Terry Whittaker / Washing Common murre / guillemot (Uria aalge) eggs in sink before sale. Foraged from Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. May 2018.

Terry Whittaker / Washing Common murre / guillemot (Uria aalge) eggs in sink before sale. Foraged from Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. May 2018.

Mark Carwardine / Men cleaning oil containment booms during Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, USA, August 2010

Mark Carwardine / Men cleaning oil containment booms during Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, USA, August 2010

Cyril Ruoso / Margit cleaning down from Common eider (Somateria mollissima) with traditional harp tool whilst some dries in the sun, Lanan Island, Vega Archipelago, Norway June

Cyril Ruoso / Hildegunn Nordum using traditional harp tool to clean down collected from nests of Common eider (Somateria mollissima) Lanan Island, Vega Archipelago, Norway June

Pal Hermansen / White wagtail (Motacilla alba alba) nesting in cupboard in house, Lofoten, Norway, June.

Onne van der Wal / Cleaning the fishing reels at sunset on a sport fishing boat, Guatemala.

Pete Oxford / Collected nurdles, toxic plastic pellets, washed up ashore, after community based clean up. Betty's Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.

Pete Oxford / Collected nurdles, toxic plastic pellets, washed up ashore, after community based clean up. Betty's Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.

Bruce Thomson / Golden-tipped bat (Phoniscus papuensis) flying into a kitchen mop on a verandah where a colony is roosting, Ravenshoe, Queensland, Australia.

Eduardo Blanco / Sweeping up ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano eruption, La Palma, Canary Islands. September 2021

Eric Baccega / Keeper (Mrs. Mao Min) cleaning a female newborn Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in incubator. The baby is age 3 days, Beauval ZooPark, France. 4 August 2021

Neil Aldridge / Cages used for trapping European badgers (Meles meles) for vaccination against TB are sprayed with disinfectant. North Somerset, UK. Badger vaccination programmes are being carried out in England as a...

Neil Aldridge / Cages used for trapping European badgers (Meles meles) for vaccination against TB are cleaned. North Somerset, UK. Badger vaccination programmes are being carried out in England as a means of controll...

Neil Aldridge / Cages used for trapping European badgers (Meles meles) for vaccination against TB are scrubbed. North Somerset, UK. Badger vaccination programmes are being carried out in England as a means of control...

Neil Aldridge / Cages used for trapping European badgers (Meles meles) for vaccination against TB are sprayed with disinfectant. North Somerset, UK. Badger vaccination programmes are being carried out in England as a...

Neil Aldridge / Tyres of a Land Rover used for transporting equipment for trapping and vaccinating European badgers (Meles meles) against TB are sprayed with disinfectant. North Somerset, UK. Badger vaccination progr...