Jabruson / Bambuti pygmies cutting forest tree Epulu rainforest, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ashley Cooper / Men carrying timber illegally logged off the Zomba Plateau, Malawi. March 2015.

Ashley Cooper / Men carrying timber illegally logged off the Zomba Plateau, Malawi. March 2015.

Ashley Cooper / Men carrying timber illegally logged off the Zomba Plateau, Malawi. March 2015.

Cyril Ruoso / Two Baka men collecting honey from inside tree, South East Cameroon, July 2008.

Eric Baccega / Nenet woman chopping willow (Salix genus) at camp for firewood. Yar-Sale district. Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia. April 2016.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ruslana Votgyrgina, a young Chukchi girl, using a hatchet to chop firewood at a reindeer herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, August 2013.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ruslana Votgyrgina, a young Chukchi girl, using a hatchet to chop firewood at a reindeer herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, August 2013.

Marten Dalfors / Logging machine chopping down snow covered conifer trees at twilight, Sweden.

Niall Benvie / Cooking herbs, including mint and parsley, on chopping board

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / RSPB volunteers chopping and bagging up firewood for distribution to local community at Christmas, Abernethy Forest NNR, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, December 2011

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / RSPB volunteers chopping and bagging up firewood for distribution to local community at Christmas, Abernethy Forest NNR, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, December 2011

Juergen Freund / Slash and burn deforestation on Palawan island, Philippines, April 2010. A growing population of migrants to Palawan has made slash-and-burn farming a widespread practice. It involves chopping down fo...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Young Nenets woman chopping Willow (Salix genus) to be used for firewood. Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia, 2000.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets woman chopping wood with axe at Reindeer / Caribou herders' winter camp. Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1993.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Forestry worker stripping bark off Pine (Pinus) logs near Gus-Zheleznyy. Ryazan Province, Russia, 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Forestry workers stripping bark off Pine (Pinus) logs near Gus-Zheleznyy. Ryazan Province, Russia, 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter chopping frozen Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) meat to feed to Huskies (Canis familiaris) on hunting trip. Northwest Greenland, 1980.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Cree woman chopping firewood at winter camp. Lake Bourinot, Canada, 1988.

Gary K. Smith / Fresh mixed vegetables: Broccoli, Celery, Carrots, Cauliflower and Green Pepper on kitchen chopping board

Patricio Robles Gil / Sugar Cane worker using machete to cut down cane, Fiji, South Pacific

Patricio Robles Gil / Woman harvesting and chopping firewood, Ethiopia

Patricio Robles Gil / Woman harvesting and chopping firewood, Ethiopia

Mark Moffett / Marauder Ant (Pheidologeton diversus) major worker chopping off head of intruder ant

Gerry Ellis / African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) fruit being harvested in small plantation in rainforest, western Cameroon

Petr Hlavacek / Glacier guide chopping steps in an ice cave, Franz Josef Glacier, Westland National Park, New Zealand

Onne van der Wal / Local old man in Vanuatu with machete, pipe and loin cloth chopping plantains. Pacific Islands.

Ugo Mellone / Woman from the Wiwa community cutting wood for cooking in village, El Encanto, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. December, 2021.

Ugo Mellone / Woman from the Wiwa community cutting wood for cooking in village, El Encanto, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. December, 2021.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / A python being butchered at the Tomohon food market, north of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The market sells wild animals for human consumption.