cleaning Bigeye emperor (Monotaxis grandoculis) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / Pair of Masked butterflyfish (Chaetodon semilarvatus), pair of Red Sea bannerfish (Heniochus intermedius) and Backspotted sweetlips (Plectorhinchus gaterinus) under a hard coral table (Acropora) Sudan...

Pascal Kobeh / Pair of Masked butterflyfish (Chaetodon semilarvatus) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / School of Blackfin barracudas (Sphyraena qenie) Sudan. Red Sea.

Pascal Kobeh / School of Blackfin barracudas (Sphyraena qenie) Sudan. Red Sea.

Denis-Huot / White-cheeked turaco (Tauraco leucotis) captive at zoo, occurs in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and South Sudan.

Richard Du Toit / Redbilled Quelea (Quelea quelea) massive flock, Kruger National Park, Limpopo Province, South Africa, October.

Denis-Huot / Red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) flock during migration, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Denis-Huot / Red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) flock during migration, Etosha National Park, Namibia

Michael Pitts / Diver on the wreck of the Italian cargo ship 'Umbria' looking at the Starboard propellor, scuttled in Port Sudan 10th June 1940, Red Sea, March 2008

Daniel Heuclin / Mauritanian spiny-tailed Lizard (Uromastyx dispar flavifasciata) Mauritania

Ann & Steve Toon / Northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) dehorned male called Sudan, watched over by armed guard, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya, Africa, September 2012

Jabruson / Gula women drawing water from well; these people are Magreb Arab descendants originally from Sudan. Precious water is drawn from a communal well each day by women and children in the village of Bon ne...

Jabruson / Gula boy drawing water from well; these people are Magreb Arab descendants originally from Sudan. Precious water is drawn from a communal well each day by women and children in the village of Bon near...

Jabruson / Gula woman with freshly drawn water from well. These people are Magreb Arab descendants originally from Sudan. Precious water is drawn from a communal well each day by women and children in Kashkasha...

Jabruson / Gula women drawing water from well, they are Magreb Arab descendants originally from Sudan. Precious water is drawn from a communal well each day by women and girls in the village of Bon, Zakouma Nat...

Thomas Rabeil / Sudan Golden Sparrow (Passer luteus) perched at seasonal waterhole. Termit Massif, Termit Tin Toumma National Park, Sahelo-Saharan Biome, Niger.

Thomas Rabeil / Sudan Golden Sparrow (Passer luteus) perched at seasonal waterhole. Termit Massif, Termit Tin Toumma National Park, Sahelo-Saharan Biome, Niger.

John Waters / View of the Pyramid Complex, Meroe, north Sudan

Bruno D'Amicis / Sudan black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina ceciliae) pair calling, vulnerable, Kaffa Zone, Southern Ethiopia, East Africa December 2008

Bruno D'Amicis / Sudan black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina ceciliae) in wetland, vulnerable, Kaffa Zone, Southern Ethiopia, East Africa December 2008

Bruno D'Amicis / Sudan black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina ceciliae) courtship display, vulnerable, Kaffa Zone, Southern Ethiopia, East Africa December 2008

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Blackspotted sweetlips (Plectorhynchus gaterinus) on coral, Sudan, Red Sea.

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Blackspotted sweetlips (Plectorhynchus gaterinus) on coral, Sudan, Red Sea.

Francis Abbott / Sanganeb lighthouse and atoll in the Red Sea, Sudan, situated 28 km to the NE of Port Sudan. One of the best diving locations in the Red Sea.

Rod Williams / Blue bellied roller (Coracias cyanogaster) perched on branch, Captive, found Senegal / Gambia east to Sudan

Tony Phelps / Nubian spitting cobra {Naja nubia} juvenile, captive, occurs Sudan and South Egypt